Dino Dini on the return of Kick Off

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http://media.edge-online.com/wp-content/uploads/edgeonline/2013/02/kickoff2.jpg (http://media.edge-online.com/wp-content/uploads/edgeonline/2013/02/kickoff2.jpg)Dino Dini is working out how to reimagine his classic football series Kick Off for new platforms, he confirmed today at GDC Europe.Speaking as part of an entertaining postmortem of his work, which took in the making of Kick Off, its sequel, Player Manager and Dino Dini’s Soccer, the development veteran said he has been developing game projects in his spare time, and is trying to decide how best to bring back his most famous creation for current game platforms.When he was asked whether he’d considered re-releasing Kick Off for iPhone, Dini replied: “Even though I’ve not being publishing games as Dino Dini, I still develop games and I work on prototypes. What holds me back from going to market is figuring out a sustainable business model. I’m not alone in this – other indie developers out there are doing this and they tend to follow the pattern of just scraping by all of the time. But in my own time, I do a lot of research into things and so one of the things I’ve obviously looked at is the question of how to reimagine those early games for that platform.”He added that making games for devices like iPad require a very different way of thinking – hence the delay in any firm news on the return of Kick Off.“You have to go to the touch screen and you have to really think carefully about how to use that,” added Dini. “I’d say the solution is definitely not to just sort of mimic a joystick – that doesn’t work too well. You have to re-think it. So I’ve been doing work on that but that’s all I want to say at this point because it’s just preliminary work.“

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