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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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Police shoots man in the back
Has anyone seen the longer version of the clip where you can clearly see the cop planting his stungun on the guy he murdered? Another cop (a black cop, as it happens) seems to be helping him do it, or at least not interfering at all. Un-fucking-believable.
I guess this answers our question of "how blatantly murdery does a murder have to be before a cop is actually charged with murder" ... THIS blatant.
I guess this answers our question of "how blatantly murdery does a murder have to be before a cop is actually charged with murder" ... THIS blatant.
[Paid/Unpaid] Game Writing Jobs; [Free] Game Writing Course
There's a very important confession I have to make
There's a very important confession I have to make
So, funny story, I read this post on today April 7th, ten minutes after waking up and with my brain nowhere near warmed up to full operating speed.
For about five amazingly confused and distressed minutes I seriously believed every word of it.
Lesson learned: I am functionally retarded before breakfast. Also April Fools pranks work a lot better six days later when you have forgotten that April Fools was even a thing.
For about five amazingly confused and distressed minutes I seriously believed every word of it.
Lesson learned: I am functionally retarded before breakfast. Also April Fools pranks work a lot better six days later when you have forgotten that April Fools was even a thing.
[Done] The Great RMN Migration
The server change is an instance of change so invisible and intangible that even I am comfortable with it.
Thank goodness.
Thank goodness.
[Release Something! Day XIII] Feedback Thread
What are you thinking about? (game development edition)
I seem to have this cycle where I'm maybe 6d4 (6-24) months OFF of RPG Making, then maybe 2d6 (2-12) months on. This makes it real hard to get anything done.
The fact that when I come back from my up-to-two-years hiatus, I will almost certainly want to work on something completely different from whatever unfinished product I abandoned when the RM interest tide was waning might make ever finishing anything close to actually impossible.
I guess I could purely make myself work on RPG Maker, not enjoying one minute of it. But I don't do that for things that don't pay money. And I don't see myself starting. Actually, it's been years since I've even done shit-work for a job. My ability to force myself to spend time on any kind of drudgery without a real and immediate benefit for me is severely atrophied. I manage to exercise sometimes, because I don't want my body to die. And I clean my environment because I like to be tidy. But that's about it.
I seem to be transitioning into an "off" phase now. Haven't worked on RM in a month, showing way more interest in using my free time (which is close to all my time) on other things, etcetera. If I was naive to this cycle, I would think "finally, I have outgrown RPG Maker and am going to do something worthwhile* with my time". But I have seen the pattern before and I know the overwhelming likelihood is that in about like a year or two...
* I have given the better part of 15 years of my life to RPG Maker, so obviously I must actually consider it to be worthwhile, on some level. I am turning 29 soon and I feel unbelievably old. I have been an RPG Maker since I was 13 or 14. On PSX RPG Maker before I found RM2k. I feel inconceivably ancient. But the weird thing is, the older I get, the less ashamed I feel about having given the better portion of my life to making vidyagames in a "toy" engine. Maybe that's because the "toy" engine's collective output just keeps getting more and more impressive and respectable as the years crawl by.
The fact that when I come back from my up-to-two-years hiatus, I will almost certainly want to work on something completely different from whatever unfinished product I abandoned when the RM interest tide was waning might make ever finishing anything close to actually impossible.
I guess I could purely make myself work on RPG Maker, not enjoying one minute of it. But I don't do that for things that don't pay money. And I don't see myself starting. Actually, it's been years since I've even done shit-work for a job. My ability to force myself to spend time on any kind of drudgery without a real and immediate benefit for me is severely atrophied. I manage to exercise sometimes, because I don't want my body to die. And I clean my environment because I like to be tidy. But that's about it.
I seem to be transitioning into an "off" phase now. Haven't worked on RM in a month, showing way more interest in using my free time (which is close to all my time) on other things, etcetera. If I was naive to this cycle, I would think "finally, I have outgrown RPG Maker and am going to do something worthwhile* with my time". But I have seen the pattern before and I know the overwhelming likelihood is that in about like a year or two...
* I have given the better part of 15 years of my life to RPG Maker, so obviously I must actually consider it to be worthwhile, on some level. I am turning 29 soon and I feel unbelievably old. I have been an RPG Maker since I was 13 or 14. On PSX RPG Maker before I found RM2k. I feel inconceivably ancient. But the weird thing is, the older I get, the less ashamed I feel about having given the better portion of my life to making vidyagames in a "toy" engine. Maybe that's because the "toy" engine's collective output just keeps getting more and more impressive and respectable as the years crawl by.
What are you thinking about right now?
author=turkeyDawg
So, I pulled a ~9 inch tapeworm out of my cat's mouth today...
On the positive side of things, my cat now has one less ~9 inch tapeworm inside of him!
But how many are left?
What are you thinking about right now?
I have no idea what that is and I get that it is supposed to be a parody but nonetheless it is 1000% more engaging and arresting than any actual power rangers media ever made. Which is obviously a low, low bar...
"When does this get good?"
I'm actually kind of surprised how heated the discussion got earlier in this thread because I thought RMN was pretty much agreed on a consensus of "the burden of hooking the player in the first 15 minutes is on the game".
I think if you ask ten different people when the same game got good for them, whether it's Mass Effect or Dark Souls or whatever, you'll get a bit of a range of different answers. I think people get "hooked" at different points and by different things, get "bored" at different points by the same games, and have different thresholds for "waiting".
I think a lot of people don't really have time for really playing real (add inverted commas to taste) videogames anymore because of the mundane requirements of real life and when I think about that it generally makes me pretty sad. But it's totally understandable. Real life is a big deal. But it does always make me sad when 30 somethings and 40 somethings come up to my booth at conventions and say "oh yeah, RPGs, I used to play those...they were so much fun...but now I've got a job and kids and I can't anymore". There is something heartbreaking about that.
I am in a fairly unique position that really nothing stops me from spending eight hours a day everyday playing videogames. Before you envy me this, probably understand it is in large part the result of a horrible incurable disease that has made my entire life a shit-show. So its "envy" factor is questionable. Even in my unique position, I am unlikely to actually play videogames for eight hours a day everyday because that is not a great way to feel good about yourself.
And even in my unique position I'm pretty stingy with the amount of time I'm willing to gamble on new games that aren't "proven fun", or for that matter the amount of time I'm willing to invest in playing videogames without having an awesome time, period. Like the story of Xenosaga was pretty good and the gameplay was like "alright" but I just did not have the time or energy to invest in actually trying to beat it. So at the first major lull in the "what-would-happen-next" factor I just kind of wandered away from it. The reason for this stuff is usually that other games already have their hooks in me and their hooks are deep, and barbed. Like, say, Skyrim.
I think if you ask ten different people when the same game got good for them, whether it's Mass Effect or Dark Souls or whatever, you'll get a bit of a range of different answers. I think people get "hooked" at different points and by different things, get "bored" at different points by the same games, and have different thresholds for "waiting".
I think a lot of people don't really have time for really playing real (add inverted commas to taste) videogames anymore because of the mundane requirements of real life and when I think about that it generally makes me pretty sad. But it's totally understandable. Real life is a big deal. But it does always make me sad when 30 somethings and 40 somethings come up to my booth at conventions and say "oh yeah, RPGs, I used to play those...they were so much fun...but now I've got a job and kids and I can't anymore". There is something heartbreaking about that.
I am in a fairly unique position that really nothing stops me from spending eight hours a day everyday playing videogames. Before you envy me this, probably understand it is in large part the result of a horrible incurable disease that has made my entire life a shit-show. So its "envy" factor is questionable. Even in my unique position, I am unlikely to actually play videogames for eight hours a day everyday because that is not a great way to feel good about yourself.
And even in my unique position I'm pretty stingy with the amount of time I'm willing to gamble on new games that aren't "proven fun", or for that matter the amount of time I'm willing to invest in playing videogames without having an awesome time, period. Like the story of Xenosaga was pretty good and the gameplay was like "alright" but I just did not have the time or energy to invest in actually trying to beat it. So at the first major lull in the "what-would-happen-next" factor I just kind of wandered away from it. The reason for this stuff is usually that other games already have their hooks in me and their hooks are deep, and barbed. Like, say, Skyrim.
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