Atari Contest - Create Pong Again

Codeloader · 2012-03-06T16:21:31

I was recently lookup up stuff on atari because they removed my Pong clone which was dumb and I saw that they are having a contest to beef up Pong. My version, of course, was probably better than the orginal like most remakes are but wtf are they hoping to make money off of Pong. Pong is a simple game that people write when they're learning how to program a game. I wrote a Pong clone one time to test out a new game programming language that I wrote. How many clones of Pong are they? 100s? Anyways, the prize is $100000 for the winner but I'm not entering because they had my Pong clone taken down (which was not that great) and the winner only gets half of the winnings initially with the rest coming in as royalties from sales. How can a single Pong clone sell? Futhermore, Atari wishes to take full ownership of the IP from the winner. Many say it is a bad contest because Atari is after new ideas from people. What do you think?

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Started by Codeloader_Dev March 03, 2012 02:54 PM

9 comments, last by Codeloader_Dev 12 years, 6 months ago

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March 06, 2012 04:21 PM

[quote name='Frankus' timestamp='1330969836' post='4919516']
[quote name='tstrimple' timestamp='1330846285' post='4919116']
I've got my entry!

Yeah, but they'll take your idea.
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... I'm okay with that! At my current ad revenue rate, it will be 830 years before I make $100k. As it stands now, I am able to subsidize my coffee consumption by two cups a month thanks to Metroball