There’s been a lot of speculation on the blog and the guitar rising forum about the game being ‘vaporware’.
In case you’ve never heard of ‘vaporware’ there’s a wiki on it here. It’s basically software that gets hyped up but never released, either intended as a joke or there’s a problem in the development.
Well as far as ‘vaporware’ is concerned we’ve never suspected it. But the fact that there’s been no official news updates since the dawn of the official guitar rising website, and hardly any promotion, no release dates or much of anything else strikes alarm bells.
But on the positive side, the company behind guitar rising have won an indepedent game developers award. Although there website looks a little spare, aswell as there official Guitar Rising one.
Then there’s been a promising interview that goes into a little depth about the game. We blogged about it here.
Also they’ve featured at conferences such as GDC 2008 and there’s video’s of the game being demo’d. We blogged about that and included the video here.
And to top all those positive (ish) points off, popular blogs such as gizmodo have blogged about it.
Our guess is that they’re a little behind in development, and the anticipated guitar rising release date won’t be any time soon. Prove us wrong!
Your thoughts?
8 Comments Received
September 21st, 2008 @1:44 am
Vapor ware. Gee I hope not. This would be a disaster. Maybe they are simply implementing all of our wonderful suggestions into the software.
October 23rd, 2008 @9:35 pm
Wow, bummer. It certainly looks like it’s dead in the water. The site has been up for six months or more and they’ve only updated it once to show that the software would be delayed until 2009 as opposed to ‘08? Not January of 2009 or Q1 of 2009 or even 1st half of 2009. Just 2009. I am very disappointed. Situation looks bad.
November 4th, 2008 @5:55 am
marketing… marketing… If it is a serious release and they have problems for development then they will remain quiet till release date… then threre will be official advertising…. pushing the date to somethig realistic…
Ie… release of open adds (TV) saying comming soon or “this summer” more hype… then a early reserve date then full launch
January 12th, 2009 @4:34 pm
Looks like they have partnered with peavey and are serious about a 2009. Release. However, Disney is going to compete.
January 19th, 2010 @9:11 pm
I did a search on their stock symbol, got a phone number, and called the number, only to have the person state that she could not provide any information. I am only speculating, but I am thinking maybe they (Guitar Rising) got sued (or threatened to be sued) by Rockband or Guitar Hero (or both) for their (Guitar Rising) product being too much like theirs (Rockband and Guitar Hero). I did a rudimentary search of the U.S. Patent Office’s web site, and not able to find any information on Gametank or Guitar Rising having a patent pending–Guitar Rising states they have a patent pending.
March 28th, 2010 @11:53 pm
Vaporware was first written back in the 80’s, originaly it was Things that don’t yet exist but we all wish did. One of the early computer magazines had a vaporware column/article every issue. Today most of those old wishes are reality. And a lot of things never thought up have come to be. We went from the Altair, Timex Sinclair, Commodre Vic 20 [with a whopping 5K of RAM], to todays laptops that are bigger and faster than the mainframes of back then were. Even cell phones now have more computing power than NASA had when it sent the Apollo missions to the Moon.
But it’s now 2010 and still no Guitar Rising, maybe it is real Vaporware, something we wish we had but doesn’t exist. And unless they got a patent on it someone can stil build one. Hint; programmers needed for a Linux type build, open source for a faster to us to use and overall better product. How about it? Anyone out there up for the challenge?
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