Ivan
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« on: January 09, 2009, 11:48:01 AM » |
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Well hello there. Now that this has been posted on the front page, I thought I'd make a thread for TigBox. TigBox was an idea that me, Jeff and Derek discussed at last year's GDC as a sort of "Steam" for indie games. It was all pretty theoretical up until a couple of weeks ago when the advances in TigDB's API made it possible to put together a quick prototype. Here is the first alpha release. It doesn't work very well yet, but it should give you an idea of what's to come. There are a lot of games that won't install or run properly, mostly because they're pulled from inconsistent sources, hosted all over the place and a lot of them make it impossible to auto-install. We'll work on trying to get that stuff cleaned up and ironed out. I'll be updating it pretty heavily in the next few days, seeing how its pretty broken right now. The immediate features that will be added in order of importance are: - A mandatory autoupdate system that will download the latest version of the client upon launch. - A way to remove games (  ) - More comprehensive search options Anyway, forgive the bugginess (Jeff totally bullied me into releasing it early), and let us know what features you would like to see happen and feel free to post whatever bugs you may find in this thread. (Don't post bugs about games not installing though. I know it's like the point of the app, but it's not something that can be fixed quickly). |
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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2009, 11:54:55 AM » |
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ooh. just going to check this out now...
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« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2009, 11:55:12 AM » |
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I'm chekin' it out right now.
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« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2009, 01:00:03 PM » |
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This is going to be incredibly sweet. I love name of it.
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« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2009, 01:01:05 PM » |
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Is there a mac version?
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Ivan
Owl Country
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alright, let's see what we can see
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« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2009, 01:03:31 PM » |
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Is there a mac version?
Not currently, but it's written in a very cross-platform way, so there will definitely be one at some point in the future. |
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« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2009, 01:15:40 PM » |
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So does this just pull games from TigDB?
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« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2009, 01:16:24 PM » |
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It is supposed to do something, isn't it?
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« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2009, 01:17:09 PM » |
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Oh yeah, awesome!
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Alex May
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« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2009, 01:19:22 PM » |
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This is the dawn of a new indie era. I'm calling it now.
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« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2009, 01:21:48 PM » |
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I think this is a superb idea, i have been thinking about the same lately. A steam app with close connection to the TIGdb. It would bee sweet with some neat payment system so you can use it as a serious distrubution platform for indies that want to make a living on their games. That and the close connection to TIGSource and TIGdb would make this the number one place for indie games in the future.
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« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2009, 01:32:12 PM » |
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Is there a mac version?
Not currently, but it's written in a very cross-platform way, so there will definitely be one at some point in the future. Nice avatar! What was the name of that artist? I just saw this news on the front page of offworld! Direct link to the news |
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Ivan
Owl Country
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alright, let's see what we can see
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« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2009, 01:42:48 PM » |
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Nice avatar! What was the name of that artist?
Hajime Sorayama |
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Alex May
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« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2009, 01:53:08 PM » |
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The app crashed when i tried to launch Warning Forever after installing it. Or maybe it hadn't installed yet? I assume that they only actually appear after installation is complete. They should show up as downloading before that really - double clicking a game just takes me to the "your games" page and nothing apparently to happens (even though in my heart, I know it's contacting the web server and gettin ghte download info etc). Anyway I couldn't get any info out of visual studio so I can't give you more infos, sorry.
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« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2009, 02:03:06 PM » |
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Aww, the app itself crashes immediately at launch for me.  So! Is it going to support ACHIEVEMENTS? That's all I care about nowadays.  |
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« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2009, 02:04:12 PM » |
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Well, it doesn't run in my Vista.
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« Reply #16 on: January 09, 2009, 02:09:23 PM » |
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Ugh, that means it won't run on the family computer. |
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« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2009, 02:10:44 PM » |
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Ah, it's running. Very cool. EXTREMELY promising.
Great idea.
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Ivan
Owl Country
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alright, let's see what we can see
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« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2009, 02:12:46 PM » |
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I think that all the crashing is due to some weird conflict with the common controls library that i'm linking against.
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« Reply #19 on: January 09, 2009, 02:18:58 PM » |
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Ah, it's running. Very cool. EXTREMELY promising.
Great idea.
Are any games installing or downloading for you? |
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