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Jefferoo posted:Considering my recent career boost I will probably be donating a bit to this once I start seeing some signs of actual gameplay. I'm cautious because Obsidian should be handling this, not inxile (which I think released 1 game in like its 10 years of existence and it was that terrible Bard's Tale remake)
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Madcosby posted:I guess I just don't see publishers playing the role they used to. It's incredibly common now a days for a developer (or team) to distribute their own product, so I guess I'm just confused by their decision to ask fans to fund a game. More teams may distribute their own product nowadays, but they have to get the money to make the product first.
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Wachepti posted:Woohoo! Donated. Now what I'm curious about is that 1 million number. Can anyone who has some experience in this industry chime in and talk about that? Does it seem kind of...low? Tim Schafer has stated that $2-$3 million is about the cost of a modern XBLA game, and Grim Fandango from 10 years ago was just below $3 million. So a game from the 80s could be remade for $1 million maybe?
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Rinkles posted:Pfff, amateurs. Check out this pro. Didn't we already have a thread about this guy or is this some other guy? DrManiac posted:[e] B..Bestow? Oh poo poo. That's who I was thinking of too.
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Armor-Piercing posted:The other thing is that they've proved there's money in the genre, which will probably attract more publisher attention and get funding for further games. I'm worried this Kickstarter stuff will do the opposite. Publishers now have a hard number that says that if Adventure Game Legend Tim Schafer wants to make a new adventure game, <100,000 people will pay up front, and that's only because he is a known figure in the industry. If an up and coming designer wants to make a small $3 million adventure game, he's hosed because publishers aren't going to want to pay for a product only 100,000 people might buy and he won't be able to raise the same amount as an unknown.
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Dominic White posted:They've been consistently hosed over by publishers (Bethesda promised them a completion bonus on New Vegas if it got a metascore of 85 or higher. It got an 84, mostly due to bugs. Bethesda did the QA) over the years, but they make drat fine RPGs.  Anyone who read the Brian Fargo interview from a couple of pages ago shouldn't be surprised that a lot of independent developers get hosed over by publishers.
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Mar 30, 2012 18:57
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Role Play McMurphy posted:Oh do you have the figures on how much those licensing fees and wages would cost? Please share. Especially considering how Obsidian just laid off a bunch of people, I don't know why dudes are expecting them to work for free.
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Mar 30, 2012 20:42
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adamarama posted:I think this will hit the target, I'm praying it does. Even if they can get to 2million with 2-3 days to go, there'll be a final surge to get it over the edge. It will be 1 dollar short of the goal needed to give Oblivion work.
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Mar 31, 2012 18:43
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greatBigJerk posted:It's not an incredibly pretty engine, but it's really easy to do an isometric camera with Unity 3d. There's a difference between using a fixed camera in a general engine and optimizing your engine specifically for an isometric viewpoint. Diablo 3, for instance, uses pseudo 2D sprites for their trees because it allows much more fine detail without using a lot of polygons.
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Apr 2, 2012 20:00
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Sigma-X posted:I might of missed it but Quarex what the hell is with the amount of personal interest and evangelism you're putting into this? What's your personal history with Wasteland such that you are putting this much effort into it? I don't know why Quarex's behavior seems so unusual. I would've thought the game industry would be full of enthusiastic people who are deeply truly stoked about games, even as adults.
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Apr 3, 2012 21:46
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signalnoise posted:He is a really really good games designer Shigeru Miyamoto's a really good games designer. Avellone's a really good writer (by video game standards), which is what you want in a game with a lot of dialogue.
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Apr 4, 2012 19:41
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BlondRobin posted:Triple-A titles are not going anywhere, but there's a couple of things you should understand. A LARGE portion of a triple-A game's budget is not spent on development. Certainly much more than the asking price or even the final result of any kickstarter- but much of that budget is spent on marketing. Hundreds of balloons released into the SF bay for Homefront. A Skyrim Dovahkiin picture on a wall. Countless banner ads, interstitial ads, video ads, ads ads ads. Triple-A titles are almost more of a marketing concern than they are a development concern; because they're built to reach an audience that cares little about gaming, and they need to maximize development time-sales ratio. While this is true, development costs, even absent of marketing, have been increasing steadily with each console generation because of an increase in art, programming, cinematics, voice work, and other requirements. AAA development costs are high enough that I don't see Kickstarter being able to produce that amount of funding any time soon. (Of course, marketing tends to be multiple times the development cost, so I'm not really disagreeing with you.)
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Apr 5, 2012 20:49
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YourAverageJoe posted:It's pretty much top-of-the-line tech, but I agree with pyrotek, creating the kinds of assets that show what you can do with this kind of engine takes a lot of resources, one of the MANY reasons why publishers don't like to take as many risks as they did in the past. Increasing graphics requirements is one of the primary reasons AAA budgets have been ballooning with each console generation. Inxile would be smart to prefer stylized art over extremely realistic high res art.
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Apr 14, 2012 21:07
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pixelbaron posted:This party is pretty intense... Makes you long for the old John Romero days when they actually would've hired strippers and Skrillex. And probably done coke in the bathroom. Now most game developers are boring middle aged men with kids.
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RagingBoner posted:Interesting article on the declining games industry, seems apropos to this thread: While I agree there should be a middle price point between $60 and $1/$15-20, what a terrible article: "Sales are down, therefore Angry Birds must be cutting into Call of Duty sales. Here's a quote from a guy who says all games will be freemium in the future." Ace reporting, Yahoo games blog.
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KillHour posted:I've never heard of Dragoncon, but it made me think of this, so I'm immediately creeped out by all of you. There's also this trip report from 2003 (which is almost a decade ago  ):http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/hearts-spandex-an.php http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/hearts-spandex-an-2.php
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