CATMITTS'S PROFILE

Yeah 28 crits is insane dude. It is really cool that you did this. This is a good overview on the entries too!

Incidentally if you're interested in trying to make games then I think RMN has another short contest coming up this month, which is a really good way to make something short and toss ideas around or just get to grips with an engine.

i honestly don't have much of a problem with entertainment for entertainment's sake at all! i am not gonna throw out uh DIE HARD or whatever and i still do play some old snes games despite the fact that they're basically children's toys. but i think it's important to bear in mind just what these things are and to also try to respect genuine quality and originality of vision etc. i don't expect people to give up doing things for fun but i think it's too easy to fall into a rut with this stuff and become like those 40something comics nerds subsisting oin the equivalent of junkfood every day. strive to improve the self....... ~ dwayne johnson "the rock"

I sometimes post screenshots of what I'm working on because I'm a whore but I always feel gross about it and regret it. Hype is gross!! Don't be gross guys!! Like there's seeking out actual criticism or posting games to where people might like them or just trying to make people aware they exist which is all fine but I think there's a distinction between that and uh MARKETING TACTICS. Heh just gonna release a few carefully chosen screenies to "build up a buzz" as they say. Gotta keep up that brand recognition. Gotta keep my game on the first page. It just seems really ugly and sordid to me. I would rather people just didn't play my games than be attracted to them by some demeaning superficial horseshit because anyone who cares about that shit is probably awful anyway and fuck them. I still remember when cactus squid would release his games on G&D and get completely ignored while some awful dork was bumping his final fantasy fangame to six pages long. I know there's a couple of people who would see that and think HEH JUST MORE PROOF MARKETING IS IMPORTANT but given a choice between self-respect and a few more people playing some fucking videogame I like to think I'd choose the former.

I am collaborating with a guy from gamingw right now who's doing the Frog World RPG soundtrack. I'm enjoying it a lot because we are both kind of working autonomously, like he sends me really bizarre UNGAMELIKE experimental stuff and I kind of improvise the game to fit the music and it's going in a really neat direction I would never have thought of by myself. I think this is more fun than trying to bend someone else to your ideas or farming out game sections to people. I think it'd be better in general to think of a collaboration as just that and to maybe base it on what COULD BE NEAT or working with people who seem interesting rather than basing it all on mapping experience etc. Just being less precious about stuff overall. Maybe not but I like the idea.