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« Reply #1420 on: March 07, 2012, 07:37:29 PM » |
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Has anyone actually considered putting together a real indie games awards festival? I saw the #allen Awards but I don't think anything came of that. Would be a nice thing though for sure.
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« Reply #1421 on: March 07, 2012, 07:39:38 PM » |
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Where is it? I really don't want to read 90+ pages, unless there's some Icycalm in there.
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« Reply #1422 on: March 07, 2012, 07:39:51 PM » |
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You have to win a prize if your in a movie!
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« Reply #1424 on: March 07, 2012, 07:42:31 PM » |
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Thanks.
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« Reply #1425 on: March 07, 2012, 07:51:48 PM » |
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lol they have an "XBLA Award" now?
Anyway glad to see that (what is increasingly appearing to be) a gimmicky collectathon with "no conflict" won the IGF, truly representing the indiependent spirit here.
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« Reply #1426 on: March 07, 2012, 07:53:05 PM » |
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Thanks Paul, I'll do some practice!
Is this your child Paul?
Is this your game on the table?
Your sister has a brother.
You're late for the bus!
You're going to learn how to talk.
You're my only son.
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« Reply #1427 on: March 07, 2012, 07:54:26 PM » |
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do you collect things in fez? i don't know much about its gameplay
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« Reply #1428 on: March 07, 2012, 07:55:16 PM » |
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Haha, here we go...
Was Phil Fish seriously crying? ... oh boy
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« Reply #1429 on: March 07, 2012, 08:04:37 PM » |
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please tell me everything about phil fish crying. i only know one phil fish crying story, which was a very touching story that involved a benevolent trucker.
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« Reply #1430 on: March 07, 2012, 08:09:37 PM » |
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Slightly offtopic, but the developer's choice awards are like the IGF part 2; lots of indie nominees and Johann Sebastian Joust just won most innovative. Craziness (yes, I consider Bastion more indie than not.)
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« Reply #1431 on: March 07, 2012, 08:19:24 PM » |
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do you collect things in fez? i don't know much about its gameplay Yeah, according to Polytron's "WHAT IS FEZ?" page the main goal of the game is to explore and find treasure in a huge open world. No opposition or anything, and no peril in the platforming. It could still turn out worth playing through if the puzzles are good (puzzling) but my enthusiasm's kinda been decreasing for it over time. Doesn't help that every new trailer just seems to be the camera circling around Gomez in 3D while chiptunes play and Atmosphere™ happens. |
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« Reply #1432 on: March 07, 2012, 08:23:20 PM » |
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hmm, yeah, sounds like it would depend a lot on how good the puzzles are
i don't know how a game can take 5 years and have no enemies or bosses or weapon types or anything. i wonder what's actually taking all that time, besides the art/music resources and level design. maybe it just has a lot of levels
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« Reply #1433 on: March 07, 2012, 08:28:42 PM » |
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because not all games need violence? wat da eff
if I recall correctly it was not a smooth process. by no means do I know the particulars but I remember hearing/reading fish say they had to restart and revise their workflow/approach a couple times.
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« Reply #1434 on: March 07, 2012, 08:29:08 PM » |
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What's taking YOU so long, Paul? I kickstarted your stuff years ago!
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« Reply #1435 on: March 07, 2012, 08:40:18 PM » |
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Man seriously? From that list I would have given it to Frozen Synapse. Maybe the judges are expendable.
Fez is a pretty novel looking platformer with a kind of innovative element but it's not particularly a standout game or anything.
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« Reply #1436 on: March 07, 2012, 08:41:15 PM » |
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Awwwww man, i thought fez was going to be a game that would be replayable.
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« Reply #1437 on: March 07, 2012, 08:43:57 PM » |
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What's taking YOU so long, Paul? I kickstarted your stuff years ago!
main thing is that some of the team left the project due to lack of time, so i wound up having to do most of the work they were going to do; so what was anticipated as a 1 year long project for 5 people basically became a 5 year long project for 1 person also just the sheer amount of stuff in the game -- there's about 1000 areas (by world size, the game is about 20x as big as zelda 3), 50 creature types (each of those behaves differently depending on which of the two game modes the game's currently in -- exploration mode / dream mode), 10 weapon types (same mode variation), 300 pages of dialogue, 3 hours of music, etc. etc. -- i could have cut some of that to release it earlier but i'm a bit of an all or nothing developer it's also not really comparable because fez has an actual paid team and funding (he took out loans / got grants for hundreds of thousands of dollars), so they can afford to work full time on it. the kickstarter boost of $1500 that the game got helped a lot but was still relatively small nonetheless i still work on it every day, haven't missed a day since june 2009 |
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« Reply #1438 on: March 07, 2012, 08:44:17 PM » |
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Fez winning the IGF came as a shock to nobody and a disappointment to everybody.
Man when I go to GDC or TIGJAM one of these days I'm going to have so many enemies...
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« Reply #1439 on: March 07, 2012, 08:45:54 PM » |
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does that imply you voted for another game maw?
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