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Game Engine Licensing and FS2004

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Hey all,

Have you noticed that EVERYONE that makes game engines, offers it to developer teams? You license it, they get a piece of the action (the producer of the game engine platform) and you can re-outfit the platform with your own things.

I want to do this with the FS2004 game engine. I have a few idea's I would like to do with it. If only MS would offer it in a license program like all the other game engine platform developers out there.


I see that you can get FS2002 for $9.99 at places like BestBuy and Office Supply stores.


How I wish.......


Did the group that does IL2 Sturmovick create their own game platform?



Bill
 
I have a feeling MS would point you at the ESP game engine which they license!

Il-2 has its own game engine, which I don't think is available for license. Plus the area you can fly in is a bit limited compared to FS!
 
MS stopped licensing ESP the day ACES was sacked.

All rights to ESP were licensed to Lockheed-Martin, including the source code.

Bill, even were MS inclined to license the FS9 game engine, you couldn't afford it. It would blow you mind if you knew just how much L-M paid for ESP! :eek:
 
n4gix said:
MS stopped licensing ESP the day ACES was sacked.

All rights to ESP were licensed to Lockheed-Martin, including the source code.

Bill, even were MS inclined to license the FS9 game engine, you couldn't afford it. It would blow you mind if you knew just how much L-M paid for ESP! :eek:
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MS "blew my mind" many years ago :P

It was blown again, when L-M actually "bought" ESP !!

Fancon 2011 :) Cool -- just down the road from me -- I know will owe someone there a few drinks :rolleyes:

Geoff
 
:rotfl:I might actually let you buy me one, as long as it's no stronger than sasparilla...
 
Geoff,

Where is Fancon?




I still think its possible. I see tons of things that could be done with FS9, and it would be its own section of the gaming/sim market. I could never come close to competing with Flight. That, and MS would make more money off of a sim that was retired.

So much that that awesome engine could do..... What a wild sim it could be.

Bill Lyons 'touched' it with Golden Wings, which then spread out to Silver Wings, just a freeware update, and even today, I have customers who buy my FS9 planes for their Golden Wings installations.

Amazing what just one person could do to improving FS9.


Bill
 
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