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[Theophilus]

Will the next generation gaming consoles turn out being the same re-cycled ideas and concepts? With the same updated graphics, new powerful hardware and recycled games thus bringing nothing truly revolutionary, innovative or fresh to the gaming genre? What do gamers want? Gamers crave challenge, unlimited game content, low cost games, and high quality games that won’t put them in the poor house! The wait is over - EnGeniux OTON X is coming!

[s0]

[Manuel Magalhães]

I can't wait to play Super Tux on it!

[mono]

The Oton is the future of indie game development.

[Aik]

They should really manipulate the backers bar/numbers to make it look more popular.

Although if they haven't, that means that 10 people are stupid enough to have given them money...

[GhostBomb]

Pfffffff, you guys are all suckers.  You can keep your "special programming skills".  With the OTON, I'll be making the next Portal in mere minutes- nay, SECONDS!

[ClayB]

welp, the mortgage can wait!

can't wait to boot this up so I can turn  into 

[gimymblert]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mojobones/gametron-1000

[Christian Knudsen]

Far from a simple collection of mini-games

Except that's exactly what it is. I'm not sure how interested I am in infinite games!!!, if they're all just randomly generated, poorer versions of already existing really simple games.

[GhostBomb]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mojobones/gametron-1000

At least this admits that it's just taking a bunch of preset game elements and mashing them together randomly.

[Maud'Dib Atreides]

now my favorite programming language is plain english : DD

i should change my major, english majors are going to be game design majors

[Tanner]

Twine and Inform come pretty dang close to plain English.

[Blademasterbobo]

it just causes a lot more syntax errors, since it's harder to remember which words work and which don't

[s0]

it just causes a lot more syntax errors, since it's harder to remember which words work and which don't

in a way it's pretty cool how the experience of writing a text adventure is pretty much the same as playing one.

[Nathan Cash]

"We know OTON is a shock to some people, and I want to offer a money-back guarantee. I am confident that OTON can produce 1k unique 2D or 3D game levels. If it does not, you will get your money back, period!"

It doesn't seem like a con to me... But that's just what I think

[TheLastBanana]

How does that prove that it's not a con? I promise you I'll send you 1000 dollars right now. Serious. Internet promise. It's like a pinky swear, except way more legit.

[Blademasterbobo]

if you send me $1000 i will literally make you a game with over one million procedurally generated levels, no joke

$1000 for an hour's worth of work?

[Netsu]

"We know OTON is a shock to some people, and I want to offer a money-back guarantee. I am confident that OTON can produce 1k unique 2D or 3D game levels. If it does not, you will get your money back, period!"

It doesn't seem like a con to me... But that's just what I think

One thousand unique game levels?!?! WOW that's like... almost the number of possible 1x1x2 block chunks in Minecraft

[Nathan Cash]

How does that prove that it's not a con? I promise you I'll send you 1000 dollars right now. Serious. Internet promise. It's like a pinky swear, except way more legit.

Deal! Cant wait to get $1000 :D

[SolarLune]

So I guess this is coming out now?

I can only imagine it's not really going to literally generate an entire game from scratch. I'm gonna guess it's going to have templates (shooter, platformer, racing game), modifiers (top-down 2D, behind the back 3D), and themes (pixel art, realistically shaded, cartoon-ish graphics / sounds, etc). It'll probably randomly generate a world to do stuff in, and then you can edit it from there (again, guessing).

The site mentions you'll be able to mod your game to work with Windows, Linux, and Android (no Mac support ), which sounds nice, but that sounds like you have to specifically make an OTON game first to port to those platforms. However, the OTON OS is based off of Ubuntu and the specs page shows different actual games in the mock-up like Trine 2 and Doom 3, so I assume they intend to support actual "hand-made" games as well. I'm guessing they mean that from an OTON game, you'll be able to do things to push them to those other platforms, but OTON-compatible games can also come from existing platforms?

No idea if it'll work out or not. Specs aren't bad, I don't think, but the quad-core CPU seems weird and unnecessary a bit, right? I mean, a more powerful dual-core CPU would be modest enough, but most engines don't support quad-core CPUs that well, to my knowledge.

The gesture cameras could be interesting if they work really well, but they're not in all models, which is an odd choice. Anyway, not sure how they're going to pull this off.

A genuinely Linux-based console sounds a bit interesting because it'd be easy to port to, but there's no mention of a graphics card on the specs page, so I dunno about that.