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MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE

Max McGee
with sorrow down past the fence
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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"
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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[Character Portrait] Anime Artist for Hire!

As a person that employs a lot of freelance artists for my company, it is my opinion that you are charging too much relative to your ability level. We frequently get art in a variety of styles that is technically better for less monetary outlay.

However, if you are getting that rate and making a living (or at least grocery money) on it for those drawings, then clearly the free market disagrees with me, and more power to you.

Does Anyone Know Stuff about Guns (or Baseball Bats)?

I'd put the 1911 ahead of the P226 and the USP, just because I think it's cooler.

The 1911a1 and the (.45) USP are definitely more powerful than the P226, because they fire .45 ACP which is a more powerful round than .40 S&W. Of course, they have a smaller magazine capacity correspondingly, but I'm not sure if that's a relevant concept in your game (it would be a bitch to code, although I actually crudely evented it for Eldritch in rm2k3...which was ten years ago now. Dear God I'm old.)

Hey guys, RMN has a Twitter too!

If you don't have a Twitter and you're developing a game, I highly recommend you getting one. Twitter, like I mentioned above, is one of the hottest means of social media outreach to game developers, and even your gamepages can get in on the action.


how I wish this could not be true

Does Anyone Know Stuff about Guns (or Baseball Bats)?

That is...exactly how I would have done it. If I was not so lazy/if I had not given up on game design in despair. Glad it works in any rate!

Anyway if you still want gun suggestions like 18 days later...

Glock 22 - Common popular handgun in .40 S&W, highly reliable but without much form/factor appeal.
Colt M1911a1 - The coolest handgun in the world, bar none. It hit in 1911, and special forces operators still use variants of it as their sidearm of choice. Famously used by everyone from the American GI during WWII to Humphrey Bogart. A million clones and variants exist by a million companies. If you saw a handgun in a movie or a videogame and it wasn't a DEAGLE, there's about a 50% chance it was a 1911. My personal favorite gun. Plenty of famous videogame guns are 1911 variants: Agent 47's "Silverballers" from Hitman are 1911 clones (AMT hardballer), Snake's "Operator" from MGS III and MGS IV is a customized 1911, and "Maria" from Fallout: New Vegas is a 1911 clone apparently chambered in 9mm (not unheard of).
H&K USP: A tactical pistol with a high-tech look for elite military and police types, it comes chambered in 9mm, .40 S&W and .45 ACP.
P226: A handgun made by SIG Sauer, and the official sidearm of the FBI.

People that continue to work on projects that probably are a lost cause.

it's way less of a lost cause if you work on it than if you don't, that's all I know

Anime for someone who doesn't really 'like' anime.

author=Jude
For samurai stuff, I liked some weird one called Shigurui. It had very minimalist animation which was off-putting at first, but I stuck with it long enough to get hooked. It's a fairly serious drama with a lot of violence. It was on Netflix for awhile, but I think Funimation might stream it.


I watched "all" of this, it was really good but where the fuck is the ending?

RPG Maker's getting a booth at PAX East

Neat. I think this is the last year my company has been unable to afford to represent at the various PAXes, so I'll check this out at some time in the future.

As An Adult, Do You Find Yourself Playing More Video Games At This Age Or Less?

I just turned (OH MY FUCKING GOD NO!) 30. Actually, even more terrifying than that is it isn't even "just" anymore. It's been a month. I don't know which is scarier, the speed at which the last month flew by or the ten years before then.

Anyway, looking at the last 10 years in retrospect (so late college and then like 8 years of post-college underemployment), I'd say that with some mild fluctuations, I have played a fairly constant amount of videogames: an average 10-30 hours a week of vidya, with occasional spikes, binges, and droughts. Sometimes I will go a month or three without playing any (console) videogames: I almost don't count my super-lo-fi coffeebreak roguelikes, for whatever reason. Then something like Fallout 4 comes out and I fall in a Fallout hole or whatever.

In a sense, I think I'm lucky to be able to play as much videogames as I do: lucky to be self employed that I don't have to work a 40 hour work week with someone else as my boss, even if I'm unlucky that I literally could not do that if I wanted to, due to my illness.

Sometimes during my one to three month periods of "I don't feel like playing videogames" I think..."what if I just lose interest in videogames" and to be honest, it kind of terrifies me. It would be like losing a major part of myself. I mean, not as defining a part of myself as if I lost interest in the other kind of RPGs, but still, a major part.

Also: echo what people have said about replaying the same old favorites over and over again.

Sickening Article about Game Development and the "Wage Slave" Attitude

not sure if OP was quote-mining or not, but going just by the quotes...wow that guy being quoted is a fucking a-hole of the highest order.

even people with "fun" jobs deserve to earn a living wage, and fucking nothing is fun if you are forced to do it 80 goddamn hours a week. my fav thing right now is playing Dark Souls III and if I had to do that 80 hours a week I'd probably blow my brains out

Baldur's Gate Siege of Dragonspear Controversy

So basically they outsourced the writing to Tumblr? What an awesome and inspired decision.

I should really check out this Baldur's Gate thing one of these days, anyway.