Forums > Game Talk > Polygures - a game 16 years in NON-development
Chentzilla (227) on 3/27/2012 6:31 PM · Permalink · Report
In 1996, I've read in a gaming magazine an article on non-standard tetris variations. You can see the scans of the magazine at the bottom of this post: http://mjr-blayne.livejournal.com/288242.html, and the translation can be found here: http://sites.google.com/site/polyfiguregames/. The years passed, and in 2011 I was re-reading this magazine and thought that I've never seen some of those modifications. So I checked if maybe the author made and uploaded the games somewhere. Soon, I've found his page, a couple of demos, and the author, mathematician Alexander Iglitsky, himself. It occurred that he never implemented most of those ideas, but when I told him that now is the best time to publish non-standard games, he jumped at the opportunity, and in the following months we had about a dozen variations. You can check our "whispering" trailer here: http://youtu.be/oS2Xup7vHtI and there's a demo showing one of the games, codenamed Yakoris: http://blayne.narod.ru/Polygures_public_demo.html (DOS only). As you may have guessed, we are having some troubles finding a publisher, as authentic 1996 game-design doesn't stand a chance again hipsters ironically making fun of old games. Polygures is hard and not flashy. It probably won't sell. But at least it has a good story behind it - and a theory.
Rola (8486) on 3/27/2012 9:38 PM · edited · Permalink · Report
[Q --start Chentzilla wrote--]Polygures is hard and not flashy.[/Q --end Chentzilla wrote--] I admit I know nothing of the code doing the works, but judging from the screenshot it's something that could be ported & released as a browser Flash game. Many small developers choose that option.
vedder (70661) on 3/28/2012 7:03 AM · Permalink · Report
My suggstion would be either to rewrite it in Flash Action Script and try to get it on Kongregate, or rewrite it in Unity and try to get it on Apple Store and Android Marketplace.
Maybe now Gog.com starts releasing brand-new titles as well you could also try contacting them.