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Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: xamindar on April 13, 2004, 03:33:21 pm
Does anybody know what happened to eon games?  If I buy a game from them will they be there to send the registration code to me?

It appears that their site was last updated sometime in mid 2003.  It\'s rather frustrating that there isn\'t any recent news up.  I want to get that snails game so bad but it looks like they never finished the beta demo (which runs great on my 5600).

Anybody from eon games out there?  Any one else have info on this subject.

I\'m on the verge of buying RocketElite but they haven\'t responded to my email so will they email me my registration?
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: jason123 on April 13, 2004, 03:44:34 pm
Last I heard they were changing locations ... but that was late last year.
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: jason123 on April 16, 2004, 10:44:15 pm
I asked this question on the PDABuyersguide Forums (http://www.pdabuyersguide.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=linuxgames&Number=10097&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1%20PDAbuyersguide%20forum)

Hopefully we\'ll get an answer someway or another -- I too want Snails
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: treke on April 16, 2004, 11:22:25 pm
Snails most likely isnt going to be released. There shouldnt be any trouble buying the stuff already released though, it was all handled by scripts.
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: padishah_emperor on April 16, 2004, 11:30:10 pm
I\'ve written to Eon Games twice, no reply. I had no problem buying one of their games though as the process was automated.
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: EonGames on April 16, 2004, 11:30:43 pm
I\'m still alive, and orders and such should still function (it\'s automatic). However I\'m pretty much not doing any PDA / Zaurus development at the moment. Snails might be released and I really wish I could get it out sometime soon.

You could say that I am a bit disappointed with how the zaurus evolved itself away from the \"mainstream\" (well it never was there, but the goals used to be).

--
David Hedbor aka Eon Games.
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: jason123 on April 17, 2004, 12:13:26 am
Thanks for the udate David, I don\'t think any of us are pleased about Sharps\' retreat.
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: xamindar on April 17, 2004, 04:46:15 am
Thank you for the update David.  I will still love to see snails

But for now I will buy rocket elete
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: tumnus on April 29, 2004, 03:01:19 pm
Good to see you\'re still around and even reading these forums David.

Just wondering what is left to do on the Snails game? Are there more maps to port? I\'ve played the demo to death and haven\'t come across any bugs. I\'m sure there would be quite a number of people that would buy the full version (including me  ).
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: padishah_emperor on April 29, 2004, 04:24:43 pm
I still want Interstellar Flames running properly on my 860  :-(

I want a game with bite  :-)

[span style=\'font-size:16pt;line-height:100%\']erm, when was Sharp in the mainstream? The mainstream is boring.[/span]
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: Zuber on April 29, 2004, 04:49:49 pm
Are you sure you can\'t get these games working nicely on the C7xx/8xx models. Think of all those potential Japanese customers
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: padishah_emperor on April 29, 2004, 07:33:04 pm
Quote
Are you sure you can\'t get these games working nicely on the C7xx/8xx models. Think of all those potential Japanese customers

Exactly, think of ME!  ;-)

Jingly puzzles and stuff is all well and good in small doses, but I want some serious shoot-em up action, Doom is good , Interstellar Flames is even better :twisted:, my bro swears by it and makes me jealous of his 5500. I\'d even pay again, DOUBLE THE PRICE for a version specific to the C series, all you have to do is flip the display, OR patch it or something!!! :idea:

C\'mon Eon Games make some more games, or GNU the code.

:-)
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: tumnus on April 30, 2004, 03:07:04 am
The problem with Interstellar Flames in particular is that it was designed specifically for a portrait PDA. Since it is a port of the Pocket PC version I would imagine it would be too much work to convert all the graphics to display in landscape orientation. The long narrow path that you can fly along was done largely because of the portrait orientation of most PDAs.
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: totoetlititi on May 13, 2004, 09:12:54 am
the site is updated....
http://www.eongames.com/order.html (http://www.eongames.com/order.html)
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: Mickeyl on May 13, 2004, 09:37:47 am
We would see more interesting games if someone would take the plunge and start submitting Zaurus changes to SDL upstream. Since no one wants to do that, all Zaurus ports of SDL suffer from bitrot.
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: Cwiiis on May 27, 2004, 09:39:48 am
I agree with the sentiment in this thread, Snails would be a great game for the Zaurus and the demo runs perfectly on my 5500 - If you really want to see it, I think the best option is to convey your sentiment to the developer(s?) and perhaps buy their other products to show there\'s an interest in commercial Zaurus games. Personally, I have bought RocketElite and Motocross Stunt Racer (both of which are great, and very cheap now) and I\'ve sent an e-mail. Perhaps other would do the same...

Disclaimer: I\'m not affiliated with Eon games or anything like that
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: matthis on August 30, 2006, 03:23:32 am
Hi all,

It has been more than one year since the latest post here.
I am posting because I have bought two games from Eon last week, but have received nothing from them... I have received a paypal receit, so the money was paid, but no reply from eon even after mailing them.
Anything I can do?
Anyone else in my case?

THanks for any help.
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: Cresho on August 30, 2006, 03:29:00 am
I purchased my eon games from myzaurus.com.  For the c1000 and 3200 but was originaly for my sl-5500.  THey still work great.  Sad to hear they havent responded.
Title: Eon Games, what happened to them?
Post by: matthis on September 23, 2006, 04:31:47 am
OK apparently the automatic system had mysteriously failed, but Eon games got back to me today and I got my two games - Bust'em and RocketElite - which by the way are excellent.