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Migishu
Oct 22, 2005

I'll eat your fucking eyeballs if you're not careful

Grimey Drawer

Vintersorg posted:

i think im gonna sink some cash into their dlc, so many good ones there, T2, pinbot, Twilight Zone, loving Star Trek - maybe they'll get that awesome Guns N Roses one

With the copyright on the GnR songs (and faces) in mystical voodoo land, good luck

Axl Rose release the sphincter

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GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

you idiots, gamepad supremacy for pinball arcade

index fingers on flippers, left thumb on the stick for nudging, right thumb on the launch button for games that use it. gently caress trying to tap the tiny fuckin launch button at the top corner of your ipad/iphone

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

and yet i've blown like 60 bucks on ios pinball arcade tables :retrogames:

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Proteus4994 posted:

roguelike (translation: i can't do level design)?

but but but my emergent gameplay :byodood:

Proteus4994
Jan 2, 2001

Do not engage. Just tell me to go back to Kiwi Farms where I waste days upon days crying about how I wasted years upon years on SA. Did you know I was personally responsible for SA's rise in popularity in the 00's? It's true! Just come to the Farms and find out how! It's the trash kingdom I deserve.

01011001 posted:

but but but my emergent gameplay :byodood:

after a while you learn how to decode these indie developers' steam descriptions

8-bit/retro graphics = i can't do artwork
chiptunes/"remixed" music = i can't do sound
random/procedurally generated levels = i can't do gameplay or design
old-school difficulty = i sure as poo poo can't beat this game, maybe someone else can
developed by one person = i am completely insufferable

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010

spelunky is like 3/5 of those and it owns though

graphics are actually p cool tho and not 'omg retro'

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
Brad McQuaid's Everquest Redux isn't doing so well.



Given that his last game (Vanguard) just got shut down by Sony yeah, I doubt I'd throw money at this guy either.

Basically he mismanaged everything and lied to Microsoft about the progress of the game, at one point ginning up a heavily scripted demo he presented as a finished product. Then when the axe came he literally fled and left some middle managers (who were having an affair with eachother) to gather all the employees in the parking lot and let them know they were fired. Also for the majority of the game's production they had one QA guy.

From an Ex Employee:

quote:

There is only one person on the VR team who writes actual code. Ask ANYone who's ever worked on a small team project or a startup whether your first 11 people should look like this:

Vision guy - B. Mcquaid
Engineer - J. Weimann
Artist (concept) - J. Rochelle
Artist (props) - F. Beleno
Artist (environment) - V. Nguyen
PR guy - B. de la Durantaye
Designer - S. Grant
Designer - T. Garcia
Designer - N. Walling
Designer - C. Lefever
Designer - L. Gullo

Personality defects aside, none of these designers can write useable code for an MMO. I know this because I've worked with most of them, some directly, some indirectly.

Fwiw, it should look more like:

Vision guy/CEO (gets dat money)
Engineer (server and backend)
Engineer (tools and pipeline)
Engineer (gameplay)
Engineer (gameplay/AI)
Artist (concept and props)
Artist (props)
Artist (environment)
Designer (systems and content, must have excellent excel/scripting/writing skills)
Designer (systems and content, must have excellent excel/scripting/writing skills)
PR guy


As for myself, I was one of those unfortunates fired in the parking lot (still employed in MMOs though!), so I have a certain negative reaction to seeing Brad's shenanigans once again in full swing. It looks like this ill-thought-out project probably won't make it, so at least he won't be rewarded again for deceiving folks, but even people who don't know much about game design or MMO production should be able to understand production bottlenecks. With their current team of SOE/Trion castoffs and their egregious lack of technical skills (not a personal attack per se - this is a problem endemic to MMO designers), they would have no chance of producing a playable anything even WITH plenty of funding and a real game design document, which I do not believe they even have.

Adult Sword Owner
Jun 19, 2011

u deserve diploma for sublime comedy expertise

Proteus4994 posted:

after a while you learn how to decode these indie developers' steam descriptions

8-bit/retro graphics = i can't do artwork
chiptunes/"remixed" music = i can't do sound
random/procedurally generated levels = i can't do gameplay or design
old-school difficulty = i sure as poo poo can't beat this game, maybe someone else can
developed by one person = i am completely insufferable

every rpg with pregenerated levels is poo poo though

Proteus4994
Jan 2, 2001

Do not engage. Just tell me to go back to Kiwi Farms where I waste days upon days crying about how I wasted years upon years on SA. Did you know I was personally responsible for SA's rise in popularity in the 00's? It's true! Just come to the Farms and find out how! It's the trash kingdom I deserve.
every time you see "developed by one person" you should think of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIn1_9YvGds

Proteus4994
Jan 2, 2001

Do not engage. Just tell me to go back to Kiwi Farms where I waste days upon days crying about how I wasted years upon years on SA. Did you know I was personally responsible for SA's rise in popularity in the 00's? It's true! Just come to the Farms and find out how! It's the trash kingdom I deserve.

Dead Inside Darwin posted:

every rpg with pregenerated levels is poo poo though

the traditional rpg is poo poo in general, roguelikes are a particularly lazy version of rpgs

e: also i get the feeling you're talking about jrpgs. black isle's rpgs were incredible and were pregenerated

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Proteus4994 posted:

every time you see "developed by one person" you should think of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atlAr5kdpQM
:shobon:

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1294225970/kingdom-come-deliverance

yup let me just kickstart this ambitious game that's about 2 years away from their projected release date no way that could go badly

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
on second thought never mind because that game was clearly playtested by eric chahi and no-goddamn-one else

stoutfish
Oct 8, 2012

by zen death robot
desktop dungeons is actually a puzzle game

Vicas
Dec 9, 2009

Sweet tricks, mom.

Orbi posted:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1294225970/kingdom-come-deliverance

yup let me just kickstart this ambitious game that's about 2 years away from their projected release date no way that could go badly

they'll be getting so much money now there's no way they could squander it all and have nothing to show by the end, i'm sure

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010

Vicas posted:

they'll be getting so much money now there's no way they could squander it all and have nothing to show by the end, i'm sure

i mean at the very least they say they're using it to show their investor that there's an audience so he can dump more money

which is smarter than most

Locker Room Zubaz
Aug 8, 2006

:horse:
~*~THE SECRET OF THE MAGICAL CRYSTALS IS THAT I'M FUCKING TERRIBLE~*~

:horse:
Mount and blade was fun as heck if mount and blade had dungeons it would be the best niche horse/sword fighting game ever made

Metal Pink Babble
Mar 31, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

Dead Inside Darwin posted:

every rpg with pregenerated levels is poo poo though

everyone else fails at fuushigina forum except for us-tachi. an ambiguated mutual omedetou gozaimasune to us both then.

ANIME MONSTROSITY
Jun 1, 2012

by XyloJW

Metal Pink Babble posted:

everyone else fails at fuushigina forum except for us-tachi. an ambiguated mutual omedetou gozaimasune to us both then.

Pygmy Pyrosaur
Jun 29, 2007

Welcome to
Kitty City

Proteus4994 posted:

every time you see "developed by one person" you should think of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIn1_9YvGds

should clearly be a ullillillia's platform masters link

Proteus4994
Jan 2, 2001

Do not engage. Just tell me to go back to Kiwi Farms where I waste days upon days crying about how I wasted years upon years on SA. Did you know I was personally responsible for SA's rise in popularity in the 00's? It's true! Just come to the Farms and find out how! It's the trash kingdom I deserve.

Mullet Odor posted:

Mount and blade was fun as heck if mount and blade had dungeons it would be the best niche horse/sword fighting game ever made

there are so many things wrong with mount and blade, it's buggy as gently caress, half the poo poo is missing/not working, and the endgame is sloggy as poo poo.

and yet it's easily one of my favorite games of all time

Tangra
May 1, 2008

Rrrreligion?

It's the catnip of the purrrrrrrrletariat


Mad about your :10bux: ?

:haw:

lol I read that as Tangro

was about to summon my legal team

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Tangra posted:

lol I read that as Tangro

was about to summon my legal team

Adult Sword Owner
Jun 19, 2011

u deserve diploma for sublime comedy expertise

hahaha the heatsink isnt on the processor

5

gold

Proteus4994
Jan 2, 2001

Do not engage. Just tell me to go back to Kiwi Farms where I waste days upon days crying about how I wasted years upon years on SA. Did you know I was personally responsible for SA's rise in popularity in the 00's? It's true! Just come to the Farms and find out how! It's the trash kingdom I deserve.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


no you see the heat goes from the left to the right using :science:science so its fine

Tangra
May 1, 2008

Rrrreligion?

It's the catnip of the purrrrrrrrletariat


Mad about your :10bux: ?

:haw:

Caged posted:

no you see the heat goes from the left to the right using :science:science so its fine

perfhaps its using liquid to circulate or something, surely the cursory diagram is exactly how it'll be built :science: :colbert:

Adult Sword Owner
Jun 19, 2011

u deserve diploma for sublime comedy expertise

Caged posted:

no you see the heat goes from the left to the right using :science:science so its fine

Its going to involve mother loving heat transfer pipes I'm tellin you

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


i hope it's liquid so every time it's docked and undocked the fluid levels go down a bit.

and units built at different times have slightly different coolant that doesn't like to mix so when you take your 6 month old pc round to use with a week old dock it fucks it up. like the zip drive click of death for the modern era.

Vicas
Dec 9, 2009

Sweet tricks, mom.
what if we took the heat and put it all in the usb ports, so that some of the cooling could be done through your peripheries?

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

avatar
specialist


http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cafe-chat-l-heureux-montreal

video has english subs, tl;dr is give me 40k to somehow start a café with cats in it that won't be in violation of a bunch of laws.

Adult Sword Owner
Jun 19, 2011

u deserve diploma for sublime comedy expertise

surebet posted:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cafe-chat-l-heureux-montreal

video has english subs, tl;dr is give me 40k to somehow start a café with cats in it that won't be in violation of a bunch of laws.

Sorry this isn't the best kickstarters thread

Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"


Pocketable, Officeable, Entertainmentable, Gameable, Windowsable, Linuxable

Vicas
Dec 9, 2009

Sweet tricks, mom.
the idea was, unsurprisingly, stolen from the Japanese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_PTiL6Zwfo

Yodzilla
Apr 29, 2005

Now who looks even dumber?

Beef Witch
catfe

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


weede catte cafe

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

san francisco just got their first cat cafe. hopin this idea spreads like bubble tea

stoutfish
Oct 8, 2012

by zen death robot
i'll start the kickstarter for host clubs and maid cafes

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast
there should be like slut cafes

where the girls take off their clothes and bring you booze

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GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

isn't that called a strip club

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