i have an infection in my butt, a game design infection

Legba

@Edcrab See above.

e: Wost TotP ever.

Edcrab

Legba wrote:

BTW, I just signed up to be a supporter for $30, so it's perfectly possible for Europeans to fund a Kickstarter.

Oh, I know, sorry didn't mean to confuse matters

I meant that Europeans can't make a Kickstarter page of their own

Legba

Ooooooooooooh.

neville

Edcrab wrote:

Legba wrote:

BTW, I just signed up to be a supporter for $30, so it's perfectly possible for Europeans to fund a Kickstarter.

Oh, I know, sorry didn't mean to confuse matters

I meant that Europeans can't make a Kickstarter page of their own

Stop trying to take our money.
Get a job, (euro)hippies!

Edcrab

Big teasing Americans saying things like "oh you should totally make a Kickstarter for X!"

Well I can't! I know when I'm being mocked

neville

Gonna make a kickstarter to mail letters from around the globe mocking @Edcrab for not being able to make his own kickstarter.
Sign up and donate!

Legba

I was going to sign up for all the tea in China @neville, but I couldn't see what the reward for that level of donation was.

Edcrab

Neville I don't understand why you'd be so cruel to me! Why! Whyyyy

Keith

Legba wrote:

Ooooooooooooh.

Legba

Keith wrote: »

Legba wrote:

:winky::winky::winky::winky::winky::winky::winky::winky::winky::winky::winky::winky: h.

Keith

Hahaha

Oh, Legba

neville

Edcrab wrote:

Neville I don't understand why you'd be so cruel to me! Why! Whyyyy

I wouldn't really.
You are a delight. <3

Kochikens

$955k! Guys, I'll make you a deal. If we hit $980k I'll add RTS elements to the game! And if we hit $1M, I'll take them back out!

Sara Lynn

Over 1 million ahhhhhh that is so cool. I am so stoked for them.

Veretas

a million dollars in a day

god damn

neville

Veretas wrote:

a million dollars in a day

god damn

ur face is ... a...
eh

Veretas

Cilla Black

Kochikens wrote:

$955k! Guys, I'll make you a deal. If we hit $980k I'll add RTS elements to the game! And if we hit $1M, I'll take them back out!

Ahahaha

is this a Tim Shafer quote?

love that man so much

Orikaeshigitae

Veretas wrote:

a million dollars in a day

god damn

tim schafer's ak is rusting

Atheraal

halfway to another half mil a couple hours later

this is a seriously amazing Good Thing

i bet the whole team was just there refreshing the kick page, getting proceedingly more happy, then amazed, then drunk

Rolo

http://www.awesome-robo.com/2012/02/farewell-adam-adamowicz-visual-mind.html

Earlier today we learned that Adam Adamowicz, one of the main concept artists behind Fallout 3, Skyrim and other Bethesda titles, passed away today. It was silently announced, but I'd like to shine some light on Adam because he was an anomaly in the game industry, a veritable one-man conceptual machine, who unlike his contemporary counterparts, did a majority of his work in non digital mediums. Fallout 3 was pretty much visually designed from the ground up by one humble man who got little to no recognition, nor sought it.

check out the gallery

dude did some great work

Orikaeshigitae

Pharezon

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

Hahahahahahahahaha

Orikaeshigitae

had a meeting with the director of game design at a local private school

i asked 'what sort of questions should i be asking?' at the end

and he basically said 'where you want to work'

and then i was like 8-)

Edcrab

Hi5, Orikae!

Also who the hell is Jaffe

Orikaeshigitae

designer: twisted metal series

BahamutZERO

damn nice orikae!

Houk

Orikaeshigitae wrote:

designer: twisted metal series

also, God of War 1/2

which makes it doubly weird to me that he would say something like that

not that the GoW stories are amazing or anything, but there is very obviously a focus on story there

Edcrab

Anyone who says that games/action movies/whatever have to be mindless fun with little or no themes or narrative considerations

Is a little bit dumb

Darlan

I wonder what he has to say about that part in God of War 1 where you sacrifice the soldier.

"Pushing that cage would have been just as interesting if it was empty, no one cares about character development"?

Peter Ebel

In the European version it was an undead guy.

Garthor

He's probably saying that if a game is designed to serve a story, then that game will end up worse than a game whose story was designed around the gameplay. So, for the cage-pushing example, the game being designed around the story would end up in a situation where that thing ends up in a tacked-on cutscene, because the story element was created outside the scope of the game and so there is no concept of pushing objects (whether or not those objects contain duders). A story designed around the gameplay, however, would say, "How can we make pushing this box really compelling?"

CyberJackal

Yeah, that's what how I read it too. Except forget even designing the story around the gameplay... If there's no story at all, then the gameplay has to stand on its own.

Saying it's a bad idea and a waste of resources is kind of silly though. If the company is making a profit on their efforts, it's hardly a bad idea.

Legba

So Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert put up a thing in relation to Double Fine Adventure where they talk about adventure games for half an hour. It's interesting.

Orikaeshigitae

i'm writing a piece about horror

it will probably end up being 20-30k words

Edcrab

Are you going to break it into three or four pieces as a series or are you just going to go BAM

THIS IS A REALLY BIG ARTICLE, AND YOU MUST READ IT

Orikaeshigitae

i think i'm going to publish a truncated version as a paginated post and then do an expanded ebook

Orikaeshigitae

this is what happens when you have a writer who teaches himself game design

Edcrab

Well I'll read all those versions, in that case

Orikaeshigitae

am i seriously the only game designer on this forum, no way

no way in hell