RealArcade/Platypus 2 Rant

Some time back, i wrote about Anthony Flack and his games with clay graphics. One of them being Platypus, a awesome shooter with awesome graphics and a whole lot other awesomeness in it. Something i didn’t mention tho’, is the the fact that Anthony sold the rights for the game to Idigicon, a rather big player in games at that time – seven years ago. Yes, the game is really that old… not bad at all considering when it was made and that a single person developed it.

Well, as it turns out… RealArcade has released a sequel without any credit given to Anthony about it – they didn’t even let him know about it. They do own the rights to the game, but doing such a pure income-oriented business move is just wrong. I stronly believe that companies thinking with their hearts will survive the companies thinking with their accounts, and RealArcade is blacklisted in my book now.

Money isn’t everything, RealArcade.

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2 Responses to “RealArcade/Platypus 2 Rant”

  1. Ben Says:
    February 11, 2007 at 1:24 pm | Reply

    Just to clear a couple of things up… Idigicon were never big in games. They published lots of games developed in Blitz, but not much else. Their main business is print and educational software.

    I don’t hav any hard facts on this but I was under the impression that Mumbo Jumbo owned Platypus now – Real are just a publisher, not a developer. Mumbo Jumbo released the PSP version of platypus, and the person who bought platypus from Anthony now recently moved from England, to the US to work for them.

    I doubt Real know anything about any of this. Also when it comes to business money IS everything.

    FWIW I don’t agree with what happened either.

  2. Anders Linder Says:
    February 11, 2007 at 9:06 pm | Reply

    Right – when I was speaking about big in games, I wasn’t talking mainstream games, I was talking about Shareware games, but I should’ve clarified that – my apologies. I never said anything about who developed the game though, as i haven’t looked deeper in that matter.

    Note that this blog post was a quick one to air out my thoughts, not to give anyone a thoroughly insight in the matter, I’ll leave that to the readers interested enough to do the research.

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