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IncredibleIgloo posted:What did you think of the interview? How did people at that office seem? The office was actually cool as poo poo, I noticed a guy duel-screening 34" ultra-wide curved monitors - sitting on what looked like a La-Z-Boy recliner with speakers (no joke). Everybody looked like they belonged in a 10-man indie studio, it's difficult to spot a dude without a tattoo or a beard - or both, and there was way more women than I expected. I was only 25% trying to get the job - 75% certain I would turn it down, the interview was very relaxed over coffee - more of a meet and greet, I was asked to explain my skills and why I wanted the role, and they told me some baseline information about their projects and ambitions. I basically just did it for the experience when I discovered that Cloud Imperium had a site less than 5 miles from where I live - I was also welcomed to re-apply after I told them I wouldn't be attending the second interview. Laserpig fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Aug 5, 2017 |
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OK, come watch me gently caress about in the snow and try not to get eaten within the first 10 mins. https://www.twitch.tv/xaerael_endiel
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Are they literally 428 people now? Holy moly. That $3 million per month bare minimum estimate needs an update.
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G0RF posted:I hear you. I'm definitely going to revisit this and refine over time. Just to add to the validation sandwich: what I liked were the "subheadings" you also used, the bias focus and pie names. The idea could be extended to adding a passive/active overlay, eg that the extremes are more active than the centre but each pie piece has its own overlay of active/passive. I'm being very yin/yang/i ching about this, it already has the oracular feel to it  quote:Which reminds me. I noticed that /DS didn't archive Derek's tweet of the graphic, even though he called himself a Heretic, Hater, and Troll in the process, which is exactly what they believe of him. Very interesting. They're afraid of the implications of accepting it, and probably feel trolled by it, since it's not a direct reference to the One True Game but to them. If they accept it, they're accepting a form of branding and also that they are practically Prester Jane's Narrativists. They're a good candidate for that idea because they have very strong Narrative Dysphoria right now and have had a few compaction cycles already, and I'm thinking the next major tipping point will be the con, after which they really will get hysterical.
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Chris Roberts creates hologram technology at a CIG meeting: Guys, after the cafeteria scene I want a briefing scene... with the mission giver as a hologram! (Development team nods, somebody dares to say "ok") Hologram technology. Yes, we'll do some transparent model- I said a hologram you stupid fuckers. Not a problem, we can make a shader- That's not a loving hologram. I want a real hologram. Mass Effect had- You dense motherfuckers. I am not going to cheat the digital hologram. We're going to make a real genuine system for a hologram. ! Lets discuss how we're going to invent hologram technology for the game here. My briefing scene loving needs this before GamesCon for our cinematic experience, I just wrote the script for it yesterday, and we need it now. After you fucks understand what I want, I'm off to the Imaginarum to start motion capturing the briefing scene. Yes sir. I will be pissed if this is not ready, and somebody will be fired, and I swear you will never work in this industry again. I have connections everywhere. Yes sir. We'll stop building out the trade and economy systems and work on the new cinematic technology immediately.
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Lazrin posted:maybe the project has less of a chance of finishing because of his involvement... but he's the only one who started making a star citizen, so i gave him money. You did fine, friend.  This is how things work. People want a thing and they'll pay for it. My opinion is that funding should have stopped to help the people making it realize if they want more money, they need to finish the thing. Getting more money is sort of the "trained dog" reward. Most people work because they want money; even if they love their job, I don't think think people would do it for free day in and day out. SC has this "perpetual funding" mechanism that has basically invalidated the reward at the end of the tunnel. It's a good project for a group to work on; very challenging! But because of the circumstances surrounding it, and all the moral dark sides happening, it's unlikely it will succeed. I too hope it does because the concept of SC sounds cool; I'd try to play it.
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ZenMaster posted:Star Citizen will fail because Crobberts was cruising the space sim highway and saw an offramp called fidelity street that led him to a forest with hundreds of roads. Instead of turning around, he points triumphantly ahead at each fork and yells THIS WAY PEOPLE! and mashes the gas petal. He's running on fumes, the snacks are gone, and the highway has long since vanished over multiple horizons. Also his passengers have been seriously busting for a piss since they went past 'reality' but Crobblers can't hear their cries of "Oh my god, why won't he just stop!". Their back teeth are floating, that's how bad this stuff is.
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The Titanic posted:Hologram Stuff You know, Croberto might actually be onto something here. Holograms are an answer to many of his problems. Can't get your animated commandos to sit at the lunch table without clipping through the table and each other? It's okay, they are holograms! Commandos clipping through the floor of their chariots? Turns out it was a hologram chariot, placed by another devious player. An example of stealth emergent gameplay! Port Olisar rings twisting themselves around at thousands of miles per hour before flying off into the (flat) sun? Not a bug at all, that just means that you as a very clever commando have figured out you are in the *Hologram* universe! Very emergent gameplay right there commando! Worried about real life fiscal responsibilities? Don't worry commando, open your wallet, because those are just holograms!
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IncredibleIgloo posted:You know, Croberto might actually be onto something here. Holograms are an answer to many of his problems.
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Quavers posted:So you're saying that alpha v1.0 was for testing and you're gonna layer on the fidelity for v2.0? quote:"So ahh what we're building towards, ahh -- so right now maybe if you're limited to say 9 psychographic profiles, right? But with the nested design approach of PacChart Engine 2.0, you could potentially have maybe 40, 50 sub-profiles nested within those 9, working out to, what's that like 450 psychographic profiles all working together inside the model. 50 variants of Troll, or ahh 50 variants of Shill, and all basically working together inside the model at once. To scale.
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Xaerael posted:OK, come watch me gently caress about in the snow and try not to get eaten within the first 10 mins. Sorry man, that game sucks. Not a good stream game.
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So their ships move at either 350mph or 0.2C right? How the gently caress does that work in a 1:10 scale solar system that has orbiting planets? You'd have to quantum leap everywhere which basically turns travelling into clicking on a target and then twiddling your thumbs until you arrive many minutes later. If you take off and leave orbit does the planet shoot away in the blink of an eye leaving you to quantum leap back to it again if you decide you want to go back? Is this how they do their seamless landings? You must quantum to 'orbit' which is really just loading the planet map? If you want to travel across a solar system from one side to another to reach a different planet will you end up in empty space as the planet is no longer where is was after 30 minutes of quantum jerking? If the planet rotates, how fast can you travel in orbit? If it's just 350mph, good luck reaching anything without having to quantum up, around and back down.
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Bofast posted:Star Citizen feels as though a contractor was hired to build a small and perfectly reasonable addition to the existing kitchen in your house for X amount of money, then they asked some random guy walking past on the street if they could expand the project. ahhh, the perfect goon project.
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Truga posted:ahhh, the perfect goon project. 
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Star Citizen is the death blow to the myth of the rock star developer. It shows how modern game design has truly moved on from the era of Chris Roberts and John Romero, and how modern development is about collaboration and coordination. Thanks to Chris whatever they poo poo out before calling it done and running away will be just as buggy and terrible as everything they've released. As long as we keep our monkey brains we will continue to think like monkeys and the rock-star developer mindset will live on. Sure, companies and publishers will not fall for it -just like they didn't fall for SC- but regular people will, so as long as they can be monetized future Chris Romero is set.
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Phi230 posted:We're now 2/3 the way through 2017 sc out yet It's coming! 2 more weeks...or two more weeks from THAT time...or another 2 weeks... "Star Citizen: The Amazing Perpetual 2 Week Release Delay Machine"
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Percelus posted:it's pretty amazing they're so incompetent they can't even get a character creator running or just simply add female character models Imagine being the guys in charge of developing a female character. You work your rear end off, pour your soul into it, acreate a perfectly fine character and then whooops! CR saw it! Her hips don't animate the right way, they have to have some "bounce", her earlobes don't have the proper physics, and her breathing animation is all wrong. So you fix all those things and hen whooops! CR had been busy dreaming so now you also have to make animations for her vacuuming the floor, playing basketball, and doing ballet. So you get to it and... gently caress! CR saw it! Is that the Cecchetti method? You uncultured swine! He wanted Vaganova! start over! Also, why the gently caress do her hips bounce?
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XK posted:Sorry man, that game sucks. Not a good stream game. Sorry, being ill probably didn't help with making it interesting. In retrospect, it's quite a slow burn game, so you're probably right it being not great for streaming.
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trucutru posted:As long as we keep our monkey brains we will continue to think like monkeys and the rock-star developer mindset will live on. Sure, companies and publishers will not fall for it -just like they didn't fall for SC- but regular people will, so as long as they can be monetized future Chris Romero is set. Who is the modern day game developer rock star? I can't think of anyone who I would consider checking out a game based on their name alone.
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Laserpig posted:The office was actually cool as poo poo, I noticed a guy duel-screening 34" ultra-wide curved monitors - sitting on what looked like a La-Z-Boy recliner with speakers (no joke). Sounds a lot like my interview (not at CIG). I moved from an older company to a newer startup and the cultural difference is shocking. I wonder what it's like to do IT in the CIG offices. I'm curious what their inventory management and (user) directory choices are. One of the best aspects of joining a successful start-up is you get to implement the infrastructure from the ground-up. With experience you can prep things to make life so much easier for future IT team-mates.
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Quavers posted:https://www.twitch.tv/relay_sc is live soon https://www.twitch.tv/videos/164676343?t=32m33s 
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AbysmalPeptoBismol posted:It's coming! 2 more weeks...or two more weeks from THAT time...or another 2 weeks... They even had to Archer that off Dr Smart.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Who is the modern day game developer rock star? I can't think of anyone who I would consider checking out a game based on their name alone. Yeah, it's a relic.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:
The field is too wide and varied for there to be only one that outshines everybody else. So there are groups that idolize famous guys like Kojima and groups that like more obscure guys like Miyazaki, the dark souls dude (and anti-CR incarnate, as far as directing his staff goes). You would seriously not check a game made by Hideo Kojima? But yeah, it's kind of a relic overall. (But those guys could scam millions out of people, if they so wished). trucutru fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Aug 5, 2017 |
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Who is the modern day game developer rock star? Is there really any question? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V117Ycxb6a0
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Who is the modern day game developer rock star? I can't think of anyone who I would consider checking out a game based on their name alone. ironically, Rockstar imo 
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Who is the modern day game developer rock star? I can't think of anyone who I would consider checking out a game based on their name alone. I think as games are now far too complex to be the responsibility of just one person the reputation thing has shifted from the individual to the company. Rockstar. CD Projekt Red, Bethesda they all have their share of brand worship.
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I'd still buy a game if John Carmack put his name to it, the rest of those lot - Moleniuex, Garriot, Roberts, Romero etc are like Kryptonite to me, if I see their names on something it will make me not buy it.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Who is the modern day game developer rock star? I can't think of anyone who I would consider checking out a game based on their name alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Druckmann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Taro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goichi_Suda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Kojima Asema fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Aug 5, 2017 |
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Asema posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Druckmann Suda51 and Taro are more like indie band leaders.
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There's a few. So far CliffyB is the biggest name I don't see mentioned yet. And the weirdo Japanese guy who wears a big mask? Sid Meier's name continue to show up as a selling point in game titles so he might count. There's a lot more designers the next tier down known but not marketed on the back of their name. Miyamoto e.g. is not seen as a rockstar. I'll personally look for games with Warren Spector or Harvey Smith on them. There's Will Wright, though he's faded lately. In the indie world, there are more personalities. Christine Love, Phil Fish, Jonathan Blow.
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trucutru posted:Suda51 and Taro are more like indie band leaders. I still love them equally doingitwrong posted:And the weirdo Japanese guy who wears a big mask? This is Yoko Taro 
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Who is the modern day game developer rock star? I can't think of anyone who I would consider checking out a game based on their name alone. Chris Metzen, though he's retired now. He was straight up described as such by his co-workers. There was also the part about him being, you know, a literal rock star.
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Asema posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Druckmann Forgot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Smart
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C-Bangin' it 