rohezal
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Since ED wrote that kickstarter allows Germans to create projects but the funding of the Pyra is done via money from investors / sold Pandoras (except mass production) I want to tell my idea what kind of projects could be funded via kickstarter.
Multicolor Keymats: Since there is some discussion for multi colored LEDs, why not just change the keymat color to give people different backlight colors?
Different colored cases: A red Pyra or a blue Pyra? Why not, it should be possible with some money.
Unity Support: Unity is a very popular engine which can export the created game to different plattforms like x86 linux, windows, mac, android and consoles. But not to arm linux. If we collect some money and get an offer from unity about the price, we maybe could pay them to make an exporter for the Pyra (and maybe for Pandora?). This would enable games like Pillars of Eternity and War for the Overworld for the Pyra which are AAA titles. It would need some work on the textures and polygon count, but it should be doable with almost no work for the developers. I don't know how likely this is. Maybe for 100K Unity would do it. Maybe they won't.
Full open gl driver: We got glshim, maybe we can a full opengl 2.0 or even higher driver, if we can collect enough money. Some of the opcodes of the power have been reverse engineered. http://lkcl.net/powervr/sgx/ and the eff says the driver is a high priority project. But it would be lots of work, and I believe the kickstarter won't get enough money and it would be hard to find enough people to do it. http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group
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Multicolor Keymats: Since there is some discussion for multi colored LEDs, why not just change the keymat color to give people different backlight colors?
Different colored cases: A red Pyra or a blue Pyra? Why not, it should be possible with some money.
Unity Support: Unity is a very popular engine which can export the created game to different plattforms like x86 linux, windows, mac, android and consoles. But not to arm linux. If we collect some money and get an offer from unity about the price, we maybe could pay them to make an exporter for the Pyra (and maybe for Pandora?). This would enable games like Pillars of Eternity and War for the Overworld for the Pyra which are AAA titles. It would need some work on the textures and polygon count, but it should be doable with almost no work for the developers. I don't know how likely this is. Maybe for 100K Unity would do it. Maybe they won't.
Full open gl driver: We got glshim, maybe we can a full opengl 2.0 or even higher driver, if we can collect enough money. Some of the opcodes of the power have been reverse engineered. http://lkcl.net/powervr/sgx/ and the eff says the driver is a high priority project. But it would be lots of work, and I believe the kickstarter won't get enough money and it would be hard to find enough people to do it. http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group
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