Join us for a live Q&A; session about (url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/games/coldstone/")Coldstone(/url), the game creation engine for Mac OS 9/X, at 4pm EST on Thursday March 7th! The creator of Coldstone, Beenox's Dee Brown will be there to field your questions, along with Ambrosia's el Presidente, Andrew Welch. To get in on the chat, simply point your IRC client at:

irc.ambrosia.net

...and join #coldstone

For more information on IRC, please visit (url="http://"http://www.irchelp.org/")http://www.irchelp.org/(/url)

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Andrew Welch / el Presidente / Ambrosia Software, Inc.
Some people's minds are like cement: all mixed up and permanently set...

Well, normally, I'd turn up, but just comparing time zones..... that's 6am here, and at 7am I leave for a Biology Practical / Tutorial that goes for four hours.... probably better if i abstain from this one. Have fun anyway, guys. If I think of anything I want to know, I'll try to get one of you a list of questions for me.

-Andiyar

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"Any good that I may do here, let me do now, for I may not pass this way again"

Send it on to me, Ben. I should be able to come. I'll be there, andrew!

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"I believe in the sun, even when it is night. I believe in love, even when I do not feel it. And I believe in God, even when he does not reveal his prescence."
-A survivor of the Holocaust

Dang, thats noon over here, and I have school.
I hope you save a chat log so that those who missed it can still read it.

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"Dont be angry, not everyone can be as cool as me."
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Excellent. I should be there, unless work turns real ugly.

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"Good...Bad...I'm the one with the gun. Kaboom!"
-- Ash, Army of Darkness

Someone should log it, and send it to everyone who can't make itÉ or maybe they could post it on the CGE Addons page.

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The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason Ń Wizard's Sixth Rule, Faith of the Fallen.
Ń Cafall

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Originally posted by andrew:
**The creator of Coldstone, Beenox's Dee Brown will be there to field your questions, along with Ambrosia's el Presidente, Andrew Welch.

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And me! I'm l33t.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, as you know we have something special for you at
Birdland this evening. A recording for Blue Note Records...
"Actions have reactions, don't be quick to judge, you may not know the hardships people don't speak of,
It's best to step back, and observe with couth, for we all must meet our moment of truth." - (url="http://"http://www.OHHLA.com/anonymous/gngstarr/moment/moment.gsr.txt")Guru(/url)

I'll be there... I'm l33t too... whatever that is...

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-TheDarkDragon
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."-Jebadiah Springfield

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Originally posted by Cafall:
**Someone should log it, and send it to everyone who can't make itÉ or maybe they could post it on the CGE Addons page.

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I've got logging turned on, so will capture a transcript. If the mailing list is set up by then that would be a nice place to distribute the transcript as well.

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"Good...Bad...I'm the one with the gun. Kaboom!"
-- Ash, Army of Darkness

How long will this last? Because of my time zone, I won't be home until 45 minutes after it starts? Can I just post my question here?

Post it here or you can email it to me(address is in the email button above) and it will get asked. I'll be at the meeting and will check the board for questions(I'm sure Dee is capable of that also, hehe). Plus if you post your questions here I bet Dee can either answer them prior to the meeting or know whats coming and have an answer formulated.

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"Good...Bad...I'm the one with the gun. Kaboom!"
-- Ash, Army of Darkness

Well, then... I am wondering about licensing for Coldstone Games. So, what one must do to sell a game aside from having it be original, mainly CGE related ambrosia licensing. Also, if it is possible to have NPCs fight and be allied with you, specifically for a Diablo II Necro style summon type thinga.

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Originally posted by Nyros_Raylan:
(B}Also, if it is possible to have NPCs fight and be allied with you, specifically for a Diablo II Necro style summon type thinga.(/B)

Not in real time, no.

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"I believe in the sun, even when it is night. I believe in love, even when I do not feel it. And I believe in God, even when he does not reveal his prescence."
-A survivor of the Holocaust

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Originally posted by Nyros_Raylan:
Well, then... I am wondering about licensing for Coldstone Games. So, what one must do to sell a game aside from having it be original, mainly CGE related ambrosia licensing.

From the Coldstone readme file:

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Games and plugins created by Coldstone may be distributed non-commercially at no cost; shareware distribution of games and plugins created by Coldstone are likewise free of charge.

Commercial distribution, (defined as requiring the customer to pay before they can obtain your game/plugin), whether online or retail, requires obtaining a license from Ambrosia Software, Inc. Commercial distribution licenses are available at reasonable rates, either flat-fee or royalty-based. Special rates are also available for educational institutions. Please contact help@AmbrosiaSW.com for details.

So basically if you are going to list your game as freeware or shareware you do not need to go through Ambrosia at all. You will need to give credit to Coldstone(either through a splash page or a credits/readme page) and Ambrosia, but thats it. If you are going to make your game a commercial distribution(ie, box it and sell it) then you must contact Ambrosia and purchase a license to do so. If you do not do this Ambrosia has the right to sue your butt off(and I hope they intend to go after people that violate their license as this is the only way they will be able to keep prices down for us).

If you have questions on their policies or the cost of a commercial distribution license it would be best to contact Ambrosia directly at help@ambrosiasw.com

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"Good...Bad...I'm the one with the gun. Kaboom!"
-- Ash, Army of Darkness

So I can just create an intro page that says "Made with the Coldstone Game Engine from Beenox and Ambrosia" that flashed on the screen for a few seconds every time the game started up, and I'd be good?

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Originally posted by Minty:
So I can just create an intro page that says "Made with the Coldstone Game Engine from Beenox and Ambrosia" that flashed on the screen for a few seconds every time the game started up, and I'd be good?

Yup, if your game is shareware or freeware. And, of course, you've paid your registration fee of $40 for Coldstone itself.

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Originally posted by theGlueBubble:
**And, of course, you've paid your registration fee of $40 for Coldstone itself.

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hey i had to pay $44 (thanx to the five dollar Pog CD rebate), how come he gets a better price break?

Coldstone is $49.

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(quote)Originally posted by straytoaster:
**hey i had to pay $44 (thanx to the five dollar Pog CD rebate), how come he gets a better price break?:p

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Well, obviously it is a little past the seventh now, but I still have some questions - I have just gotten my net priveledges back (parents...ugh(sometimes)). It sounds as though I have to first make the game (after paying my 49$ for the CD) and then get a liscence from Ambrosia to sell it? How much will that run me? I'm just a poor boy who has been scraping the bottom of his bucket for that 49$, and though it will be a year or so, I plan on making, and selling a game. I can't say it's going to be first rate, seeing as my budget is well, 0$, but I have found free musical talent, an engine to write it with, and possibly some free graphics (I hope). So I was just curious how much you were gonna charge me.

Oh yeah, another question, I know that there are a bunch of sprite developing programs, and I was curious if someone might help help direct me towards the cheap/free (mostly free) ones. Thanks!

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Originally posted by Shrout1:
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Oh yeah, another question, I know that there are a bunch of sprite developing programs, and I was curious if someone might help help direct me towards the cheap/free (mostly free) ones. Thanks!

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You should try and get yourself a copy of Photoshop LE or Adobe Elements, they're budget versions of Adobe Photoshop, the best 2D art programme out there. If they're too expensive, you could get a copy of Graphic Convertor, it's a budget version of PS.

try getting them here: (url="http://"http://www.adobe.com")www.adobe.com(/url) (url="http://"http://www.download.com")www.download.com(/url) (url="http://"http://www.versiontracker.com")www.versiontracker.com(/url)

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Ladies and Gentlemen, as you know we have something special for you at
Birdland this evening. A recording for Blue Note Records...
"Actions have reactions, don't be quick to judge, you may not know the hardships people don't speak of,
It's best to step back, and observe with couth, for we all must meet our moment of truth." - (url="http://"http://www.OHHLA.com/anonymous/gngstarr/moment/moment.gsr.txt")Guru(/url)