The Kameleon Project

By: Derek Yu

On: May 8th, 2007

Slitherine Software, creators of Legion Arena and other PC strategy games, has announced The Kameleon Project, a program where Slitherine will help other independent developers get their projects off the ground by providing help with… well, basically anything they need, from production to marketing to tech support.

I like the idea of having a company that will essentially “fill in the cracks” for indie developers, although I am suspicious of the Kameleon Project for a multitude of reasons. For one thing, any and all information about what Slitherine gets from the partnerships is noticeably absent from the website. It’s obviously not a completely altruistic endeavor, so what’s the deal? For another, I really haven’t heard about them… I assume they have a strong historical strategy niche carved out, but if you’re making a game that doesn’t fall in that category, can they really help you?

And one other thing is that (and I think I mentioned this before) at GDC this year one of the Slitherine guys was a total dick to us (completely unnecessarily, I might add) and if you end up working with this guy, he will probably be a dick to you! Although if you’re paying him moneys, maybe he won’t be… but he’ll still be thinking dick thoughts about you.

(Source: GameSetWatch)

Posted in Community, Developers

PoV

Slitherine was also the developer of an FPS for Gameboy Color, that was never picked up. So they’ve certainly had their ups and downs.
JakeDrake

Dicks will do anything for money.
Zenith

‘See, you’ve got your dicks, pussies, and assholes..’ :)
ShadowRice

Sounds like a good idea, as long as the developers are able hang on to the rights to the work and collect some royalty checks.
Albert Lai

Hm. Dick thoughts. Ominous.
BeamSplashX

Dick thoughts? Even with females?

In that case, I’d watch out for underhanded “character edits”.
PoV

There’s actually a bunch of people and companies “offering” the same services. Just they lack their own “dick filled” TIG topics.
Icedemon

hmmm… in my amateurness, i picked up a few too many projects… The Kameleon project, eh? there might be a possibility of an undercover op here…
PoV

Yes Snake. Take this cardboard box and do some recon.
http://www.arsecast.com DrDerekDoctors

Spill! How was he a dick to you?
Derek

We had a kiosk next to his and whenever our music was on he came at us like he was going to punch us and then yelled at us to turn it down. Got up in our face, basically. Could’ve asked us politely, but didn’t. That was like as soon as we got there, he didn’t even bother to introduce himself.

It was sad, because everyone else was really nice and generally there was a real feeling of camaraderie.
http://www.arsecast.com DrDerekDoctors

Cripes, they do sound like they represented themselves poorly. Surprising thing to do given how tight-knit the community is.
koach

Don’t take people living in their own private Harry Potter world serious…
koach

Also that logo really is a Bit Blot rip off…
PoV

Ha ha!
negative zero

you should’ve turned the music up even more.