I heard that color dmd will give you there software and let you colorize dmd images so you can give them your code and they will give you royalty so does annoy one have any info
I heard that color dmd will give you there software and let you colorize dmd images so you can give them your code and they will give you royalty so does annoy one have any info
I would like to start with no good gofers and Mabey moving on to monster bash twilight zone and Indiana jones Williams
Monster Bash and Indiana Jones are complete. Twilight Zone is in progress, so basically as far as I know No Good Gofers is still yours for the picking.
Monster bash and Indiana Jones are already in color.
Xmen will look good in color and I have a colordmd for mine.
hint hint
Quoted from dmbjunky:Bugs Bunny's Birthday Bash
Step one: convert game to use a DMD
Step two: create all new dots and animations
Step three: create ColorDMD support
Easy-Peazy
Keep in mind, colorizing a game sounds to be a several months-long endeavor at the very least.
If you're serious enough to commit to that, great, it's always good to see another colorized game. If not, no worries, it's not a project for everyone.
You want to do work for ColorDMD but you didn't even know they've already done Indiana Jones and Monster Bash?
Direct from their faq
"We invite others to join the coloring effort. Coloring games can be a long and arduous process, and requires training and support to use our tools. Most games present unique challenges that require ingenuity to achieve desired results from our coloring engine. Some may require that we make enhancements to the engine! If you're willing to invest the time and think you are up to the challenge, please contact us."
The problem here is that they have a closed system. They could have easily had a magnitudes larger number of games supported by crowd sourcing the effort. This doesn't go against their revenue model as you still require their hardware. The risk to them might be that their tools and existing colorised games get reused by something like smartdmd.
Ideally having the colorised work public would atleast allow a multi person/distributed community created colorisation process that colordmd could then review and create the compiled(?) firmware version which includes it. It should be a win/win for colordmd. They get more games with full color. End users/devs can help speed up the process.
Quoted from koops:The problem here is that they have a closed system.
It's a closed system because of various complications. Just about every game presents new problems to solve as far as efficiently recognizing what's on the screen and applying color correctly (The reason TZ is still not done is because of how complex it is), so there's a lot of back and forth between those working on color and the ColorDMD guys themselves as they work out solutions, alter the main system code to add new features, etc. There's also the matter of support. They built the tools for themselves originally, not mass consumption, so things may not be documented well enough for general use or obvious enough to figure out, etc.
The colorDMD method of adding color isn't as simple as opening up the assets and coloring them (like SmartDMD), there's a lot of hoops to jump through and puzzles to solve. Opening that up to anyone and everyone would just be a mess. Nevermind that a huge percentage of people that would SAY they'd color a game aren't actually willing to put in the work anyway.
Quoted from tytydell:I do have acces to No Good Gofers
I would buy a color dmd for NGG!
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