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Pochoclo posted:Here's a question for American McGee's American McGee, presented by American McGee. I've noticed that he thinks that his name is enough to carry the games he makes. I mean he was patting himself on the back years ago about how cheap it was to develop games in China, so I have a feeling that he's just hiring the cheapest people he can find rather than actual talent. Because he's AMERICAN MCGEE and that's all his games need.
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It would look a lot less sketchy if you just picked $3000 as a goal, without flexible funding. Even if it won't cover everything, you already said it will cover some licensing fees or whatever. That's definitely better than saying "throw some cash at us, or don't, I don't care."
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Feb 15, 2013 17:32
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Jonathan Yeah! posted:No gently caress-pillow? Nuts to that. Yeah if the rewards offered gently caress-pillows and $10,000 tiers for adding your own self-insert character the game would probably easily make it. It worked for that dumb gender change game!
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Apr 27, 2013 22:42
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miguelito posted:I'm not related to the project in any way, but the Son of Nor guys are legit - they have long-running threads on several German-speaking dev boards and I think I've talked to them once on a Jam. Yeah, I like Super Smash Brothers because I know who the characters are. That picture just made me wonder "why do I want to battle these characters again?" Plus the guy who is "a cat wearing clothes. that's it" is such lazy design.
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May 3, 2013 18:40
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What's sad is that even though Buckley is a terrible artist and a terrible person and there is all this legitimate criticism against him, diadem is just going to write it all off as "internet people having a dumb internet grudge." I'll be surprised if he responds in a way that isn't defensive.
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Sep 19, 2013 16:19
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Falcon2001 posted:Hey whoa what the gently caress? I think that's a little beyond the pale there. Them contracting him for a single card art doesn't make them in any way accomplices to his lovely previous behavior. Seriously, what the gently caress, man? Disregarding all other things, why pay him for card art when, next to all of the other artists, his work looks like amateur hour?
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Sep 20, 2013 13:52
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Falcon2001 posted:I'd absolutely never hire the guy myself or let him near a project I worked on, but that doesn't mean that they deserve the quote I replied to. I think I quoted the wrong post, sorry. In any case, his art is shameful next to the other art shown off by diadem that is being used in the project.
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Sep 20, 2013 22:03
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The Moon Monster posted:As someone who hasn't played Shantae, which I imagine is a lot of people, I can't really tell why it's supposed to be better than any other cartoony platformer. No shortage of those. Well it's by people who are actually good at making cartoony platformers, and have a long list of past releases to prove it, as opposed to any number of random nobodies. I've played Shantae: Risky's Revenge and enjoyed it and will probably pick up the Shantae game that's coming out soon (not this one) but I don't really have any loyalty to the particular character. I just know that it's going to be solid regardless. Maybe we can get WayForward to revisit Sigma Star Saga next? I'd totally throw down money for that.
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Sep 21, 2013 15:21
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Sunning posted:I checked out the names behind the game and they're most of them are legitimate. They seem to know their audience and have had a steady stream of backers. But if anyone feels that it's an awful kickstarter then I'll copy and paste in that thread. Pretty much any game kickstarter that's producing masturbation material is an awful kickstarter, what is wrong with you.
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Oct 5, 2013 14:17
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JordanKai posted:Even if the original Myst was real-time instead of pre-rendered it would look worse than RealMyst. I looked up screenshots, never having seen it before, but it looks more on the level of Morrowind than Quake II.
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Oct 23, 2013 02:21
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epitasis posted:She wears a skirt because Megaman is bad garbage. This isn't Mega Man, it's
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Dec 30, 2013 00:35
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It's kind of weird to pull "realism" out when you're playing a heroic character. There were some pretty drat heroic women throughout history even though they had to contend with all sorts of enforced gender roles nonsense.
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Jan 25, 2014 10:38
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I honestly wouldn't have cared if the developers came out and said "we wanted to tell a story about this guy" rather than dragging out "realism" and political correctness gone mad or whatnot. But I mean even if you did go with the (incorrect) line that women at that time were mostly property and stay at home childmakers in the medieval period (that's more an early/late modern thing because in the medieval period labour issues required men and women to do a lot of the same work) you have to keep in mind that you're playing a heroic character. Yes, it may try to be a realistic, low fantasy setting, but if you were playing a typical blacksmith the game would be about making horseshoes, going to church, helping drag in the harvest, and probably dying a bit early from famine or disease after never having traveled more than a few hundred meters from your place of birth. So with that in mind, you can go and find many examples of "heroic" women who travelled and fought as much as or more than men from their respective time periods. For instance, Joan of Arc, Mary Reid, Anne Bonny, Hua Mulan, just off the top of my head, plus this entire Wikipedia category that I have just discovered. So yeah if you're going to be playing as this badass hero blacksmith who travels and fucks up trained fighters in hand to hand combat it would be just as realistic regardless of the character's sex.
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Jan 25, 2014 21:11
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A Steampunk Gent posted:I'm pretty sure things weren't actually as bad as they're commonly made out to be (records show things because far worse under the formation of capitalism where the granted privileges and allowances of the peasant class went straight out the window) but yeah, I'll buy and eat a hat if the plot isn't a pulp power fantasy with a coat of GRRM-esque paint. There's a lot of misunderstanding out there about what the medieval period was. A lot of people (and honestly, me too before I took a European history course) think that it was some generalized time period between the fall of the Roman Empire and World War I or Napoleon or Pirates of the Carribean where people had castles I guess? I mean the transition between medieval and early modern periods was pretty much characterized by widespread economic changes that, among many, many other things, allowed people for the first time (in Europe) to say "women aren't allowed to do jobs X, Y, and Z and have to stay home and be property because of their sex". Before then you wouldn't even think of saying such things unless you really wanted to starve.
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Jan 25, 2014 21:59
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Clocks posted:As a girl who likes to play female characters, I always find it a bit off-putting when modern games don't have that option, unless the game is particularly character-based with a good story. Yeah, that's what got it for me. No one said anything about a lack of female character choices in, for example, The Witcher because the developers were clear that you were playing a particular male character (though I guess it helps that The Witcher was an established property and Geralt was an established main character.) They could have just said "oh, we're telling a story and the main character is a man." But nope, they just had to go on about "realism" and "political correctness."
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Jan 25, 2014 22:53
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Axegrinder posted:I apologize for posting this, but I think this is actually a masterful troll, rather than a guaranteed disaster. Can anyone tell for sure? I think it's a troll. The screenshots of code are a pair of demo scripts from the Unity website. I don't think anyone is actually braindead enough to think that screenshots of them would make them look like a skilled programmer.
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Feb 4, 2014 13:34
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Oxygencult posted:Those assets are found on the Unity asset store for 50 bucks. Stay Classy guys I guess it's possible that they downloaded Unity, bought some assets, followed some tutorials, and decided that they're ready to make the next zombie apocalypse heartbreaker. I mean when I was in elementary school my buddies and I wanted to make the next Doom and we got so pumped and when I got home I opened up QBasic and typed 10 PRINT "DOOM" and then just started at it for a while since I didn't know what to do next. These guys could be like that except that they're art of the Kickstarter generation so their Kickstarter comes before the "uhhhhhh" part.
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Feb 5, 2014 01:13
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That's a really gross art style. Is that really what's "in" right now?
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Feb 20, 2014 05:31
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MikeJF posted:It was a huge hit with Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, which did it extremely well and took the style mainstream, and since then there's been loads of people trying to rip it off. I know it's all a matter of taste but I've found my new least-favourite video game art style. It's like an attempt at "retro" that completely misses the point that sprites in old video games had much more going on then being low-resolution. I mean back in the day when people had limited sprite sizes to work with they found all sorts of tricks to make the sprites pop out of the background and have distinct and recognizable features. This just looks like muddy stick figures, if you can even see them to begin with when they're overlaid on top of the background. Edit: The backgrounds in that look amazing but I find the character sprites to be gag-inducing BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Feb 20, 2014 |
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Nition posted:Sick of Left 4 Dead, Day Z, World War Z (sorry, "Infestation: Survivor Stories") and Rust? Looking for a ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GAME? HAVE I GOT THE GAME FOR YOU! That's a repost of an earlier one with a new name. Also, Shayden 18 years of age. is a new member. The screenshot of the script taken directly from Unity's website being used as proof of how good at programming their programmer is is old though. Edit: I went through my history in the thread to locate the original: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/663271199/the-edge-of-extinction-online?ref=recently_launched
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It's one of those things where it's hard to tell if they're inept or if they're inept scammers. I mean, it could be that a bunch of kids downloaded Unity and some tutorials and dropped a bit of cash on the asset store and think they're ready to make the next zombie apocalypse heartbreaker. Or, some scammers who don't understand programming and game development tried really hard to make it look genuine but also wacky at the same time. Edit: The $110k of fake pledges makes me lean towards the latter BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Feb 24, 2014 |
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Feb 24, 2014 08:45
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The fake pledges have been rapidly dropping off. I checked earlier and it was at $90k, now it's at $30k.
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Feb 24, 2014 09:04
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CommissarMega posted:I don't think it's them- I was on 4chan just now (a man has his vices, after all), and apparently they caught sight of the KS and decided to gently caress around with it. And the project was deleted (for the third time) but this time the creator deleted his account. Is this the last we'll see of James K. Merrill???
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Feb 24, 2014 11:47
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My favourite part about Gunscape is that you can tell exactly which FPS the different graphics were inspired by without them being direct ripoffs. I just can't believe how good it looks, especially after the last few years of people thinking that old games looked like Minecraft or GLSL demos.
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Feb 26, 2014 17:12
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Drifter posted:Aside from my most favorite Wizardry 8, where else could I go looking for similar? If you have a Nintendo DS or 3DS there's the Etrian Odyssey series if the Japanese styling doesn't bother you. They're the same kind of deal and are balls to the wall hard.
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Feb 27, 2014 04:48
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Where the gently caress are these fake screen shots and why was I not informed we were making them? I want in! The official screenshots look fake enough. Seriously who designs a UI like that? It looks like promotional material where there should be a quick character bio and some bulletpoint facts, but instead is dialogue and responses. It would drive me nuts playing a game that looked like that (not even gonna talk about the hideous pony beast characters)
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Mar 12, 2014 08:03
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Wait, the game was fake? That was a lot of effort for a fake.
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Jay O posted:I do think the video is genuine to some extent: I think they were going to make a lovely game that starts off normal and does something within twenty minutes or so to, in their minds, ~gloriously troll~ the bronies and make fun of them for wanting to gently caress horses. (There are so many other more deeply nested things to mock bronies for, and calling them "gay horse-fuckers" isn't really very accurate nor funny nor does it make the ones making the jokes look like anything but bullies.) Probably assuming they couldn't really get sued for that, and to be fair, they might not, something like that was probably their plan. Oh well that's quite a bit more sad and pathetic than the dating sim would have been if it was made unironically.
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Whoa, that's really cool. After I first got the wall merging power in A Link Between Worlds I thought "oh great this is a really dumb gimmick" but Nintendo handled it so well that it didn't take me long to think it was the coolest part of the game. I think that if this is handled well it could be really fun. A new era in wall-based puzzle-adventure games???
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Mar 18, 2014 16:28
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Unity is incredible at certain kinds of games (especially first/third person shooter/platformers or physics games) but requires some serious wrangling to do some other things well, or at least a lot of gross hacks. I feel like some developers should do more research before leaping on it. It may be an attractive option because it's so easy to use on the surface and is kind of trendy right now but making a snap choice on those grounds can really bite you in the rear end later on.
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Ihmemies posted:There's this polish Fps kickstarter, Superhot, where time progresses when you move: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/375798653/superhot Someone should make a Doom mod that does that because good custom Doom maps are almost like bullet hell games as it is.
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No Gravitas posted:How is this not doing better? Maybe I'm a sucker for pixel art and time travel, but... It needs crafting obviously.
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Lets! Get! Weird! posted:All of this looks really cool minus the player character. That's because the player character was the only thing in those shots that wasn't redrawn from something good 
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Shalinor posted:American McGee takes a lot of poo poo, but he didn't outsource - what he did was move to China (IIRC), and form his studio there. He took the "move somewhere cheap before founding your business" strategy to its logical extreme, and in the process moved somewhere i gather he wanted to move anyways. His team's solid, too - he didn't recruit poo poo talent - it just so happens that the games on a whole haven't been very interesting. Most of that can probably be laid at the feet of "superstar designer founder that maybe needs more oversight / isn't actually a superstar designer," as usually happens with old names. He outsourced... himself 
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Shalinor posted:At last, someone has created a helpful rating system for Kickstarter risk. Though I feel like "is it an MMO" should be a whole other risk factor on its own. "Is it an MMO (or promise persistent multiplayer with larger numbers of players than most games)?" "4: Star Citizen"
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Shalinor posted:So FUNNY STORY. I found out about this thanks to Derek Smart. He's a friend of a friend on Facebook or something. He was denouncing Chris Roberts / talking about how absurd the money was, because hey, he's ALSO making giant stupd-huge scope space games, and gets by on way the hell less. It makes me wonder if Derek Smart would be able to pull of Star Citizen if he had the money and was willing to hire a bigger team than he usually gets by with. He's been making big space games for decades and probably has the sense to trim down the features list a little. Edit: It would still have that Derek Smart quality we've come to expect but at least it would get done BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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I can't believe there are people complaining about Steam's DRM in this Year of Our Luigi 2014 when it's one of the best things to happen to gaming and has largely done away with poo poo like Starforce.
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macnbc posted:Saying "Why complain about Steam when we used to have Starforce?" is like saying "Why complain that the bread is stale when we used to have it moldy?" It's irrational because Steam's DRM is essentially invisible and completely unintrusive so people who complain about it are just doing so on ideological grounds rather than practical ones. The industry isn't going to give up DRM for new releases so they may as well use one that you don't even know is there unless someone tells you it is.
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The White Dragon posted:Everything is fine and dandy until someone encounters a continuous rumble glitch and dies on live stream. At which point everything becomes fantastic. As a nuclear engineer I'm used to designing multiple layers of safety interlocks into everything. These guys, though... 
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Megazver posted:So Sketch Tales is, uh, a sandbox procedurally generated action RPG + Drawn to Life. It's developed by some more of the former STALKER devs and the lead apparently sold his apartment to finance the prototype. poo poo, hope it works out for him. I would say "don't quit your day job" and/or "don't sell your apartment" if I saw that but I guess it's too late for either
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