Torque about being a risky business...

CoIinCoIin Member Posts: 197
edited November -1 in Business and Marketing Theory
Haven't checked in here for a while, been, ironically, swamped finishing up an iPhone app in another tool! I see there is news of news coming.

Meanwhile, as an example of how getting the business model wrong could be bad, Torque are shutting down:

http://www.torquepowered.com/community/blogs/view/20495

Comments

  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    What made Torque special though?
  • LAdrianLAdrian Member Posts: 237
    I don't know about the business model but I do know about the software.
    I bought iTorque 2d for around 800usd and it was a piece of crap - slow and buggy!
    Bad support, no new features... just terrible
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    LAdrian said:
    I bought iTorque 2d for around 800usd and it was a piece of crap - slow and buggy!
    Bad support, no new features... just terrible

    Yeah, I don't think this is about the business model as much as about the quality of the product.
  • hdeandahdeanda Member, PRO Posts: 55
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    Perhaps the GameSalad team should make a special offer to get those wandering Torque customers.

    Oh... that's right... GameSalad isn't actually for sale right now, is it?!
  • BeyondtheTechBeyondtheTech Member Posts: 809
    Very sad to hear this news.

    Very funny with your thread title.
  • Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
    @Colin which tool have you been working with?
  • CoIinCoIin Member Posts: 197
    The tool for the iPhone/iPad app I'm doing is Flash. We were originally going to use GameSalad, but then suddenly Flash was allowed again, and GameSalad looked like it was going to have to be published by them (which our client wouldn't have been thrilled about). Also, it's full of vector characters and animation, and timelines synced to audio, and other things that GameSalad would have struggled to do.
  • NeverbeNeverbe Member Posts: 117
    LAdrian said:
    I don't know about the business model but I do know about the software.
    I bought iTorque 2d for around 800usd and it was a piece of crap - slow and buggy!
    Bad support, no new features... just terrible
    They have release a new, and better, version for iTorque.
    TGB is one of the best 2D engine and it cost only 100$
  • ToastKittenToastKitten Member Posts: 360
    This makes me miss Fallen Empire: Legions :'(

    Even more sad news is that InstantAction finally shut down ;_;

    I'm.... I'm gonna go sulk for a while
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