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I CAN'T NOT MAKE GAMES.
I have enough lockerspace to hold an episode of Friends.
"We'll make a toast to absent friends and better days,
To remembering and being remembered as brave
And not as a bunch of whining jerks!
Don't lose your nerve.
Do not go straight
You must testify
(or I'm going to come to your house and punch you in the mouth)
cause CLOWNS MUST STAND."
- TW/IFS, "All The World Is A Stage Dive"
I have enough lockerspace to hold an episode of Friends.
"We'll make a toast to absent friends and better days,
To remembering and being remembered as brave
And not as a bunch of whining jerks!
Don't lose your nerve.
Do not go straight
You must testify
(or I'm going to come to your house and punch you in the mouth)
cause CLOWNS MUST STAND."
- TW/IFS, "All The World Is A Stage Dive"
Iron Gaia
As the only human awake on board a space station controlled by an insane AI with delusions of deification, you must unravel the mystery of your own identity and discover: "What is the Iron Gaia?"
As the only human awake on board a space station controlled by an insane AI with delusions of deification, you must unravel the mystery of your own identity and discover: "What is the Iron Gaia?"
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Damage Floor in RPGs, Good or Bad?
More on-map gameplay = more good IMHO. That includes damage floors.
I replayed my old game The Tower like a year ago and I was really impressed at how much fun the traps and hazards on the field map added to the game compared to my latter gam mak where the dungeon design was more...eh.
I replayed my old game The Tower like a year ago and I was really impressed at how much fun the traps and hazards on the field map added to the game compared to my latter gam mak where the dungeon design was more...eh.
Money and Motivation
"Discipline, not motivation. = I think this is self explanatory. Motivation is fleeting. It's time to work as a professional and keep trudging on without having to rely on it. "
Yes. True. But...Discipline is really very difficult to maintain when it's ... in the service of something that's relatively ephemeral. Like one's desire that a game exist. Or even one's desire for the recognition of creating a game, or one's ego. All of these things are...they're rather ephemeral. They don't inspire the discipline to finish a task as staunchly as an empty stomach or an empty fridge does. Basically, discipline is hard to maintain when it's not in the service of feeding your family or feeding your bank account or paying your bills. Even knowing that a lot of people are waiting for you to produce a game (maybe a few hundred of them backed your KS, for instance) can certainly "inspire" a huge amount of discipline from a socially responsible individual. I know it keeps me "motivated".
Some people have ironclad discipline but I have honestly always been rather weak willed...and I think my discipline was stronger when I was younger. Maybe. Or maybe when I was younger I was just way more excited about (say) Iron Gaia being a game and that excitement kept me going through the long drudgery of development, and through the desert of feedback and encouragement in the long middle.
Paradoxically, while it's hard for me to think of any video game idea that it wouldn't be fun to work on for a little while, it's even harder for me to think of any video game idea that I could actually take all the way to completion these days.
I guess...another way of saying this is...personally speaking, I have a lot of trouble doing things for a prolonged period of time if they aren't being done for a) fun or b) profit. Sticking to a task that I'm not getting paid for and that I don't like is really, really hard for me...for anyone, I think. That's why I've kind of been riding the fleeting waves of motivation for years as an amateur/hobbyist game developer.
Also weirdly I am in the position where I actually could pay myself to make RPG Maker games and it actually would make a kind of sense. I co-own a company with a substantial operating budget so yes, I do effectively "pay" myself for various things already, pursuant to my actual business. Which is actually making games...just not of the vidya kind.
Yes. True. But...Discipline is really very difficult to maintain when it's ... in the service of something that's relatively ephemeral. Like one's desire that a game exist. Or even one's desire for the recognition of creating a game, or one's ego. All of these things are...they're rather ephemeral. They don't inspire the discipline to finish a task as staunchly as an empty stomach or an empty fridge does. Basically, discipline is hard to maintain when it's not in the service of feeding your family or feeding your bank account or paying your bills. Even knowing that a lot of people are waiting for you to produce a game (maybe a few hundred of them backed your KS, for instance) can certainly "inspire" a huge amount of discipline from a socially responsible individual. I know it keeps me "motivated".
Some people have ironclad discipline but I have honestly always been rather weak willed...and I think my discipline was stronger when I was younger. Maybe. Or maybe when I was younger I was just way more excited about (say) Iron Gaia being a game and that excitement kept me going through the long drudgery of development, and through the desert of feedback and encouragement in the long middle.
Paradoxically, while it's hard for me to think of any video game idea that it wouldn't be fun to work on for a little while, it's even harder for me to think of any video game idea that I could actually take all the way to completion these days.
I guess...another way of saying this is...personally speaking, I have a lot of trouble doing things for a prolonged period of time if they aren't being done for a) fun or b) profit. Sticking to a task that I'm not getting paid for and that I don't like is really, really hard for me...for anyone, I think. That's why I've kind of been riding the fleeting waves of motivation for years as an amateur/hobbyist game developer.
Also weirdly I am in the position where I actually could pay myself to make RPG Maker games and it actually would make a kind of sense. I co-own a company with a substantial operating budget so yes, I do effectively "pay" myself for various things already, pursuant to my actual business. Which is actually making games...just not of the vidya kind.
Money and Motivation
Sometimes it honestly feels a lot like I'm the unreliable jerk flaking out on myself.
So I wonder if I paid my bills if that would be any different...this sentence is making less and less sense isn't it.
So I wonder if I paid my bills if that would be any different...this sentence is making less and less sense isn't it.
I Hate Rich People
Money and Motivation
So, lately (for perhaps my last five years of sporadic on and off gam mak) I've had a higher than average amount of trouble sticking to projects long enough to finish them before losing interest in gam mak generally, coming back later, and starting something else that was "new and exciting" at the time. You know how the cycle goes.
And I've found it downright impossible for the last five years to bring anyone on board to help with one of my projects without that person flaking out or vanishing into the internet and turning into a pumpkin at some crucial point where I really needed their contribution to keep me motivated and on task. Often I get super talented and/or semi-famous people who offer to collab or at least pitch in but then they flake out and/or disappear. And honestly, I've been kind of an on-and-off flaky internet pumpkin myself for blueperiod, the creator of the spectacular LINUS, and I feel pretty ashamed about that.
The last...six...serious projects I launched the development of, I told myself something like "it's reasonable to have this be a freeware game to start, and then to consider monetizing it and taking it commercial once I have a substantial amount of progress done, if I'm impressed with the results I have and it seems to "deserve" commercialization. This seemed like a reasonable position at the time.
So I thought to myself today: I make tabletop games as a business, and in that arena my rate of finishing and releasing products is damn near 100%. Because there are financial stakes and it feels real, like work. Getting bored and losing interest doesn't even feel like an option because products have overhead costs and consumers have preorders through KS and so on, i.e. there is MONEY involved.
So my question is...if I monetize a project as commercial from the getgo will that increase the chances that I will stay on board to finish and release something?
More importantly, if I "put my money where my mouth is", will it make internet dev help (i.e. "hiring a team" or "hiring a partner") a reliable, viable option? Or even with paychecks and commissions on the line, do people still flake out and turn into internet pumpkins regularly in the vidya sector?
Even more importantly, if I declare a priori that the design of "Game Project XYZ" will be a business from the outset, will gam mak still be fun?
It occurs to me that these questions seem of interest to devs in general, so please discuss?
And I've found it downright impossible for the last five years to bring anyone on board to help with one of my projects without that person flaking out or vanishing into the internet and turning into a pumpkin at some crucial point where I really needed their contribution to keep me motivated and on task. Often I get super talented and/or semi-famous people who offer to collab or at least pitch in but then they flake out and/or disappear. And honestly, I've been kind of an on-and-off flaky internet pumpkin myself for blueperiod, the creator of the spectacular LINUS, and I feel pretty ashamed about that.
The last...six...serious projects I launched the development of, I told myself something like "it's reasonable to have this be a freeware game to start, and then to consider monetizing it and taking it commercial once I have a substantial amount of progress done, if I'm impressed with the results I have and it seems to "deserve" commercialization. This seemed like a reasonable position at the time.
So I thought to myself today: I make tabletop games as a business, and in that arena my rate of finishing and releasing products is damn near 100%. Because there are financial stakes and it feels real, like work. Getting bored and losing interest doesn't even feel like an option because products have overhead costs and consumers have preorders through KS and so on, i.e. there is MONEY involved.
So my question is...if I monetize a project as commercial from the getgo will that increase the chances that I will stay on board to finish and release something?
More importantly, if I "put my money where my mouth is", will it make internet dev help (i.e. "hiring a team" or "hiring a partner") a reliable, viable option? Or even with paychecks and commissions on the line, do people still flake out and turn into internet pumpkins regularly in the vidya sector?
Even more importantly, if I declare a priori that the design of "Game Project XYZ" will be a business from the outset, will gam mak still be fun?
It occurs to me that these questions seem of interest to devs in general, so please discuss?
What are you thinking about right now?
author=Satedauthor=Max McGeeI should've said: I got that part from watching my Twitter feed, where most posts were either people complaining or people complaining about people complaining.
Wait, where is the link to the load of people who are offended?
I don't always agree with Obama, but I agreed with pretty much everything Obama said in the interview you linked.
I would love to see whoever is butthurt about Obama using the n-word, so I can laugh at them. (Not sure if Social Justice Brigade or Fox News screaming that "RACISM IS OVER"!)
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author=Liberty
Currently thankful that, while my school was pretty lacking in information, it wasn't this fucked up when it came to sex ed: http://silversatyr.tumblr.com/post/121826326592/the-math-goddess-alexanderrutzou
Damn. That's some crazy shit. I hope none of you guys and gals had to deal with that kind of bullshit in school because it's seriously wrong.
This one is the best:
Judge bans mother from breastfeeding because she got a tattoo.
What are you thinking about right now?
Whats with the M under a profile name in the forums?
Everyone up thread is lying. It stands for "men you have killed".
As you can see, Liberty has killed 14,902 men, while pianotm has only killed 3,669.
As you can see, Liberty has killed 14,902 men, while pianotm has only killed 3,669.
This petition is too damn important to be ignored. (trigger warning)
Actually, people do slip women date rape drugs and film and upload the sexual encounters. You'd think it was a confession of rape, but there was a case a couple years back where three highschool football players did just that to a girl at a party. They were acquitted of the rape because their defense was that she had been drinking and gotten drunk in the first place. Basically, it was a she-had-coming defense and the judge and jury agreed.
Is this Stubenville you're referring to? I'm aware of it and it's immensely fucked up. Immensely, immensely fucked up.
Ok, so...this thread. Got kinda interesting. Some random thoughts. I don't think I personally would sign this petition although I'm not like...attacking its right to exist.
I personally think that "revenge porn" in and of itself should not be illegal if the images were acquired legally and in a consensual fashion. Please understand that this doesn't mean I think that "revenge porn" is 'classy' or even 'ok'. I think it's pretty repulsive, cretinous behavior. But not all forms of being an asshole are or should be criminalized. I think it's a really shitty thing to do but I don't think it needs to be a crime in and of itself.
I think that hacking into someone's phone or otherwise stealing nudes of them already is illegal (right?) but if that law needs some shoring up to be more effective, than I'm not opposed to that.
I think that drugging someone and taking photos or footage of them must already be illegal, but I'm not sure what crime it is. In any case, if it needs to be criminalized more clearly by the legal code? I'm for that.
Obviously, drugging someone and then having sex with their unconscious body is rape, and should be prosecuted as such, whether or not you film it, but if you film it...then you are a dumbass as well as a rapist, and have just filmed evidence of you being a fucking rapist so congratulations.
Now here is the part that some might take umbrage with. I think that the gradual widening of the societal and legal definition of rape over the last several years through the present to include many lesser infractions which clearly are not rape is a huge problem and tremendously dangerous to society as a whole. I think, in fact, that it's a greater problem to society as a whole than "revenge porn" is (although there's no reason we can't fight both problems).
Particularly in academic environments (like on college campuses in the US and in progressive culture as a whole and let me state again for the record that I am a progressive liberal) the definition of rape has functionally been redefined as "any sex, including consensual sex, that a woman at some point comes to regret and chooses to define as rape" and even worse, institutional processes presume the defendant is guilty and proceed accordingly. Due process is completely perverted and/or just plain thrown out the window. And this is messed up.
tl;dr Revenge porn is bad behavior and totally crass but I'm against any further expansion of the legal and/or societal definition of rape to include things that are not actually rape.
Edit:
I shamefully looked into this video evidence shortly before starting this thread*, and what was documented is indeed a form of rape.
So you looked at the video and saw rape and Tyranos looked at the same video and saw not rape. Leaving aside the incredibly thorny issue of whether it is "okay" to look at this video at all (and it pretty clearly isn't considering her express wishes), I have no idea how one would go about finding it. It seems to have been (rightly and successfully) scrubbed from the face of the internet. Which is a good thing.
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