[News] Spellbound and e.p.i.c. reach comprehensive license agreement | ANN.lu |
Posted on 16-Aug-2004 07:39 GMT by Thomas Steiding | 32 comments View flat View list |
Spellbound Entertainment AG and e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh
have reached a comprehensive license agreement, that will bring many of the popular Spellbound games to other systems like the Apple Macintosh and Linux a.o.. The first title to be ported will be Strategy game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood", which will initially be released for Apple Macintosh and Linux. Versions for other systems are planned. Further Spellbound titles are to follow soon.
Kehl/ Tübingen 16.8.2004
Spellbound Entertainment and e.p.i.c. interactive to enter license agreement
Spellbound Entertainment AG and e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh
have reached a comprehensive license agreement, that will bring many of the popular Spellbound games to other systems like the Apple Macintosh and Linux a.o.. The first title to be ported will be Strategy game "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood", which will initially be released for Apple Macintosh and Linux. Versions for other systems are planned. Further Spellbound titles are to follow soon.
"We are very proud to have the chance to cooperate with one of Germanys longest standing developing companies. Finally great Spellbound titles, who all have gathered a large and loyal following, will become available to gamers on other computer systems." said Thomas Steiding, CEO of e.p.i.c. interactive, about the deal.
Armin Gessert, CEO of Spellbound, added:"In e.p.i.c. we have found a competent partner and we are happy that the long neglected users of systems such as Macintosh and Linux will soon be able to play our games too."
More information about "Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood" will be available on our website soon.
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Posted by takemehomegrandma on 17-Aug-2004 09:24 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (toaks): If I remember things correctly, Epic are using their own "SDL-kind-of" engine, to which they port the games. This engine runs on both Mac and Linux and once the game is ported to "the engine", it is AFAIK fairly easy to get it running on all platforms that has the engine running.
The good thing here is that this engine is also running on MorphOS! :-)
I can understand if Epic would choose to step aside for a while (even if I see no real sign of it?), taking a spectators role, to see what happens to the Pegasos/MorphOS platform after Genesi's changed financial situation that followed from the Pretory thing. I would say that they are not alone, if that is the case. But seeing that they are still posting news to sites like this, saying "that will bring many of the popular Spellbound games to [b]other systems[/b] like the Apple Macintosh and Linux [b]a.o.[/b].", is a good sign IMHO. They are still here, and once (if) the MorphOS platform takes off seriously enough to offer a market for third party software producers (like Epic), I am quite confident that we will see these games on MorphOS in no-time.
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