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Why I no longer support GM, and retracted my "backing" on Kickstarter.
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I wanted to cue in and state I know Jason personally, and I am working with him as a 3D artist. I have never got a vibe of him being an asshole, or whatever you wish to state and yes he is in fact very pleasant and friendly. What he can be is very direct and outspoken and has a no nonsense attitude. Some people may interpret that differently or negatively than what it actually is. I believe not many people are used to that.
Now being new to the industry yes he has stuff to learn I am sure, but don't we all when we start learning a field, new career etc. Being new to the industry, the first step is to have a love and major passion for what you are doing and should not be a limiting factor on his credibility regardless of what you feel in his experience. Indie in itself is for people who are just starting and want to start something great or take that next step themselves or get tired of the same recycled slop in a different wrapper, but they do not have the ability like the Titans such as EA, blizzard, Activision to pull in millions on a whim and their name alone.
I myself being an avid gamer for nearly 30 years (since atari 2600)I think of ways of how I can improve a game, or take it apart and make improvements e.g. mods, visuals etc. I started in 2003/4 making mods, e.g. project reality, BHD Mod for BF2, Unreal Tournament maps, dark basic games, modding SWAT4, the list goes on. Few years later around 2008 I managed to get employment in the game development industry as a 3D artist in contract/freelance role and I have learned alot along the way, yet I still have much to learn and expand on my skill set. I will continue to adapt and learn. Most of all....i love what I do which makes it easy to get up and work my butt off for something I love and working along side like minded individuals to an end goal together.
Now, to answer concerns on Jason "purchasing" assets, pre-made products, it is simple. For an indie team, it comes down to money, most do not have a lot of it or do not start off with a lot, so simply put got to make a lot with a little. So as a team you got to think what can you implement within a limited budget and how can you implement your features quickly and effectively for testing, as well as presentation for potential investors, etc. But mainly it is a smart approach in that it shortens to the curve to a implemented test bed for the game you are developing. When you develop a game you want to be able to set up the basic core features and work up and out from there adding stuff as you go, along with a structured and planned GDD and art/programming pipeline it is very smart and very fast to a viable functional early alpha.
It is easier to have specific assets purchased if available.e.g. characters, particle fx, creatures, weapons, animations for testing your features, code rather than looking at basic cubes, and primitives and simple blocky terrain. This allows you as the Development team to see quickly what works and what doesn't and adjust from there. I think the project has promise. Does it have obstacles to face? Yes, will it take a while to finish? yes. But the journey not so much the destination is the fun part in success.
I see a lot of people wanting to new ideas, fresh innovation, original implementation of games they would love to do, or merely play. This is one of several promising projects rom indie companies, that will ;with luck, perserverance and old fashioned hard work be played and people will have fun.
When you talk down to someone and their experience and credibility; Remember,the greatest in Game development all came from humble simple begininngs. Most of all they bust their ass to get there, and learned along the way. Same applies here.
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I don't really even care if GM makes it or don't. If someone will at least make an effort at trying to create a decent crafting-based sandbox game they can have my 25 bucks (which is the amount I pledged to GM) and go ahead.
The MMO genre needs anyone who are willing to go out and try new things. If I see any more "wow-killer", triple-A, Disney-sized IP, multi-billion themepark bullshit games coming out I'm going to puke.
well put. everyone screams the need and desire for something that is new,innovative, original, want sandbox and now someone is making it and yet complain When that someone is new to the industry attempts to provide just that. Give him time see where it goes and if he can provide just that.
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Hey Jason, unfortunately I missed the Ks campaign, but nevertheless, interesting game and I might jump in at a later point.
Also saw the video interview and I think you are the type of person who can pull this off.
Management talent is the key and you know that.
A lot of losers who have no clue get angry if others work on their dreams and are not just frustrated big mouthed trolls who never accomplished anything on their own.
http://dontru.in/troll
Seriously guys, know your words.
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John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
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Terrible example. Learn2history
Keep in mind that also took them 4 years to make a minimally functional prototype, 6 years to make one of "practical utility", and 9 years to make one that they were comfortable exhibiting publicly. I'm not saying it can't be done, but the Wright brothers weren't selling them two months from starting develoment
So I joined the skype chat of the developers of greed monger for a day, and this is my impression.
http://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/69845-greed-monger/page__st__120#entry697337
Posted on the wurms online board so he has no ability to censor it like he has everything else. Also please read his posts earlier on that forum, he does quite afew really outlandish, egotistical and menaical things. He has threatened to sue both Wurms Online forum and a random member on there. It is quite sad we gave him the money to envoke fear on someone stating there opinion.
Not only that but there are multiple lies and cover ups going on and there all pointed out directly in that forum. As they should be, why were arguing on some random forum? I have no idea ask the mastermind behind this kickstarter scam.
Neither did anyone else at the time.
I fail to see how that case relates to this case.
This is steamrolling toward a drama level sure to rival both Glitchless and Red Dragon Software.
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