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http://www.gamerecruiter.com/services/virtual-career-expo/ I could have sworn this was supposed to be today. I got an e-mail from someone about it with today's date as when it was supposed to happen, and I do recall when I looked it over back in February it did say April. I was really looking forward to this too 
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Going to the OC beer Wednesday tonight. Identifying marks: friendly squid T-shirt. Perhaps I will see some of you there?
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Hope so! And Jim's back from his surgery, so it won't be nearly as dead as it was last week.
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Sigma-X posted:I would like to share with you all the best/worst thing about the games industry, in a single contextless quote: I worked with 40k, that sounds pretty normal and on topic to me.
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FreakyZoid posted:Paid is a barrier to entry vs free. Doesn't matter how small the price is, you've still caused a moment of friction that doesn't need to exist. Look up the "penny gap" for more info on studies etc. around this. Especially if your game has retention based around a social component, you really want as many players as possible since they're still adding non-monetary value to your game. I came across an interesting series of articles that presents a more detailed way of looking at this problem. The first two are more about piracy, while the third one extends it to the recent pay-what-you-want trend, but they can be generalized to most business models dealing with digital goods.
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Apr 19, 2012 03:13
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Etheldreda posted:Going to the OC beer Wednesday tonight. Identifying marks: friendly squid T-shirt. Perhaps I will see some of you there? Hoping to make it next week, I'm exhausted and still trying to get settled in. Next week I ought to make it.
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We 'finally' announced our new game that I am working on... Gotta say, Unity is pretty baller, working on a mobile game is really fun for me, personally, as it's quite quick to get everything up and running to a good level of polish. F2P and all those other market trends 
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Apr 19, 2012 16:16
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Fishbus posted:We 'finally' announced our new game that I am working on... Looks awesome. Love the art direction (nice color choices). The trailer was great, too! Love the "GUYS!" part.
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Apr 19, 2012 16:22
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Fishbus posted:We 'finally' announced our new game that I am working on... "...free-to-play console game coming next year." Do you happen to know which one? I think last time anyone bothered speaking to MS and Sony about such things they basically said "no plans", and I imagine that if either of them ARE going to support F2P that's going to shake their cert process up no end (hopefully for the better hahahaha it'll be worse).
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Apr 19, 2012 16:54
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Fishbus posted:We 'finally' announced our new game that I am working on... Looking forward to play this, the video looks really fun and interesting. We actually had an idea of doing something simillar (combat, turn based game) based on the Kingdom Rush world.
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Apr 19, 2012 18:05
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Fishbus posted:We 'finally' announced our new game that I am working on... I would be looking forward to this, but I have a 'droid and you are not supporting it. Which is basically racism.
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Apr 19, 2012 18:07
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http://www.flashpointacademy.com/graduates/game.html - How not to write a bio.
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Apr 19, 2012 21:07
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mutata posted:http://www.flashpointacademy.com/graduates/game.html - How not to write a bio. I find bios incredibly painful to read to begin with...What are the highlights?
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fookolt posted:I find bios incredibly painful to read to begin with...What are the highlights? Soandso's whole life revolves around video games. Therefore, Soandso must be awesome at making video games.
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Jan posted:Soandso's whole life revolves around video games. Therefore, Soandso must be awesome at making video games. One might even call them "passionate" about video games.
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fookolt posted:I find bios incredibly painful to read to begin with...What are the highlights? "After his childhood friends moved away when he was young, Tracy began playing video games. With his dreams as inspiration, Tracy hopes to one day immortalize a part of himself in a game."
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Ferdinand is also depressing; his passion for games stems from parental neglect.
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mutata posted:Where exactly are the "wilds" of Michigan? When all you do is play video games, the outside as a whole is transmuted into a veritable jungle of terror.
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mutata posted:Where exactly are the "wilds" of Michigan? Detroit?
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^^^^^^^^  mutata posted:Where exactly are the "wilds" of Michigan? Detroit
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I know there's been talk of Kickstarters and press releases a lot in this thread, and I figured I would point out that on the latest Giant Bombcast, they make a few jokes about setting up an e-mail filter to send any press release mentioning Kickstarter to the trash. Wouldn't be surprised if this was true for other members of the press, as well.
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Chainclaw posted:I know there's been talk of Kickstarters and press releases a lot in this thread, and I figured I would point out that on the latest Giant Bombcast, they make a few jokes about setting up an e-mail filter to send any press release mentioning Kickstarter to the trash. Wouldn't be surprised if this was true for other members of the press, as well. Glad to see that middle schoolers don't have the monopoly on the whole "hating things because they're popular" thing.
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Apr 19, 2012 21:37
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mutata posted:Where exactly are the "wilds" of Michigan? Contrary to popular belief, the upper peninsula still hasn't been annexed by Canada yet.
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Maybe I'm just oblivious to the world but I don't get why people don't like kickstarter. It almost seems like the future to me.
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concerned mom: I am inclined to agree. Getting people to pay up-front has the particularly attractive side effect that you can take piracy out of the equation, provided you can pick a good price-point up front and obtain backers. By the time the game is released you've recouped your losses and any further sales are gravy. Of course, this all depends on your ability to demonstrate a good track record and deliver on your promises.
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Cause people hate when you spend money on things! (Stupid Shadowrun thread) Bad enough they said that only nostalgia will be the main factor.
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concerned mom posted:Maybe I'm just oblivious to the world but I don't get why people don't like kickstarter. It almost seems like the future to me. I think the fallout from Star Command's Kickstarter is a pretty good example: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starcommand/star-command-sci-fi-meets-gamedev-story-for-ios-an/posts People went nuts over how these guys spent their money, and a lot of people don't understand that Kickstarter isn't an investment. PA Report has a big article on it: http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/the-ugly-side-of-kickstarter-why-the-risks-in-backing-gaming-campaigns-are- Now that people are getting "burned" by Kickstarter, the public perception is really changing directions on it. It's also quickly becoming a sign of "you don't know what you're doing" to the press and other people. While there are some fantastic Kickstarters for video games (I think Kickstarters for things like board games are almost always amazing: the game's usually done, they just want to get a good print run in), most of the Kickstarters are just poorly done. Look at the Star Command one, they had no concept of what the cost of their rewards would be, and about a third of the money they got went right back into prize fulfillment.
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Chainclaw posted:I know there's been talk of Shitfarters and press releases a lot in this thread, and I figured I would point out that on the latest Giant Bombcast, they make a few jokes about setting up an e-mail filter to send any press release mentioning Shitfarter to the trash. Wouldn't be surprised if this was true for other members of the press, as well. Toucharcade editorial policy is now not to post shitfarters. I remember the Destructoid guy saying the same thing, too. I don't think it's so much a "WELL IT'S POPULAR, SO I HATE IT" thing. It's probably more along the lines of them getting dozens of cover my shitfarter stories per day now, due to everyone seeing Doublefine's success with it. That's when the flood started. And yeah, the realities of a lot of them failing, Doublefine's end results from it not even being proven yet, and all people that have no idea what they're doing, going after that sweet free money.
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I'm also not trying to hate on anyone who wants to try doing a Kickstarter. It was mostly a "hey be aware that public perception on this might be shifting soon." I know that many people in the industry are still on the side of "This is a magical wonderful tool, what could go wrong?" We get to find out what can go wrong now that the initial rush of Kickstarted projects after Double Fine's are ending. Also, without the traditional publisher or investor relationship, I'm curious how many Kickstarted projects are going to be left to dry at like 90% completion. What do you do at that point, if your money runs out and the end is in sight? There's no one to beg for more money.
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Like any fad, it'll crash for a while, then build up again. Once people get bored with it they'll start hating it, then when they get bored of hating it they'll move on and leave the people who are still interested in it.
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Chainclaw posted:
This is great, thanks for posting it. It kind of reaffirms what I've thought and puts it into words. Kickstarter is so exciting and the real, serious projects are so awesome that the idea of so-called news outlets getting sick of it and refusing to report on it rubs me the wrong way, but fads is fads.
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I assume there's some legal liability on the part of kickstarter developers to come through with their projects if the project is part of the reward. Otherwise they could just start a kickstarter for something, take the money and run.
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djkillingspree posted:I assume there's some legal liability on the part of kickstarter developers to come through with their projects if the project is part of the reward. Otherwise they could just start a kickstarter for something, take the money and run. Kickstarter is very careful to ensure that no one thinks of Kickstarter backers as investors. Kickstarter's policy on it is, it's your job to do your homework as a backer. If the budget is unreasonable or the project seems too good to be true, don't become a backer. http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backing%20a%20project#WhoIsRespForFulfThePromOfAProj So yeah, there's nothing stopping you from taking the money and running. vvvvv yep there are guidelines on what you can fund on Kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines Chainclaw fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Apr 19, 2012 |
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Chainclaw posted:Kickstarter is very careful to ensure that no one thinks of Kickstarter backers as investors. Kickstarter's policy on it is, it's your job to do your homework as a backer. If the budget is unreasonable or the project seems too good to be true, don't become a backer. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's considered putting up a kickstarter with a £2 goal. "I'm going to the pub, and I really want a pint." Unfortunately they seem to have rules against that too 
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If I ever got cancer, I'd start one. "Kickstart me not dying! $100 gets your name in the credits, executive producer credit in 'me living' and this t-shirt! $1000 gets you a piece of my surgically-removed tumor that I've named 'Larry'!"
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Category Fun! posted:I'm sure I'm not the only one who's considered putting up a kickstarter with a £2 goal. "I'm going to the pub, and I really want a pint." There was a kickstarter whose goal was to buy kickstarter. I don't know if it's still around.
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While we're on the topic of Kickstarter again, I'm just wondering if anyone has some good resources for how to pitch a project? I'm thinking of starting one up in the near future when my personal project reaches a point where it's good enough to show off, but I'm absolutely terrible at trying to sell my ideas. Especially since my project is reasonably derivative (2D retro metroidvania platformer), I can't really seem to find a good way to sell it. Of course there's a good chance that even with a perfect pitch it won't gain any traction since the genre isn't really all that underserved and I don't have any name recognition, but hey, if there's a chance that I could go indie full-time I'd feel foolish not to at least take a stab at it.
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mutata posted:Glad to see that middle schoolers don't have the monopoly on the whole "hating things because they're popular" thing. I would imagine they're getting flooded by trash Kickstarters, though. Just absolutely inundated in bullshit.
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 This image right here from the Penny Arcade article has been my motto since I started making my game. I am not going to Kickstarter until I've met some very, very clear goals since this is the first "complete" game I'm making. Right now, those goals are:
Of course, then I see every other Kickstarter from small, inexperienced indies and I just want to weep.
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