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| I introduce INC to my arch nemesis Greg Costikyan by Fussbett 12/15/2005, 11:35am PST | ||||
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INC: "(The companies do not release subscriber figures, but many gaming experts believe that before the changes, Star Wars Galaxies had about 200,000 subscribers, each paying about $15 a month.)" INC: Gaming experts. Who did they ask, Fabio? INC: I'm guessing they called one guy INC: "I'm gonna say... 200,000?" "Can anyone corroborate that?" "Sure, hold on. Hey, Phil, does 200,000 sound about right for Galaxies?... Yeah, Phil agrees." Sanitario666: Gaming experts like my arch nemesis Greg Costikyan. INC: who? Now, it's not shocking for INC to be confused about things I'm saying. Nor is it shocking for someone who actually makes video games to be unaware of Greg Costikyan. But I was insulted that INC hadn't read my Snood rant. Sanitario666: He made dice RPGs and then he started to pontificate on video games INC: oh INC: yeah, fuck that guy Sanitario666: www.costik.com (INC is always ready to hate whoever you're down on) INC: haha - he's not just making games, he's building a whole new gaming INDUSTRY. INC: and who will be DM of that industry? Him. INC: I really can't take this guy INC: he's my arch-nemesis now, too Sanitario666: Yes, he's the fucking worst. INC: combination of idiocy and self-importance INC: did we learn nothing from Paul Steed? Sanitario666: Or GOD Games? Or CEG? Sanitario666: www.manifestogames.com INC: I'd like Steed to go talk to this guy about how he hasn't had a job in years INC: of course, that would be affirmation to Greg Sanitario666: Yes that would be a big article about how art triumphs avuncular indulgence. Or whatever. INC: Yeah, of course a true artist is unemployed. INC: The industry has no use for them! Since my Snood rant, Greg has gone on to help pen the Scratchware Manifesto under the pseudonym "Designer X". In summary the manifesto says that we should return to games being made by 2 people because 1985's Balance of Power was really good and so was NetHack. INC: "Jessica Mulligan wrote that the Scratchware Manifesto was "naive in the extreme," and obviously written by an industry outsider - and was quite surprised to learn that I was Designer X." INC: So she was right Sanitario666: Yeah, she's perceptive. Like, she can read and think. INC: I like that he came up with a cool nickname for himself when he wrote the manifesto, but then realized it would be hard to brag about it that way INC: "OKay, everyone, I know you're dying to know - I was Designer X!!!" Sanitario666: "You're a designer?" Sanitario666: "YES!!!!!! Remember Alpha Moons 6?" Sanitario666: "No." INC: yeah, I was working on a joke like "What did you design?" "The manifesto!" INC: but then I got distracted by reading further in the article. Sanitario666: "Richard Garriott, the virtual inventor of the computer RPG, cast aside like a used condom by a machine that thinks it's sucked what useful value it can find in him. " Sanitario666: Cast aside like a condom. By a machine. A machine that sucks the value (out of condoms) INC: wow, that's a lot of metaphors Sanitario666: The machine runs on semen! Sanitario666: It's a good thing the author is hidden behind the pseudonym "X". Because the writing is an embarrassment. INC: "Oh, by the way... Go buy yourself a copy of Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich. If you can find it. Nice game. Too bad about the marketing." INC: yeah, good luck finding it Sanitario666: Those pinheads in marketing. INC: when will they stop working AGAINST devels? Sanitario666: Manifesto Games will have no marketing. It will be up to the player to find the game. INC: "Why is it that sales are up? The answer is very simple: Demography." INC: I guess he meant "demographics" INC: "So the growth in game sales is driven by two factors: The growing portion of the population that was exposed to games when young - and, of course, the growth of the population. But what we're talking about, when you get down to it, is growth on the order of 7-10% annually. Compare that to Moore's Law: 100% growth in processing power over 18 months." INC: PSH INC: You can say games sales growth is good, but have you seen how quickly CPU power increases? Or how about the speed of light? Talk to me when your growth approaches that. |
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Hello! My name is Greg Costikyan, and I'm here to talk about what's wrong with the video game industry! First off, the industry won't allow me to make video boardgames. Can you believe it? The designer of MadMaze unemployable? MadMaze was a huge hit on the Prodigy system!
I introduce INC to my arch nemesis Greg Costikyan by 12/15/2005, 11:35am PST  That picture is you? NT by 12/15/2005, 12:54pm PST You're fired. NT by 12/15/2005, 1:05pm PST Chet finds good Costikyan interview by 12/31/2005, 10:21am PST |
