Oni Central Forum

Lithium

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Awesome.  With all the junk we're doing Oni is like a whole new game several times over and with no signs of slowing.

Okay maybe that's a bit dramatic...  But still, we're doin' cool stuff here.

yea i think the title screen is wrong it should say
Oni Anniverary Edition
Developed by: OCF Team
Published by: OCF Community

---

Oni IRC

Stevinlewis

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

So if take two owns oni and if we somehow create a sequel to Oni, money goes to take two instead of our modders who work so hard everyday with no pay for the last 7 years? *blinks in shock*

Leus

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Well we wouldn't sell it we'd prob just give it away.  If we're not gettin' paid either way might as well get more cheap audience. 

---

If we don't change the direction we're going, we'll likely end up where we're headed.

Iritscen

Moderator

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Modders always work for free, Stevinlewis, nothing unusual about that 

---

byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?

Dirk Gently

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Modders always work for free, Stevinlewis, nothing unusual about that 

So true.

---

Mukade

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

yeah, the point is to make the game for enjoyable for yourself and others, but that would be sick if we got payed to do it

---

"He looks mean enough to tear my arm off and beat me to death with it. In fact, he looks mean enough to tear his OWN arm off and beat me to death with it."

Lithium

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

So if take two owns oni and if we somehow create a sequel to Oni, money goes to take two instead of our modders who work so hard everyday with no pay for the last 7 years? *blinks in shock*

NO because u cant sell oni, unless we buy it from take two...hmm why did take two buy oni in the first place?

---

Oni IRC

Iritscen

Moderator

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Same reason anyone buys anything, because it seemed like a good investment.  This way they would get all the money from sales of Oni, and they could also make a sequel that would make more money.  That was the idea, anyway.

Technically, T2 didn't buy Oni, they bought 19.9% stake in Bungie, which was later bought back by Bungie to sell to MS along with the other 80.1%.  Bungie got their 19.9% back by giving the Oni and Myth IPs to T2.  But that's mostly semantics.  T2 just saw Bungie's work as a good investment, that's all.

---

byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?

Leus

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

I dunno how someone could know Oni is awesome enough to trade Bungie stock for but then give up on making it awesomer.

---

If we don't change the direction we're going, we'll likely end up where we're headed.

Iritscen

Moderator

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

I don't really know either, unless Oni's sales just weren't what T2 was expecting and counting on.  Of course we don't know what the sequel would have been like, just that it would have been developed by people who had nothing to do with Bungie.

---

byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?

Stevinlewis

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Owh modders... no payment O_O. Wow thats cool. Okay... mod for ur own pleasure... i get the picture

Lithium

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

yea Stevin, modders are the "Silent Pirates"
Pretty much cuz its not authentic, and they keep their names hidden.

---

Oni IRC

Mukade

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Just wishful thinking i guess, but what would the cost look likef or buying Oni rights from T2?

---

"He looks mean enough to tear my arm off and beat me to death with it. In fact, he looks mean enough to tear his OWN arm off and beat me to death with it."

Gumby

Moderator

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

No idea, I might ask them if I can ever get in contact with someone in T2. Even if we knew, it's probably more than we have.

---

Iritscen:
Iritscen: it's amazing this program even works
Gumby: i know
Iritscen: and that statement applies to my code, not just yours

Stevinlewis

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Maybe its only $2 ringgit. cuz they wana get it outta their hands xD.

Leus

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Either way, charging people money for our expansions isn't the way to get them attention. 

---

If we don't change the direction we're going, we'll likely end up where we're headed.

Iritscen

Moderator

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Right, even if we bought Oni we still would give away our work on it for free.  Also, if we could afford to buy the IP, what then?  Make a new game?  We don't have the manpower or talent for a fraction of the work that would be needed to do a sequel justice.  I'm personally happy with how things are, just working on improving Oni and not worrying about who owns what.

---

byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?

Gumby

Moderator

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Right, even if we bought Oni we still would give away our work on it for free.  Also, if we could afford to buy the IP, what then?  Make a new game?  We don't have the manpower or talent for a fraction of the work that would be needed to do a sequel justice.  I'm personally happy with how things are, just working on improving Oni and not worrying about who owns what.

Well I would buy the IP just for the source code that comes with it.

---

Iritscen:
Iritscen: it's amazing this program even works
Gumby: i know
Iritscen: and that statement applies to my code, not just yours

Iritscen

Moderator

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Dunno, I don't think it's worth that much money just to see the source.  Maybe if it came with working network code ^_^

---

byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?

Gumby

Moderator

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Dunno, I don't think it's worth that much money just to see the source.  Maybe if it came with working network code ^_^

It would come with some network code at the very least.

---

Iritscen:
Iritscen: it's amazing this program even works
Gumby: i know
Iritscen: and that statement applies to my code, not just yours

Mukade

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Maybe its only $2 ringgit. cuz they wana get it outta their hands xD.

Yeah, i was thinking it would be cheap, not 2$ but cheap enough, but i don't even know what expensive is, cheap might be like 10 grand or sumthin

Anyways, we may not be able to makea sequel, but not having to worry about copywrite in a few cases might be nice and like Gumby said, im sure some of us would like the source code, and someone with enough experience could probably make imrpovements to the game by tweaking it? i dunno

As i said, its mostly wishful thinking, but worth checking into IMO

---

"He looks mean enough to tear my arm off and beat me to death with it. In fact, he looks mean enough to tear his OWN arm off and beat me to death with it."

Lithium

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Right, even if we bought Oni we still would give away our work on it for free.  Also, if we could afford to buy the IP, what then?  Make a new game?  We don't have the manpower or talent for a fraction of the work that would be needed to do a sequel justice.  I'm personally happy with how things are, just working on improving Oni and not worrying about who owns what.

YTea because we're all on different locations aroun the world, so yea plus we only have like...maybe 20 people here right now, so yea ur right iritscen, but do u think u could make it with the manpower u had bfore?

---

Oni IRC

Iritscen

Moderator

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Before?  You mean, when the community was younger?  I wasn't here then, but it doesn't seem to me that there were a lot more people around even when Oni released, and modding was almost non-existent for years, so it's hard to say how much talent there was back then.

I'd say that the community is actually in about as good a shape as it's ever been, but it still doesn't seem to have enough people with enough time to produce a game.  Maybe if we can produce a new level (BGI), that will prove that we can handle a large project.  But until we do that much, talking about a new game seems like pie in the sky.

---

byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?

Lithium

Member

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

Yea it'll probly happen when AVGN makes a video where he doesnt say any bad word.
And yea ive been to the old forums and looks fancier to me. And now that i think of it the old forum with the blue design looks really nice to me

---

Oni IRC

Iritscen

Moderator

Re: http://oni.bungie.org is a website again!

And yea ive been to the old forums and looks fancier to me

That forum ran on more complex software.  When it crashed and burned, Harry decided to go with something simpler, which is what we run on now, PunBB.  But you looked at the previous forum ("Oni Central Forum - 2006"), not the original forum ("Oni Central Forum").  Look back at the original one that was thread-style to get a feel for what the early community was like.  There's no index, though, so you have to search by user or keyword.

---

byproducts are fine, but where's the beef?