My name is MadShmupper and I'm part of a group of developers working on porting games to handheld Linux devices. Our project is named PortMaster, and we have an active Discord server in which you are very welcome to come check out any time.
For the past couple of years, we've added a nice amount of Gamemaker games to various Linux devices.
We at PortMaster, firmly believe in reaching out to content creators/game authors like yourself to ask for consent in distributing their free game files within a ready to run port in PortMaster. Without your consent, the user will need to manually add their game files.
It would be fantastic if you could grant us permission to include your data.win and .ogg files of Santamaku within a packaged port as a ready to run game.
May we distribute the game file/s in question, please?
Your game would undoubtedly be a most excellent addition to these handheld devices!
Especially in a "ready to run" format and especially for this time of season 🎅
You will of course be properly thanked and noted as game author/maker. PortMaster will be responsible for the ports maintenance should any be needed. However, as the creator, you are welcome to come check us out and have any say you'd like involving said port.
Please note that we are not looking to take monetary profit, nor take credit for having created, any of the games we port. Our primary goal is to introduce more games to our beloved handheld devices, and showcase the creations of excellent devs such as yourself.
I'll close this by thanking you for any consideration that you may lend towards our request!
THANK YOU🎩
Best regards, MadShmupper & Everyone at PortMaster
I have the Linux export license for Game Maker so I could handle that myself, I just didn't realize there was a demand for it - this game gets an average of less than 10 downloads per year.
(Also Christmas season is over already so it feels a bit late bringing this up NOW, lol - I guess that means I have about 12 months to do this though)
Also note that this game requires a mouse, the device shown off in your previous posts looks like a GBA SP without a touchscreen or a second stick so I don't think Santamaku would even be properly playable.
While it indeed does not play on only dpad, It's playable on devices with analog controls using gptk. I apologize for asking late but it's still winter so I felt it still counts😀. I hope you decide to port it in the future and I thank you for your time and decision. I will refrain from porting it, and I can erase the one I have on my device🙂
Well, the unbeaten streak of this game remains intact after my attempt (I could have given it more attempts but I was fearful for my brain)! I had a lot of fun though!
Even if you didn't manage to beat it, you did a pretty good job for someone that's new to bullet hell games! Also, you're the first person I've seen that managed to pronounce my name correctly, so props for that as well :P
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Hello, 🙂
My name is MadShmupper and I'm part of a group of developers working on porting games to handheld Linux devices. Our project is named PortMaster, and we have an active Discord server in which you are very welcome to come check out any time.
For the past couple of years, we've added a nice amount of Gamemaker games to various Linux devices.
We at PortMaster, firmly believe in reaching out to content creators/game authors like yourself to ask for consent in distributing their free game files within a ready to run port in PortMaster. Without your consent, the user will need to manually add their game files.
It would be fantastic if you could grant us permission to include your data.win and .ogg files of Santamaku within a packaged port as a ready to run game.
May we distribute the game file/s in question, please?
Your game would undoubtedly be a most excellent addition to these handheld devices!
Especially in a "ready to run" format and especially for this time of season 🎅
You will of course be properly thanked and noted as game author/maker. PortMaster will be responsible for the ports maintenance should any be needed. However, as the creator, you are welcome to come check us out and have any say you'd like involving said port.
Please note that we are not looking to take monetary profit, nor take credit for having created, any of the games we port. Our primary goal is to introduce more games to our beloved handheld devices, and showcase the creations of excellent devs such as yourself.
I'll close this by thanking you for any consideration that you may lend towards our request!
THANK YOU🎩
Best regards, MadShmupper & Everyone at PortMaster
I have the Linux export license for Game Maker so I could handle that myself, I just didn't realize there was a demand for it - this game gets an average of less than 10 downloads per year.
(Also Christmas season is over already so it feels a bit late bringing this up NOW, lol - I guess that means I have about 12 months to do this though)
Also note that this game requires a mouse, the device shown off in your previous posts looks like a GBA SP without a touchscreen or a second stick so I don't think Santamaku would even be properly playable.
While it indeed does not play on only dpad, It's playable on devices with analog controls using gptk. I apologize for asking late but it's still winter so I felt it still counts😀. I hope you decide to port it in the future and I thank you for your time and decision. I will refrain from porting it, and I can erase the one I have on my device🙂
Best regards, MadShmupper
Well, the unbeaten streak of this game remains intact after my attempt (I could have given it more attempts but I was fearful for my brain)! I had a lot of fun though!
Even if you didn't manage to beat it, you did a pretty good job for someone that's new to bullet hell games! Also, you're the first person I've seen that managed to pronounce my name correctly, so props for that as well :P