Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Matt Verran" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Is OPM still taking games? Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:15:51 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 55 Message-ID: <87bkhu$t7h1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <75+oDKAqzMm4EwNH@trsoft.demon.co.uk> <87ar8t$sf21@chuka.playstation.co.uk> Reply-To: "Matt Verran" NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.70.71.140 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 > Tony, > > As far as I know the fame game is still up and running. I can remember a few > weeks ago hearing that George Bain was going to make "an announcement" about > the whole affair but I never heard anything more about it. I think the only > reason there's been no Yaroze games on the OPM disk is purely because > there's been none submitted. So, get coding my good man! :o) Down, Stars Wars, Arena2, Up, Trisis, Katarsis, Downfall, Git just to name eight and I am sure there have been others that I missed in my 2 minute search. Personally I think the SONY staff are too busy with the whole PS2 thing, it is them that have to compile the disk after all. I emailed the editor of OPM a while back (which I posted) and his take on the situation was that if SONY supply the disk with NY games on it they are happy to put it on the cover. > I'm actually more bothered about this June 30th 2000 cutoff point for the > Yaroze project. On the back of the Yaroze application form it says something > about the Yaroze project ending on this date. Does anyone know what this > means as far all the members go? Does everything shut down completely or > does Sony just stop providing support? I don't think at the moment the NY project takes up many of their resources, the official support side has almost completely wound down now so it's only the newsgroups and the webspace. If they get rid of that they must know everyone will take their NY stuff to the public domain. I think they will probably leave it up untill no-one uses it anymore. > As far as the OPM fame game goes how about releasing a final demo disk with > as much Yaroze stuff on as possible to mark the occasion? If everything is > going to be shut down it would be nice if OPM put out a disk with every > Yaroze (Europe) demo on to date no matter how crap. This would still give > some of us novices something to work towards and might spark a final bit of > effort from other members (we all know how dead the newsgroups have been > lately :o/ ). Anyway, it's something to think about, or perhaps not if I'm > just speaking tosh. I agree with this, a final disk that we were all told about in advance with loads of games on. Even if it was just for members it would be nice to have your game on a black disk, and a nice thankyou for all the great press we have given SONY. I don't think it is anyone's fault (except maybe SONY as a corporation) that we don't have the OPM fame game anymore, but it is a shame... Matt