Home › Forums › Business and Legal › New GAA game
- This topic has 18 replies, 10 voices, and was last updated 18 years, 4 months ago by
Anonymous.
-
AuthorPosts
-
-
June 10, 2005 at 8:09 am #4208
Anonymous
InactiveWas talking to a colleague of mine about this new GAA game that’s in development. Can anyone recall where the thread for this discussion was? I seem to remember the issue was addressed on these boards some time ago.
To our legal eagles, am I right in assuming the game would not use official team names and players, as one-off / royalty payments to these teams would complicate their amateur status?
Lewis
-
June 10, 2005 at 8:45 am #21925
Anonymous
InactiveThe story way back when was that there were 2 GAA games. One had the backing of the GAA and one had the backing of the Players Association. So I guess one of them would have had real pitch and possibly team names, but not player names, while the other would have fake pitches, real teams and real players?
-
June 10, 2005 at 8:54 am #21928
Anonymous
InactiveThanks Damo. Any Idea where the thread is?
-
June 10, 2005 at 9:29 am #21935
Anonymous
InactiveHaha….I went to General and picked a random page and found it first go :)
-
June 10, 2005 at 9:33 am #21936
Anonymous
InactiveLooks like Skyclad is the man to talk to about it. He seemed to have inside information at the time.
-
June 10, 2005 at 9:36 am #21937
Aphra K
Keymasterwasn’t it being made by a company in Australia for Sony? They were going to reuse an Aussie rules engine..
should be nearly finished by now..
Aphra.
-
June 10, 2005 at 9:40 am #21938
Anonymous
InactiveThankyou all.
-
June 10, 2005 at 10:39 am #21945
Anonymous
Inactiveshould be nearly finished by now.[/quote:5795119204]
I think I remember reading that the game had been canned. May actually have seen the news on these boards, can’t find it though. Realistically, would it even sell one copy outside of Ireland?It’s a shame, I think it could make for an exciting game. Or at least something different from the onslaught of EA Sports titles.
-
June 10, 2005 at 10:49 am #21947
Anonymous
InactiveThey should bill it as a Fantasy sport rather than an irish sport :)
If you can sell quiddich….
Get EA to publish it and I’m sure the marketing department could make a go of it. See EA do have their uses :) -
June 10, 2005 at 10:54 am #21949
Anonymous
InactiveThey should bill it as a Fantasy sport rather than an irish sport :)
If you can sell quiddich….
Get EA to publish it and I’m sure the marketing department could make a go of it. See EA do have their uses :)[/quote:f21d0ebdfd]
EA Presents….An exciting game where the evil leprechauns are plotting to win the salmon of knowledge from the local drunks. Play for pride, honour, and pride..!
-
June 10, 2005 at 12:35 pm #21961
Anonymous
InactiveIf you can sell quiddich….
Get EA to publish it and I’m sure the marketing department could make a go of it. See EA do have their uses :)[/quote:540d7e8061]have my eyes deceived me?!! or did you just kind sorta compliment EA?!!!!!!!!!! -
June 14, 2005 at 1:47 pm #22093
Anonymous
InactiveI was working for a while on a GAA related project and met with senior members of both the GAA and EA sports. I would like to write an article for this site about the experience would anyone be interested in reading it? who should I contact on this site for advice how to submit the work etc?
-
June 14, 2005 at 1:53 pm #22094
Anonymous
InactiveI was working for a while on a GAA related project and met with senior members of both the GAA and EA sports. I would like to write an article for this site about the experience would anyone be interested in reading it? who should I contact on this site for advice how to submit the work etc?[/quote:336268b874]
yeah tis worth a read alright. skyclad can probably hook ya up.
-
June 14, 2005 at 2:00 pm #22095
Anonymous
InactiveHi Lewis,
To add to what others have said. It was also my understanding that the ‘project’ went south to Aus to be done by a company with an Aussie rules engine. There was an Irish company looking to do the work but it went abroad for probably more than one reason. I think that Irish company does still have the rights to player’s names etc through the GPA so not sure how that might affect the game. Obviously, a GAA game without player’s names wouldn’t have the same impact.
Alan
Was talking to a colleague of mine about this new GAA game that’s in development. Can anyone recall where the thread for this discussion was? I seem to remember the issue was addressed on these boards some time ago.
To our legal eagles, am I right in assuming the game would not use official team names and players, as one-off / royalty payments to these teams would complicate their amateur status?
Lewis[/quote:96d2e1d701]
-
June 14, 2005 at 3:03 pm #22098
Anonymous
Inactivehave my eyes deceived me?!! or did you just kind sorta compliment EA?!!!!!!!!!![/quote:d2ee73d2e4]
Gotta hand it to them, their marketing is second to none.And I’ve been playing Battlefield and battlefield 2, really quite good
-
June 28, 2005 at 3:50 pm #22587
Jamie Mc
KeymasterI think that Irish company does still have the rights to player’s names etc through the GPA so not sure how that might affect the game. [/quote:87b55ae598]
Pooka Games (now gone) had the original licence for the GAA title but as far as I heard, it never went anywhere past the prototype stage (for funding) and the licence reverted back to the GAA. It was my understanding that indeed Sony had bought the licence for the official GAA game, which was being developed by one of their Australian studios who had created some Aussie rules titles , but I was also under the assumption that the GPA title was more along the line of a Championship Manager kind of game.
Jamie
-
June 28, 2005 at 7:54 pm #22591
Anonymous
Inactive -
June 28, 2005 at 10:54 pm #22593
Anonymous
InactiveWould it really make a difference if the game didn’t have real team names? (As far as I know) none of the teams actually have a nickname. It’s not like you’d be playing as the Manchester Devils or London Blues. It would still be Antrim, Donegal, Armagh, etc.
-
July 11, 2005 at 11:34 pm #22949
Anonymous
Inactive
-
-
AuthorPosts
- The forum ‘Business and Legal’ is closed to new topics and replies.