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I’ll be up for this shindig depenind on how things are going, so I can confirm in a few days when I know what time I’ll be finishing up at. What time are you thinking of for a meal?
Jamie
Idora,
That didn’t come out the way I was hoping it would, and I’m too hungover to think clearly to figure out what I was trying to say.
Has anyone in Ireland ever produced a console game ?[/quote:3e9779871b]
Yes they have, Funcom did Speed Freaks on the PSOne when they were still based in Sandyford, I’m sure there have to be some of the old Funcom lads knocking around, surely we could get in touch with some of them if anyone has a contact.
Jamie
My point I suppose is, the Irish Gaming community need to be aware of all resources at our disposal. So to be fair its not SONYs fault. Good luck to them.[/quote:f1f9a070ce]
Sorry I’ve been away from the boards for a while, Xbox Live and other comittments have gotten in the way for the last few weeks.
In relation to this whole GAA discussion which seems to be going a little off the topic at the moment, I just had my own two cents to throw in as I knew what the situation was going back to 2000. The GAA licence for a PS2 game WAS given to an Irish developer called Pooka Games, and as far as I was aware had started work on a generic GAA game engine that would allow for ports of Football, Hurling and Handball. However, the bubble burst and money got pulled out. Then I do believe that Pooka had been in touch with EA in the UK about a possibility of a publishing deal, but I think this fell through in the end.
It seems to be a simple case that in fairness the GAA DID offer the licence to an Irish company, but as they didn’t do anything with it their licence expired. As this came to nothing, do you blame Sony for getting in there and giving it to an Aussie developer?
The whole argument that seems to be boiling over by my reading of this and related threads is that the GAA should have given it to an Irish team. They did, the Irish team did nothing with it and now it’s down under.
From the business point of view which seems to be overlooked so far in this whole discussion, why has nobody mentioned the fact that an Irish development team could have very easily gone to the GAA with a proposal and had a very good chance to do so. It seems that there will be only one official Gaa game (the PS2 one) which didn’t seem to have any competition getting the licence, and then this other proposed GPA one which looks equally as interesting to me.
There’s no point bitching about what’s happened because it’s there now, and there’s nothing we can do about it, but at least there will be a GAA game released, no matter where it’s from.
Jamie
I don’t see that working with a Paddy Smith though
Although Smithtronic Patrikz is about the only attempt I could make. Aphraid works very well though, might nick that one.
Jamie
I finish at around 8pm on Friday, so I’ll be fairly close by on Grafton St. I’ll try and get down after work then
Jamie
Well there has been background to this going on for years, so now that it’s out in the open i’ll give you a bit of information on it to the best of of my knowledge.
A few years ago, a company called Pooka Games was granted the licence for the GAA titles, and they did start work on a GAA game engine for use in both a Hurling & Football game. However, funding for the game got pulled when the bubble burst and things were left in the air. What i imagine happened then is that the licence expired, and considering that the Aussies already have a game engine and game developed for their compromise rules games, which is pretty similar to the GAA engine required, that it worked out more economic to shift it down under instead of building up the game from scratch here with an inexperienced development team.
Jamie
Well Aphra,
There’s a challange for you now, just contact the Department of Communications and see if Mr. Ahern will be willing to put his money where his mouth is and invite him to attend one of the events, speakers nights or whatever. Considering he’s so happy to blag about the fantastic industry we have here maybe he might want to find out who’s actually working in the industry and see their problems.
Jamie
Well maybe he might be interested in attending one of the shindigs to actually talk to developers instead of jetting around the world just to say ‘oh yes, that looks nice, we’ll have to do that’.
Also last weeks latters page had a debate on female gamers, and Aphra they commended your latest piece of work.
Jamie
