Onyx Online

[Zincous]

I have some information you may be very interested in. I'm spreading
the word for Demiforce, because it will massively help improve the app
store games and sales. I am also a beta tester for them too.

Seriously check out this article posted by Steve Demeter on his whole
idea behind this awesome idea. Here: http://demiforce.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-can-save-appstore.html

And here is the powerpoint slides for more information:
http://onyx.demiforce.com/Onyx.ppt

Best of all it's free! I would love it if you could look into this. I
feel konstroo could benefit hugely from this. And in turn, your other
games.

[Derrek Leute]

I like the idea. I think centralized scoring and the other things are
good. We may even be interested in testing it in our app. I fully
support the creation of such a service.

However, I don't think it will "balance* the ecosystem. Ultimately the
same thing will happen there as has happened on the App Store. A few
*very* popular games will dominate while smaller ones can't get in.
That is the nature of an open platform. Large scale ecosystems are
very difficult to balance "fairly". I applaud the effort, and I'd love
to see it work. But I am skeptical.

I have no doubt that they can do a better job at it then iTunes. That
simply isn't a priority for apple. They don't care *who's* game you
buy, only that you buy one. and "What's hot" is a great motivation for
people.

I like onyx because more exposure is better than less. Plus it helps
solve some real issues for us developers.

This has gotten off topic! Back to Konstroo! :) I appreciate the
thoughts! I'd be happy to talk more off list!

--Derrek