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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Release Date and price info

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RickV
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Posted: 12th Jul 2011 16:19 Edited at: 12th Jul 2011 23:59
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Hi all,

Pre-ordering will begin next week.

Official release date will be 15th August 2011.

Pricing info (at last!)

AGK Pricing, normal price: $111.99

This will be discounted by 30% for our immediate community of users for the first three months of release:
Community Pricing (30% discount): $77.99

Includes all V1 platforms which includes: Windows, Mac, iOS, Bada and MeeGo.

Tier1 (BASIC) and Tier2 (C++ libraries) are all included, one complete solution.

Corporates with turnover greater than $100,000 - $999
Users who grow to that level have to upgrade ($887)

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zapakitul
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Posted: 12th Jul 2011 17:04
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Awesome! Thanks for the Info Rick!
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Steve Ancell
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Posted: 12th Jul 2011 18:35
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This is excellent news!.

I know I don't nomally ask, and I promise I'll only ask once , but do you have any idea on pricing yet, now that this news has been announced?.
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Posted: 12th Jul 2011 18:37
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Day 1 purchase for me. This is the best product TGC has released since FPSC.

I like the fact 2D is coming back. Even commercial developers understand multi million dollar development projects are not sustainable and seriously limit experimentation.

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Mobiius
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Posted: 12th Jul 2011 23:11
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About time a date was released. But now all we need is a price!

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RickV
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Posted: 13th Jul 2011 00:00
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See above in the top post, AppGameKit price now revealed!

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The Slayer
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Posted: 13th Jul 2011 00:15
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Aah, finally. A date and price. Thanks, RickV!
Now, just save some money. Hehheheh.

One question though, is it possible to buy the AppGameKit via Bank transfer, just like the other TGC products?

Cheers

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Posted: 13th Jul 2011 00:36
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@ The Slayer - yes Global Collect can take bank transfers.

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Posted: 13th Jul 2011 00:40
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Awesome!!! Thanks Rick!

Quote: "This will be discounted by 30% for our immediate community of users for the first three months of release:
Community Pricing (30% discount): $77.99"

A generous offer from TGC. I'm assuming the system already knows who we are? And the price is in USD?

Quote: "Tier1 (BASIC) and Tier2 (C++ libraries) are all included, one complete solution."

That is perfect for me!

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Posted: 13th Jul 2011 01:29
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Reasonably priced as always. Outstanding!!

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Posted: 13th Jul 2011 01:48
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Can I purchase AppGameKit with PayPal?.
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RickV
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Posted: 13th Jul 2011 10:56
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@ Steve - we use Global Collect as our payment solution and they take paypal along with credit/debit cards and bank transfers.

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This includes both Tiers? Brilliant.
Well I guess your hard work on this product is going to pay off.
Not only do you have a strong number of community members waiting for a pre-order, you have thousands of developers looking for exactly this!

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Max
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Quote: "@ Steve - we use Global Collect as our payment solution and they take paypal along with credit/debit cards and bank transfers.

Rick"


OK, cheers Rick
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So were looking at £48.90 GBP? Not bad. I'll have to get this soonest!

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I've been trying to follow the progress of the AppGameKit (not being in the beta program) but I'm getting increasingly confused over the Tiers.

As I understood it Tier 1 allowed selling apps via GameCreators only and Tier 2 allows building and distributing apps independently.

But the release details above sound like you can only distribute yourself if you code in C++, is this correct?

I've never got my head round C++ and have been looking forward to a DBPro style language for mobile apps that I can then build and distribute to Apple, Android (eventually) and others myself.

Is this the case?

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Posted: 13th Jul 2011 22:16
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Okay I may have to check this out!

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There is no tiers anymore. So when you buy AppGameKit you get both.

C++ allows you to use AppGameKit as library so you can code your own against Xcode.

So basically AppGameKit Basic Script is like Dark Basic only in 2D
and C++ libraries are like the Dark SDK libaries only in 2D, but you get both for a low price.

If you want to distribute your apps only using AppGameKit Basic Script for ios, you will need to sell through TGC. If you want to do it on your own, you use C++, the AppGameKit C++ Libraries and Xcode.

App Game Kit (A.G.K.) - Want to be creative on many platforms at once? This is the tool you need.
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Ha, a very reasonable price and a release date on my birthday, I'm sold.

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Quote: "There is no tiers anymore."

I wouldn't say that...exactly, there are still two types of AppGameKit and one is more limited than the other when it comes to publishing but it is awesome that they come bundled.

Quote: "Ha, a very reasonable price and a release date on my birthday, I'm sold."

Happy Birthday in advance!!!

I think we should have an AppGameKit community competition, it's been ages since the last community comp and this time we have a new toy.

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Quote: "I think we should have an AppGameKit community competition"


Totally agree! There's nothing quite like a competition to get one motivated!

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@Hodgey:

Please clarify "one is more limited than the other when it comes to publishing".
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Posted: 14th Jul 2011 13:00 Edited at: 14th Jul 2011 15:13
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@DrT
I've heard that the BASIC version of AppGameKit may have trouble with publishing, mainly with Apple's App store because the guidelines are so strict but last I heard TGC are offering a publishing route. I can't confirm this but it has been circling around. I think it is because that BASIC AppGameKit needs a player where C++ AppGameKit just makes it's way into the relevant sdk?

Sorry if that doesn't really clarify anything...

Edit- My apologies if this is going off topic but Rick could you add the App Game Kit board to the TGC toolbar. I went to the toolbar thread but it has been automatically locked.

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I hope that there isn't problem to publish on IOS store because
I'm interested to develop only IOS apps.
And anyone knows how is possible to download the player on IOS device without jailbreak ?

Please can Rick or Lee answer my question ?
thank you
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I think that you can publish to the appstore via TGC, but both TGC and apple will take some profit

Srry about my english im from sweeden
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Publishing via TGC will mean you get about half the sale price of your app. The app store will take 30%, TGC will then take another 30%, the rest will be yours. I think this is fair enough as all the hassle of having your game certified, which is starting to become the norm now will be none of your concern. Considering this alone can cost anything from roughly $100 a year, I would say it balances out. I wouldn't fancy releasing a game to sell just a few copies and end up losing money because I had to spend more on the certification fee.
If you use the C++ libraries you can publish yourself if you prefer. This is what I gather from what I have read over the last few months anyway. I'm sure someone from TGC will clarify this at some point soon.

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It's the 15th, where's my copy of AppGameKit!?!? lol

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Posted: 15th Aug 2011 10:36 Edited at: 15th Aug 2011 10:44
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Quote: "It's the 15th, where's my copy of AppGameKit!?!? lol"


Tell me about it. It's been the 15th for me for 17 hours 35 mins already!

EDIT
I got the email to say this was available about 10 seconds after I posted this... yay

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Posted: 15th Aug 2011 11:01
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Downloading now! Yay!

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