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by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/17/2013, 12:11am PDT |
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fucking newbie wrote:
Anyway, tell me what you think the missing ingredient is in terms of the shit these people learn if you can think of something that doesn't boil down to 'samples of a quality work.'
Game design:
Have some fucking idea of what came before and what did and didn't work for the genre you are in. Every single game designer in the world should be able to speak to the specific case of why X-COM was a masterpiece and why Terror From the Deep sucked dick. Every single one - regardless if you are making iOS slop or console games or a game that is actually called XCOM.
Play every meaningful PC game from 1980 to 1996. The limitations in computing power and storage meant that creativity, design and an innate sense of fun had to grab a player's attention. A lot of developers and designers seem to think that having played every SNES game is the same thing. It is absolutely not, and the reason is because the NES, SNES and Genesis were all designed to try to make Donkey Kong Country. You can count the interesting games on those consoles that weren't sports or side-scrollers on one hand. The PC is the only platform that matters.
Game writing:
Unlike design, don't experience what everyone else is experiencing. Don't rent The Matrix. Don't bother with any fantasy. There are 100 people who think they have an awesome D&D campaign in their heads that is really different! Do not be one of them. Get as much interesting life experience as possible and listen to everyone you encounter. Keep company around assholes. Make friends out of people whose only quality is that they are reprehensible. Lose. Why are all social justice games incomprehensible and laughable? Because they are made in a pointless, vapid echo chamber. Nobody under the age of 50 ought to be writing for games. Nobody under the age of 25 has a single interesting thing to say in their lives just in speaking, much less writing.
or just make more games with realistic guns and be part of the wave of sour-faced children that thinks they will be the first to rip off The Red Wedding in a video game, you fat fucks, I don't give a shit
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What does a game designer need to know to create good mechanics? Good story? by fucking newbie 09/14/2013, 6:08pm PDT 
I am hijacking this thread to talk about how much I hate Extra Credits by WITTGENSTEIN 09/14/2013, 6:25pm PDT
The Extra Credits writer was an evercrack addict and cried about it on the show by fucking newbie 09/14/2013, 8:16pm PDT
"Is this fun?" by fabio 09/15/2013, 3:58am PDT
I think it depends on the type of gaming you're making, "Fun" is a good start... by Worm 09/15/2013, 11:33am PDT
They should ask themselves: by Fullofkittens 09/15/2013, 2:38pm PDT
Ten pages of this in the New Yorker. Well, let's see how it goes. NT by fucking newbie 09/15/2013, 8:16pm PDT
Re: What does a game designer need to know to create good mechanics? Good story? by Entropy Stew 09/15/2013, 4:22pm PDT
I'D BUY THAT FOR FIVE DOLLARS! (adjusted for inflation) NT by That guy from Robocop 09/15/2013, 8:25pm PDT
We'd call it PI the movie NT by Directed by Arraanoofsssky 09/18/2013, 1:23am PDT
Too much inbred creativity by Lurker 13243 09/16/2013, 4:02am PDT
This is all 100% correct by fabio 09/16/2013, 3:53pm PDT
I have a lot of hope for these "millennials" by Fullofkittens 09/16/2013, 5:03pm PDT
I thought Gen Y was Millennials? by WITTGENSTEIN 09/16/2013, 5:41pm PDT
don't think there's a name for the new kids yet by jeep 09/16/2013, 8:50pm PDT
Generation Z or millenials both apply, but here's the real name: by fucking newbie 09/20/2013, 1:06pm PDT
Or you're only seeing the top percentage that manage to get work NT by fabio 09/16/2013, 10:56pm PDT
True. NT by FoK 09/17/2013, 3:55am PDT
If the movie rule is "Show, don't tell," the VG rule is "Do, don't show." by Mischief Maker 09/16/2013, 5:45pm PDT
If the movie rule is "Show, don't tell," the VG rule is "Do, don't show." NT by <- not bad ( jeep ) 09/16/2013, 8:52pm PDT
Without friction, there can be no pleasure. by Jerry Whorebach 09/16/2013, 10:20pm PDT
Re: What does a game designer need to know to create good mechanics? Good story? by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/17/2013, 12:11am PDT
I agree with Jonsey. by Jerry Whorebach 09/17/2013, 1:30am PDT
Whoa! by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/17/2013, 10:18pm PDT
I'm pretty sure they're still pathetic and mewling children. by Jerry Whorebach 09/19/2013, 1:32am PDT
You should try playing OFF. NT by http://offgame.wikia.com/wiki/Downl 11/03/2013, 3:13am PST
also good NT by jeep 09/17/2013, 10:00am PDT
Re: What does a game designer need to know... by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/17/2013, 11:07am PDT
I'd love to see a Gamasutra postmortem of Patty Flinger NT by Entropy Stew 09/17/2013, 1:52pm PDT
your ator sucks bro give up by go fuck YOURself, too 09/17/2013, 4:57pm PDT
No, it's true by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/17/2013, 5:31pm PDT
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