another email:
Hello Mike,
Thank you for your reply with additional feedback on your video game
project. We appreciate your team's support and initiative in doing this to
spread the word about FIRST.
As I'm sure you can understand, FIRST goes through rigorous procedures to
ensure that materials with our name on them adhere to the highest
standards. In this case, particularly with possible sales involved (even
if not for profit), it is also important for us to make sure we review this
opportunity carefully from every perspective, including legal and licensing.
I recommend that once you and your team have your business plan finalized
to the point of defining your objectives, specific game content, and
distribution and pricing plans, you send it to us so that we can review and
address appropriately.
we need to get moving on makign all of our final decisions before FIRST will give it's approval. here are some issues that need to be resolved:
- distribution
- cost or free?
- distribute or download?
- ads - how will people find out about it?
- controls
- voodoo or mega config?
- what special features?
- multiple control schemes with options?
- game modes
- season? individual comps?
- difficulty levels
this is just some of what still needs to be decided. most of these have threads and polls. everybody go back to those threads and give some imput. if you haven't voted yet, please do. i want as much input as possible before i give our final decisions to FIRST