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Can somebody post a good summary of this mess or something? I have a lot of popcorn, but not 10 hours of time to sift through the chaos.
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Mirificus posted:The first hearing for the case against The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers writer is supposed to be on June 12th. The plaintiffs have posted a "Pretrial Message" on their website: Does anywhere have a summary of what this all about?
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Jun 9, 2014 22:26
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Another entry on their blog summarizes things: http://versusjs.blogspot.ca/2014/04/joint-statement-regarding-criminal-case.html Apparently the guy actually managed to put together and ship his DVD but I wonder how it turned out.
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Jun 9, 2014 22:53
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I have my doubts about whether either group has effectively made the jump to adulthood.
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Jun 9, 2014 22:54
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Great Rumbler posted:I have my doubts about whether either group has effectively made the jump to adulthood. I wouldn't put much stock in any side of the equation at this point but if I had to choose I'd go with the side that hasn't written 5000+ word blog posts about how mentally unbalanced everybody on other side is.
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Jun 9, 2014 23:05
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Mirificus posted:The first hearing for the case against The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers writer is supposed to be on June 12th. The plaintiffs have posted a "Pretrial Message" on their website: Isn't this exactly the sort of thing that lawyers tell their clients not to do?
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Jun 9, 2014 23:21
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DoctorTristan posted:Isn't this exactly the sort of thing that lawyers tell their clients not to do? it is the exact thing a good one would say not to do.
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Jun 9, 2014 23:25
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Drifter posted:it is the exact thing a good one would say not to do. Oh boy.  Then again, this whole brouhaha has been prime material. They were made for each other, they're all massive babies.
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Jun 9, 2014 23:31
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This part of their message really stands out to me:quote:If Agness never gets another contract in the games industry — an industry littered with childish behaviour — she can always move on to less stressful things. And if I never see another dime of venture funding, I can always do contract work. We will be just fine. I just really can't figure out what possessed them to write something like that.
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Jun 9, 2014 23:38
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Great Rumbler posted:This part of their message really stands out to me: Everyone involved seems like they have problems but everything this guy writes just drips with victimhood. It's really offputting. I hope everyone loses this case.
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Jun 9, 2014 23:46
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Kibayasu posted:I wouldn't put much stock in any side of the equation at this point but if I had to choose I'd go with the side that hasn't written 5000+ word blog posts about how mentally unbalanced everybody on other side is. So, neither side.
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Jun 9, 2014 23:46
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Drifter posted:it is the exact thing a good one would say not to do. They were probably worried that him being the sole voice in the public discourse would be damaging even if they won the trial. It's pretty easy for someone's reputation to be ruined regardless of how a trial goes. That said, this dude is clearly insane and is already doing enough to undermine himself and they could probably just let him self-destruct... I don't know that there's any good way to engage. E: And they don't seem to be helping themselves much either....
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Jun 9, 2014 23:46
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RIP ZEEZ
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Did someone post his rebuttal yet, with email excerpts and all that jazz? Good stuff. I would but I'm on my phone.
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Jun 10, 2014 00:35
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Can we just make a Kickstarter drama thread in YCS or something because this entire situation is so /facepalm
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Jun 10, 2014 00:59
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Kenshin posted:Can we just make a Kickstarter drama thread in YCS or something? (it would be nice if someone had actual Kickstarter news, though - all the ones I was following finished)
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Jun 10, 2014 01:06
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foutre posted:That said, this dude is clearly insane and is already doing enough to undermine himself and they could probably just let him self-destruct... I don't know that there's any good way to engage. If they are actually harassing random people loosely involved with the project they are just as bad as him if not worse.
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Jun 10, 2014 01:37
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IShallRiseAgain posted:If they are actually harassing random people loosely involved with the project they are just as bad as him if not worse. Yeah, they said something about negligence charges? I don't know what exactly that entails but that's pretty hosed up... My favorite bit though was that he self-describes as "allergic to wifi".
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Jun 10, 2014 02:28
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HomeMake looks pretty cool. Kind of surreal.
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Jun 10, 2014 03:15
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Pavlov posted:HomeMake looks pretty cool. Kind of surreal. Risks and challenges: there may not be enough lsd in the world to allow us to fully express our vision.
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Jun 10, 2014 04:21
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/emberstorm/black-cats-story-an-off-the-wall-humor-filled-adve?ref=discovery Black Cat is an abomination and I kind of want to make it happen to see how awful it is. I'm likely going to throw it money just to put a friend in the game and have him do humiliating things and be immortalized in this game forever because it's terrible.
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Jun 10, 2014 04:31
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CaptainScraps posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/emberstorm/black-cats-story-an-off-the-wall-humor-filled-adve?ref=discovery What the ever loving gently caress am I looking at.
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Jun 10, 2014 04:42
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Gooby pls (back this Kickstarter)
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IShallRiseAgain posted:If they are actually harassing random people loosely involved with the project they are just as bad as him if not worse. My favorite part is them saying they may bring charges against the backers as well. Good luck with that!
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Jun 10, 2014 05:03
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CaptainScraps posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/emberstorm/black-cats-story-an-off-the-wall-humor-filled-adve?ref=discovery
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Jun 10, 2014 05:13
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Spazzle posted:Risks and challenges: there may not be enough lsd in the world to allow us to fully express our vision. Between Tangiers and Yume Nikki, I think it has been proven that a finite amount of acid can express an infinite amount of crazy. In fact, with acid it is probably easier to do infinities over finite quantities. EDIT: Actual R&C says they are architects. We are going to get a game with a shitload of buildings.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:37
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Shalinor posted:Quiet you, my popcorn just finished popping In actual Kickstarter news, Massive Chalice will be releasing on the Xbox One as a console exclusive sometime after the PC release. Naturally, this has lead to many idiots commenting on how betrayed they are that the PC game they backed won't be coming to either the PS4 or Wii U.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:56
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Is it still much much easier to port a PC game to XBox than the other two or is that no longer applicable this generation. (Just curious)
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Jun 10, 2014 06:02
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By all accounts the PS4 is the easiest to port to but it and the XBone are similar in architecture.
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Well I think it's meant to be a lot easier to port a DirectX engine to XBone but come to think of it I doubt that's all that relevant here; there'll be an OGL version for Mac and I suspect they'll probably be building on a preexisting engine anyway. I'm sure it's just Microsoft paying them.
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Jun 10, 2014 06:30
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No Gravitas posted:Between Tangiers and Yume Nikki, I think it has been proven that a finite amount of acid can express an infinite amount of crazy. In fact, with acid it is probably easier to do infinities over finite quantities. When you say Tangiers, for a while I thought you were making some kind of political statement about the geographical location. But you mean there's a weird-rear end game with the same name, don't you?
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Jun 10, 2014 06:50
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Focacciasaurus_Rex posted:When you say Tangiers, for a while I thought you were making some kind of political statement about the geographical location. But you mean there's a weird-rear end game with the same name, don't you?
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Jun 10, 2014 06:56
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4 days left on SuperHOT and they're at 200 percent of their goal, with only two stretch goals remaining (NewGame+ and a level editor, which would be pretty cool to have). Glad to see this doing well, the demo is just too strong.
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Jun 10, 2014 08:40
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Pavlov posted:HomeMake looks pretty cool. Kind of surreal. This is really inspired. Shame it had such a weak start, I'd play the poo poo out of it. I hope their backing rate increases at some point.
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Jun 10, 2014 08:57
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There's a new visual novel translation taking place. The story seems to be about economics and it's written by the person who wrote Spice and Wolf, which is generally considered pretty good. Seems like it would be worth checking out if you're into that sort of thing. I couldn't find that much about it with a casual google, but thankfully there seems to be no evidence of any of the skeeviness that infects an awful lot of the genre. Just a boy, and the dreams of venture capitalism (on the moon).
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Jun 10, 2014 10:44
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The first episode of World End Economica already came out in English. The translation was initially a little rough but they did another pass on it and it's fine now. There's no pornographic or adult content in it or anything, so don't worry about that.
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Jun 10, 2014 10:47
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I'm getting really tired of these Mighty No 9 updates. It was a game where all the major programming hurdles were solved by '92, how much more creator-promotion spam do they intend to send out before they release the game?
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Cheekio posted:I'm getting really tired of these Mighty No 9 updates. It was a game where all the major programming hurdles were solved by '92, how much more creator-promotion spam do they intend to send out before they release the game? You can shut off notifications from them in your Kickstarter settings, and you probably don't have to worry about missing any really important news because it's such a high profile game.
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Cheekio posted:I'm getting really tired of these Mighty No 9 updates. It was a game where all the major programming hurdles were solved by '92
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Orzo posted:What is this even supposed to mean? It means every single one of these emails is some incredibly minor status update or a "HEY GUYS VOTE ON THE NEXT <thing>!" Come on dudes, you're making the game, decide yourself. It was cute at first with some of the villains or whatever but now it's just annoying.
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What does that have to do with programming hurdles that have supposedly been solved since 1992?
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