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LeftistMuslimObama posted:what if their code opened all their textures in write mode (and they don't keep backups) and then scrambled them up and poo poo? If you're a really, really bad programmer I can think of a few ways you could permanently gently caress a project with coding errors. Especially if you don't use version control or keep backups of assets. Somebody with the level of experience they have makes me really, really skeptical that they're writing anything that's going to be directly editing game assets. There are certainly ways you could have your game break itself, but they're not exactly things idiots have much access to.
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The Grammar Aryan posted:I've dealt with enough lazy/amateur programmers to be able to translate. Absolutely this.
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Zaphod42 posted:The permanent damage is to their brains Actually, like I said, it's more like they didn't have anything in the first place because they found out it would actually take effort. They ARE fresh out of viddy game school after all.
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Feb 18, 2015 18:49
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:what if their code opened all their textures in write mode (and they don't keep backups) and then scrambled them up and poo poo? If you're a really, really bad programmer I can think of a few ways you could permanently gently caress a project with coding errors. Especially if you don't use version control or keep backups of assets. Also as noted you'd have to go out of your way to do that terrible idea.
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Feb 19, 2015 02:24
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Zereth posted:They made the original textures once, they can do it again. There's a zillion ways you can gently caress up a project if you're not using source control, you're a lovely programmer, and you're trying to coordinate multiple people. "This code here works okay, but we have a bug with it." <tinkers, code balloons to 10x the size it was before, bug still isn't fixed> "Wow, now this poo poo is real broken." <Can't roll back changes because there's no backup. Guy who wrote the original code that mostly worked is long gone.> Of course this is not a truly unrecoverable situation, but if you're a lovely programmer then it seems like it could be. ErIog has a new favorite as of 02:49 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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Feb 19, 2015 02:30
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They probably broke something so Game Maker won't load their game any more.
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Feb 19, 2015 02:42
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TetsuoTW posted:They probably broke something so Game Maker won't load their game any more. scratched the disk
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:what if their code opened all their textures in write mode (and they don't keep backups) and then scrambled them up and poo poo? If you're a really, really bad programmer I can think of a few ways you could permanently gently caress a project with coding errors. Especially if you don't use version control or keep backups of assets. Reminder that Project Zomboid, one of the major games responsible for Steam's current state Early Access fuckshittery and which is still hugely unfinished 4 years after its initial debut, once lost months of progress because their apartment was burgled and they had zero offsite backups in place.
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Ryoshi posted:The oldass cool space game Starflight actually rewrote it's code in the executable every time you saved the game so it was way easy to gently caress something up and need to completely reinstall. IIRC it rewrote the disks themselves so good luck unfucking it if you weren't playing off a backup.
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Ryoshi posted:why wouldn't you keep backups??? It's okay, they had RAID1.
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ErIog posted:There's a zillion ways you can gently caress up a project if you're not using source control, you're a lovely programmer, and you're trying to coordinate multiple people. Sleeveless posted:Reminder that Project Zomboid, one of the major games responsible for Steam's current state Early Access fuckshittery and which is still hugely unfinished 4 years after its initial debut, once lost months of progress because their apartment was burgled and they had zero offsite backups in place. Zaphod42 posted:Also who the gently caress collects money for a kickstarter to make a game project and then doesn't keep AAAANY backups whatsoever? I mean honestly, that's just wrong. Lack of off-site backups is poo poo and it screwed over project zomboid, but they still had backups period. Not having any form of backup whatsoever would just be juvenile. Criminal negligence. 
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Well that didn't work: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1203202560/the-riderville-radio-sitcom quote:Each half-hour episode of THE RIDERVILLE RADIO SITCOM takes place during a famous game in the Roughriders' history. Stories will centre on a group of fans at each game, being forced to deal with any variety of commotion around them. They only need 19 grand by tomorrow guys. HEY MILLENIALS, HOW DO YOU DO KIDDOS OF FELLOW? WE ARE GOING ON THE SKATEBOARDS LATER JOIN US FOR THE RAD TIME https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/millennials-for-jeb-pac  hell yes ladies i'm pretty cool i know i got a badly illustrator-trace-lined picture of the jebster on a flask, whats up edit:  Literally only 4 donations and it looks very much like 2 of them are "Lucas Agnew" here figuring out how to make anonymous ones. pathetic little tramp has a new favorite as of 18:46 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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pathetic little tramp posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1203202560/the-riderville-radio-sitcom For reference for any non-Canadians reading this thread, they're trying to raise 20 grand to make a period piece radio show based around the fandom of a single specific sports team from the second most popular sport in a country that only cares about one sport.
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Pffhahahahaha! Can't you be enterprising enough to like reneg them so nobody sees, fuckin moron  A guy using the Age of Mythology box-art as the only image This seems really familiar... And I always post at least three, so have this one for fun quote:Hi, I’m Steven and I’ve been a gamer for a while now. This idea was birthed when I was playing a game and had no one to play with. It then occurred to me that there must be easier ways to find gamers who shared the same games as me and have the same availability. Maybe try getting a job; suddenly you'll find you have roughly the same availability as everyone else! edit: HOLY FUCKIN poo poo quote:I will create a game based on your ideas. In addition to my game that I am currently working on. I will not create MMO or FPS games. "Give me money for the privelege of being my ideas guy." I love this guy! Noyemi K has a new favorite as of 19:00 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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quote:Complete 100% Athiest? Love the whole "who's imaginary friend is best" argument thing that people always seem to get into? Never seem to be able to definitively settle the row.... UNTIL NOW! Top Trumps have been settling arguments on everything from race cars to super villains. Now God Trumps is here we can finally find out who's God is best.  Those are words.
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DStecks posted:For reference for any non-Canadians reading this thread, they're trying to raise 20 grand to make a period piece radio show based around the fandom of a single specific sports team from the second most popular sport in a country that only cares about one sport. Even in Saskatchewan we think this poo poo is stupid.
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Boys and girls like Minecraft, sure, but let's make a special one for girls anyway!  quote:Most of you know that Minecraft is a game that boys and girls everywhere are obsessed with it! Even though the game seems to be intended for boys, my little girl loves it! So I got to thinking... What if they had one with unicorns and fairies... If it was pink and purple... It just clicked it would be amazing!! And what is this woman's qualifications? quote:I have been to school for computer programming but I would hire a second party to do all the art creations. Then I would hire a third party to create the actual game with all of the ideas that come up! An ideas person, you guessed it! Also if you play the video pitch, no your web player didn't gently caress up, she literally hid the video so it only recorded audio, then her son/daughter (I can't tell) was forced to read some shittily written statement, even though there's a pic of a daughter on the page anyway. 
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quote:So far, the group pretty much consists of Agnew, who Googled how to set up a super PAC. (“I didn’t realize how easy it was to start one,” he noted.) He used Weebly.com to create a slick Web site that declares: “Jeb is Ready. Are You?” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/02/17/millennials-for-jeb-tries-to-catch-up-with-ready-for-hillary/ Also I see a scandal brewing: quote:The Washington state native, who got his start in politics working as the campaign sign coordinator for a mayoral candidate in high school, hired an artist online (“I think someone in India”) to design a graphic for merchandise.
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KiddieGrinder posted:Boys and girls like Minecraft, sure, but let's make a special one for girls anyway! Just off the top of my head I can think of three mods and a texture pack that will turn minecraft into exactly what this woman wants. All the fun of suffocating gender roles without breaking the bank!
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People made fun of the girly Lego sets and they've sold beyond even LEGO's expectations. Although yeah, texture packs and mods already exist for this.
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Exploding Kittens now has more than twice the number of backers of Reading Rainbow
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KiddieGrinder posted:Boys and girls like Minecraft, sure, but let's make a special one for girls anyway! quote:I have been to school for computer programming but I would hire a second party to do all the art creations. Then I would hire a third party to create the actual game with all of the ideas that come up! If their is any setbacks I will work hard to fix the problem promptly, and continue till the finish! 
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KiddieGrinder posted:Boys and girls like Minecraft, sure, but let's make a special one for girls anyway! TBH, you can build a Minecraft clone in Unity in 30 minutes. It's not that hard to build procedural voxel chunks, which is pretty much what Minecraft is. In fact, people are already complaining about Steam being filled with Minecraft clones because they're so simple to build.
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KiddieGrinder posted:Boys and girls like Minecraft, sure, but let's make a special one for girls anyway! The player character in Minecraft is actually supposed to be gender-neutral, it's just that the graphics are so bad that their smiley face looks like a goatee.
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boom boom boom posted:Exploding Kittens now has more than twice the number of backers of Reading Rainbow That's bad. boom boom boom posted:Exploding Kittens has raised more money that the Ouya That's good!
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theflyingorc posted:That's bad. And the Exploding Kittens kickstarter just finished with roughly 8.8 million dollars in pledges from ~219,000 backers.
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KiddieGrinder posted:An ideas person, you guessed it! Also if you play the video pitch, no your web player didn't gently caress up, she literally hid the video so it only recorded audio, then her son/daughter (I can't tell) was forced to read some shittily written statement, even though there's a pic of a daughter on the page anyway. My favorite is the end *whispers*: "Thank you" Kid: "Thank y" END VIDEO!
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cyberia posted:And the Exploding Kittens kickstarter just finished with roughly 8.8 million dollars in pledges from ~219,000 backers. 
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DStecks posted:For reference for any non-Canadians reading this thread, they're trying to raise 20 grand to make a period piece radio show based around the fandom of a single specific sports team from the second most popular sport in a country that only cares about one sport. Hell, I live in Saskatchewan, and I'll give them credit for trying, but this is a goddamn stupid idea. As a non-football loving person (lub me mah hockey, though) only Winnipeg and Saskatchewan genuinely care about football, and Saskatchewan only cause they can't support an NHL team (I wish they could  ).
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Why is it always that gaming (not necessarily video) related kickstarters are more and more of an atrocity, the more money they bring in? Is this some kind of universal constant that we can apply scientifically?
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I always thought curling was sport #2 in Canada.
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cyberia posted:And the Exploding Kittens kickstarter just finished with roughly 8.8 million dollars in pledges from ~219,000 backers. My god, I need to find something to make a kickstarter about like asap.
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Shadoer posted:My god, I need to find something to make a kickstarter about like asap. may i recommend a microwallet?
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Shadoer posted:My god, I need to find something to make a kickstarter about like asap. Find some game people are nostalgic for, doesn't need to be good. Find someone who worked on it, and say you are making a spiritual sequel with their help.
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Remaking Laser Squad should be a good idea, considering how successful new X-COM is. It's like the Wasteland kickstarter to Fallout 3. Also, I'm sure you can hire some developers who worked on it for a pint of lager. \/\/\/ drat it, again Gollop is one step ahead of me. I guess the next thing to kickstart would be Barmy Burgers. Paladinus has a new favorite as of 12:31 on Feb 20, 2015 |
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^^^ Probably not, seeing as how Julian Gollop already successfully kickstarted a remake of his earlier game Chaos.Cheez posted:Why is it always that gaming (not necessarily video) related kickstarters are more and more of an atrocity, the more money they bring in? Is this some kind of universal constant that we can apply scientifically? No. Only a handful of traditional gaming projects have taken over $1m and most of them are fine. Kingdom Death drags the average up by having miniatures that treat women in ways that would make a Gorean puke, but it's an exception rather than a rule and I also believe it's a long way behind schedule (aka "there's a good chance it's vapourware").
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cyberia posted:And the Exploding Kittens kickstarter just finished with roughly 8.8 million dollars in pledges from ~219,000 backers. Still can't hate it. Dumb teens and goony adults want a dumb card game, are almost certain to GET a dumb card game because gently caress, with 8.8 million it would be almost impossible to fail to create a dumb card game. Unlike ridiculously over-ambitious projects like "completely tear down the home console market" and "build a AAA MMO", there's not a whole lot that can go wrong, and it's not bullshit unbuildable tech like that projection watch, or a scam. Pretty much the worst thing about it is "wow there are a lot of people with a bad sense of humour who like card games", and we knew that anyway. Also, Magic: the Gathering pulls in a quarter of a BILLION dollars a year as a brand. People spend money on card games, this is not news.
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Isn't the exploding kittens kickstarter basically just a "preorder a deck of cards" deal? As in, they already have the deck, they just wanted to measure interest before spending the effort of making their own web shop thing, or printing 100k decks then noticing there's no market?
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