Comments on: Brave New iPhone World

By: moomalade › Power of Two Games calls it quits

moomalade › Power of Two Games calls it quits — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:19:20 +0000

[...] of Two Games has called it quits. I’ll miss following the Pow2 adventure and the references to Monkey Island. I’m sure [...]

By: Streaming Colour Studios » Blog Archive » Goodbye, Power of 2!

Streaming Colour Studios » Blog Archive » Goodbye, Power of 2! — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:50:56 +0000

[...] Brave New iPhone World (gamesfromwithin.com) – This is the blog of Noel, one of two developers who made up Power of 2 Games. This is his post about shutting down Po2G and how he is now going to try to make an iPhone App. [...]

By: Scott Brooks

Scott Brooks — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:45:43 +0000

I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on Obj-C vs C++.

Are you planning a small Obj-C wrapper around your C/C++ code? Or all Obj-C?

By: Alex McCarthy

Alex McCarthy — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:07:34 +0000

Hey Noel,

I’ve read your tips and tricks on Games from Within and Power of Two Games for a couple of years now. While I’m sorry to hear that PoTG didn’t work out, I’m glad that you haven’t stopped filling the internet with C++ goodness

Feeds updated,
Alex

By: Noel

Noel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:13:35 +0000

Thanks for all the encouragement everybody! Yes, those t-shirts will be priceless one day, and they did help to keep us alive just a bit longer Seriously, many thanks to all those who supported us.

By: Stephane

Stephane — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:24:33 +0000

Hi Noel,

Sorry that it did not work out for you and Charles. Say Hi to Charles btw. Good luck on the iPhone. I think that one may very well work.

By: Dan Glastonbury

Dan Glastonbury — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:17:00 +0000

Re: Demise of pow2.

Didn’t I buy enough T-shirts?

By: Ben Hymers

Ben Hymers — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:28:18 +0000

I’ve very sorry to hear of Power of Two’s demise. Despite not having seen any of your work, reading about some of your methods has been a great inspiration to me. I look forward to some kind of post-mortem, and hope you continue writing up snippets of development knowledge!

Best of luck with iPhone development though, I’m sure you’ll blow those useless apps out of the water.

By: Dirk

Dirk — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:45:20 +0000

Hi Noel,

sad to hear that you quit PowerOf2Games. Maybe you want to consider making your engine open source or at least some modules. Since you are a professional developer it might be an interesting addition with high educational value. You might even write a book again. Just some thoughts I had when reading your post.

All the best,
-Dirk

By: Christopher Myburgh

Christopher Myburgh — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:22:29 +0000

Dreamcast, seriously? Ok guilty as charged for not doing his homework

Well if I ever have to commute to work again I’ll be sure to get an iPhone and buy your games. Until then though gaming just doesn’t feel quite right to me unless I’m in front of a big TV with a gamepad.

Sorry to hear Power of Two Games didn’t work out but I am really interested to see the postmortem. A buddy of mine and I are exploring options for opening a two-man studio of our own so I’m always on the look out for postmortems from indie projects and accounts of experiences with XBLA and PSN dev (as well as royalty and certification hell ).

By: Magnus

Magnus — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:30:31 +0000

Sad to hear about the end of “Power of Two games”. At least the t-shirt I own will be worth a fortune . And I can’t wait to read your post-mortem, although I would have been much more interested in your first release.

Good luck with the IPhone adventure!

By: Josh Szepietowski

Josh Szepietowski — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:18:12 +0000

Sad to hear about Power of Two Games. I will be looking forward to the postmortem on that. While it may be true that you “don’t have any office politics, bosses to suck up to, or publishers to keep happy” it is also true that anything that went wrong is much more sitting on your plate. I am just hoping that won’t stop you from really letting us know the bad things.

Please keep writing! Your articles about TDD, build systems, le chimp, and random C++ tricks have really made an impact on the way I program (for the better).

By: Noel

Noel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:51:35 +0000

Sad panda? Why? Seriously, handheld games doesn’t mean it’s shovelware or lower quality (although there are lots of those out there). One of the really fun things about the iPhone is that it’s pretty close to a Dreamcast as far as hardware specs goes. So how much fun is that? A one-man band making Dreamcast games and maybe even seeing a penny for it? Pretty exciting if you ask me!

By: Christopher Myburgh

Christopher Myburgh — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:34:46 +0000

Noel in handheld games…? That makes me a sad panda

While I personally have zero interest in games for phones or even handheld consoles (as a gamer or as a wannabe game developer [I'm still young and naive]), if it makes you happy then I wish you all the luck in the world.