>But isn't it true that someone investing in your game would play it first
>and then base it on it's merits?

Not necessarily. Not if you tell them it's made with 3D Gamestudio. And not if it's a prototype in development and you are seeking completion funds. Especially not if you have a whole design and are pitching it to a publisher. They hear "I'm making it with game studio" and they think "big rigs" and "big game hunting"

It's just the way it is.

"3D Game Studio"
sounds crappy, and oldschool.

i showed a Demo once to one of the Programmers at work, who was impressed.
When he sked me: Did you write that game,
and i replied, that is runs on the "3D Game Studio" Engine,
he said: "Oh, isn`t that such a game-maker?".

He looked at me, as if I would say i made it with Microsoft QBasic.

Gamestudio simply associates with a "click together" game-maker,
and it has a bad image due to lots of crappy hobby games, that many people saw
before. The good games are not really noticed / remembered to come from the same engine.

Conitec should rethink its maketing approach and make a new brand-name,
(and Hompage), to adress the "Apple IPod" generation, where style plays a
big role.

And I can suggest, that publishers will simply discount a product
simply by "its made with a gamemaker", and thus bargin for a lower
compensation of the developer. And by this (simply by the gamestudio name) it lowers
the attraction to use the engine for serious development.
Changing the name is not hard. And as suggested, the more Costly packages (eg Pro)
should get a new branding.
Casual hobby programmers can still grap for the known gamestudio "starter" versions.
But they will less likely look for the costly Releases right away.

"Flash" or "Shockwave" also follow such an easy approach for hobby developers.
But they still sound more sexy than "3D Game Studio".
And Gamestudio can realize more complex projects than them...


Think about it: Apple!
They would never be so succesfull today, if their Products would
be called Musicplayer FI2. and look like that:







no they look like that:






They are not technologically so much more advanced, the products simple have
a much better style and feeling maketed to the public.
Apple simply understood at one point how to marked and style
pretty casual technology in a "right" way.

People simply look for style nowerdays.

conitec iGine
conitec Force 7 GS/E (game system/engine)
a7 featuring cBabe of Nine, the sexy work drone
Indie an' a JCL
a8: a new hope
3D game Studio MAX (funny, what a single word more stirs up in you...)
4D game studio
lottegine
conitec iGame
Unreal LiteC-ment
my3dgs
i3dgs
3dg.net
a7 2.0
reloaded
revolution
game baker

Can't call it 3D anyway, It needs 3D sound as well to be called
3D or at least 3D virtual sound.

So by rights it's just a 3D graphics game engine, Am I right?

lol @ game baker

Auschwitz Engine?

Analigine?

Limitations Engine?

Oidutsemag D3?