3DS doesn’t have the depth of field that VB has, that’s for sure. It can actually render things to fully pop out the screen but it’s not best practice at all.
Heh, I’m no writer – I wouldn’t want to even judge on story I’m afraid, sorry for the misunderstanding.
I can help out with graphics, but I’m not a professional artist or anything. I’ll post up some VB-related art when I can for people to see if they like.
Oh – the reason I didn’t want to assist with Insecticide is that right now I’m way, way too busy and this is VirtualChris’s pet project. I’d love to help if I could but I know I can’t do much this time around. If there’s a new project built from the ground up, I could definitely assist and pre-plan accordingly.
I’d be happy to help Chris with any art related tidbits, though I feel Morintari and Virtual Ben have this covered.
I didn’t necessarily want to mention before – but I work in the video game industry professionally and can help with a base project if we do it properly from the ground up with a full GDD made up and all sorts. It’ll take time but if you’re going to do a project properly it really needs a producer, artist, writer, coders and testers at the least.
I struggle to find the time to finish my own home projects so I will bear this in mind for a future project, but right now I’m not much use.
If you look at something like Fez, a good indie benchmark – it’s taken these three guys years on their own so far. It would be a year-long project at the least to get something worthwhile. Cave Story took Daisuke Amaya independently 5 years to develop and test so I would suggest picking a good demo up like VBRacing or TRON and going from there, but that’s just my two cents.
Before I get any questions asking – I don’t have a high-profile job or anything, but I am familiar with how some AAA projects are started and run and common factors of success and failure (or so I’d like to think)…
Enough people do it for NES and SNES that I can’t foresee it being a problem. If Gamestop started selling them then Nintendo might get in touch, but it’s not going to land you in hot water.
If you want to be 100% sure – get legal advice but it’s money down the drain as they’ll only say it’s safer not to by default – it’s the standard lawyer’s disclaimer.
I know what you’re saying, but what if Nintendo were working on some plans to bring Virtual Boy to the 3DS VC? What if, as part of the marketing campaign they decided – hey, let’s turn this ugly son into a great thing and stick that Griffon Jumper game we finished on there – the press would love that and write stories on to celebrate and not spend so much time talking about how it failed. That could be good, right?
My point is, they’re not kept in drawers to be never released, but because they think they might be useful one day, somehow.
To me it makes absolute sense that these would be Blockbuster cases that were either earlier than the officially badged ones, or later when the licensing deal ran out perhaps.
Maybe there was a run that just weren’t badged up due to a maufacturing guff-up.
Has anyone asked TravelMaster? Do they still trade?
lol, I keep mine on my desk with a bag over it’s head to keep it dust-free. It goes back in the box, in a storage box when not in use though. Nothing fancy 🙂
