Bungie Aero space is a program to help either students or individual game developers to make mobile [iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch] and social games.

Aerospace provides financial aid, and access to the Bungie.net platform

"
Financial Resources
An Audience with our Kick Ass Community
PR & Marketing Support
QA/Testing & User Research
Release Management Support
Technology & Expertise for: Web, Servers, Database, and Back-end Services
"

Source: http://www.bungie.net/projects/aerospace/


Also: Marathon has been released on the iPad.

Not sure if anyone found out what it was yet...
Edited by iHalo on Jul 24, 2011 at 03:30 AM

It's interesting, good to see some company's care about indie developers.

Bungie's cool like this. I'm glad a major developer is finally trying to take all of the struggling Indie ones under their financial wing!

This...


<3 Bungie.

Officially disappointed. No longer caring

Well aren't we selfish?

I'm disappointed at the fact that its not open to everyone, similar to how UDK or Cryengine has taken their platforms. If Bungie legitimately cared about the modding aspect, and a rise of Indie developers, why wouldn't they do that? How am I being selfish in this?

I'm diappointed because that they haven't said that they were going release anything to the PC community..

Well maybe you should have explained yourself then instead of saying "IAMDISAPPOINT."

Also, Bungie HAS to make a profit off of this; though the studio is successful, it still needs a way to pay for all of its services, employees, etc. Making it available for everyone instead of JUST Indie devs might make it too wide of a spectrum for their finances to cover. Just throwing out an idea as to why.

@higuy: Does bungie even have an engine that's made for use on the pc?

If there wasn't a PC, then there wouldnt be video games. So yes.

And DarkHalo, the thing is that with other engines like UDK or Cryengine, you can sell your game and make profit, but if it exceeds a limit, you have to pay them a certain percentage of it. I don't see how that isn't fair; besides, I'm pretty sure Bungie is doing just fine in terms of money income and flow.

What I mean is, bungie doesn't own the Halo engine anymore so they might not have a game engine right now.

No lol, they don't the Halo IP. They own the rights to their own engine though, otherwise Aerospace wouldn't have been thought of.

Ah, I must've misread the aerospace stuff, I thought it meant that the indie developer needed to have an engine of their own.

Yeah already read about it. They're a bit late, aren't they? Indie developers seem to have already realised they can just make games for free with a loyal team, then sell their games under a friendly publisher like Valve. Why waste money signing contracts with Bungie?

Btw, I just realised this is off the topic of Halo. :P

Normally I'd agree, but keep in mind their latest success was mooched off of by MS. They probably only obtained not nearly as much as we think they did.

Meh. never liked Bungie anyways, they never did anything with there fans till there game died.

I wouldn't consider Halo dead, 120k players a day seems alive in my opinion.

Well they did make the games that allowed them to have fans.

People might choose Bungie because its actually a marketing campaign. They are actually fulling backing the project, Valve on the other hand sign the contracts and pump the games out on Steam.

Its very exciting news and I can't wait to see what happens next.