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[Guert]

Attention all indie developers!

If you desire to submit your game to the grinder, please post your game here.

Submission rules:
-You have to introduce yourself, the team behind the game and where you are heading with the game
-You have to post the name of the game, a simple description and at least one screenshot.
-You must be serious about developing the game
-You must be indie!
-You must have at least posted 10 times
-You must be able to provide a public demo so others can try the game

This thread is for submissions and relevant comments only .

What is Guert's grinder?

The grinder is a very long and hard critic of a game in development. It is aimed at everyone who as an interest in developing games. Those who truly desire it may post their game on this thread. And when I say truly, I REALLY mean it. A game that will go through the grinder will be attacked from every front, tested, trashed, ran down and ripped apart by yours truly. Why? So that we can learn along the way on how to make our game stronger, tougher and flawless...

And yes, this is all for learning sake. I want to make this an interesting read for others as well so that we all learn from a mistake that anyone could make.

So, for those who submits to the Grinder, do not expect any easy praises and yes, you will get hurt  This won't be for the faint of heart.

Once a game will be grinded, everyone will be free to discuss about what I said because in the ned, no soul owns the utlimate thruth: it comes from an amalgamate of different visions of the same subject.   

Grinds will be posted in their own threads. There we will be able to discuss. The grinds should be monthly, in theory, but since they take a lot of time to create, I can't promise a specific rate. Might be often, might be not, time will tell...

That's pretty much it!
Take care all!

Games waiting for grinding

None

Past Grinds

Space Barnacle

Devastation

Roach toaster 2

LexVenture

BattleShip Forever

On hold
-Fez (Fish)

[Radnom]

-You have to post the name of the game, a simple description and at least one screenshot.
All that's in this topic 
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=571.0

-You have to introduce yourself, the team behind the game and where you are heading with the game
I'm Radnom, I'm doing all the coding, graphics and sound effects for the game. I have some guys (Super Fine Spunk Princess) doing all the music. I've been working on this game on and off for over a year now.
I want to get the game done alongside my various school projects.
The game will be released for free.
I'd like to add a lot more to the game in the form of levels, boss battles and enemies, but I'm a little unsure of how I can stop the game getting too repetitive.
I want to make the game as good as I can, but I'd like expectations to be reasonable, as I am but one man.

-You must be serious about developing the game
I've never been more dedicated to a project.

-You must be indie!
As indy as I can be, haha

-You must have at least posted 10 times
At the time I'm posting, I've got 53..

[Tr00jg]

-You have to introduce yourself, the team behind the game and where you are heading with the game

Shotbeak Games is pretty a one man adventure. I have outsourced some sprites and menu art to other people, but the rest is pretty much me. The man behind it is me (duh), Simon de la Rouviere. I plan to hopefully release the game as my first foray into shareware somewhere in the beginning next year.

-You have to post the name of the game, a simple description and at least one screenshot.

Check the Roach Toaster 2 topic. (new screenies will be posted soon).

-You must be serious about developing the game

I have been working on it for +- 13 months all through other aspects of life.

-You must be indie!

 

-You must have at least posted 10 times

Ah yep!

P.S. I justed post this to get my place. I will hopefully upload a new version to be grinded sometime before the end of the week. I have my final school exams coming up, so I wont have that much time to work on it (during the exams of course).

[fish]

i would like to place a reservation for a grinding when im done with fez, whenever that is.


-You have to introduce yourself, the team behind the game and where you are heading with the game

i am fish, hear me roar.

-You have to post the name of the game, a simple description and at least one screenshot.

fez is a game about funny little red hats.

-You must be serious about developing the game

im so serious its funny.

-You must be indie!

im so indie its not funny.

-You must have at least posted 10 times

you know it.

[Guert]

Fish, I can't tell if you're serious or simply joking anymore...

[fish]

i seriously want you to grind my game when its done.
seriously.

[Melly]

i seriously want you to gring my game when its done.
seriously.

Is it just me or does that sound really dirty?

[Tex Pine]

Hay everyone,

My name is Tiago Tex Pine, I'm one of the partners of Interama Games (http://www.interama.net). I am new here at the forums, but since May I've been reading the TIGSource RSS feed, and played some of the games posted there. I like it, I find games with concepts I can't find anywhere else  (some of them I don't even understand how to play, like Cortex Command, lol).

I'm going to provide now the link to download ans screenshots. I introduce myself, my team and the project below (it turned out to be quite long, lol). I am also aware that I don't have 10 posts, but we do need this kind of review Guert provides.

http://www.interama.net/lex/LexVenture_Beta_0.88_English.exe

Screenshots:

http://www.interama.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/screenshot161.jpg
http://www.interama.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/screenshot09.jpg
http://www.interama.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/screenshot14.jpg
http://www.interama.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/screenshot17.jpg




We have this game, LexVenture, that we believe is close to the final version. However, we do need (a lot) to test its Beta version more. This is a word game, but word games are not widely popular in our home country (Brazil), so we can't find many experienced testers, even with the Portuguese version of the game.

I know what you might think - "if word games are not popular in the country, why bother to make a Portuguese version?". Well, because there are word games fans, and because this is a country that badly needs its citizens to read more. I mean, BADLY, and this is a kind of game that schools look for.

Anyway, I'd like to grind the English version of LexVenture here. We are a team of 8 developers (http://www.interama.net/?page_id=25), among programmers, artists and a musician. We have been developing the game for almost one year. We changed many things since the original concept, because we tried to create some innovation over the traditional board word games mechanic (like Scrabble and Upwords), in such a way that the game could not exists outside the virtual world (as a boxed board game, for example).

This is THE most important project for all of us. We invested everything we earned in 2006 (working on game assets outsourcing), and the company has not even earned a dime since January. The partners invested their economies as well, because innovating gameplay, as you all surely know, takes time and can't really comply Project planning and fixed scheduled dates.

We didn't have any help of publishers, distributors, nor anyone already involved on game industry. In fact, we are just starting to getting in touch with them, because we need to begin evaluating distribution contracts and stuff. We did have help of the Brazilian Department of Culture, but a financial help, not a specialized one (and it covered only 30% of total costs).

That's why I do think we can be named serious indie developers. We are following our own concepts and intuition, we are deadly serious about this game, and now our future as a game company depends on it.

I would like to thanks in advance to anyone that can help us testing it! An on a final word, I expect no less than an absolute, merciless grinding of this game.

[Derek]

Hey, Tiago, you need at least 10 posts to receive a grinding (:D).  Which I think is fair.  Otherwise, anyone can just walk up off the street and ask for a grinding (:D).

[fish]

anyone can just walk up off the street and ask for a grinding (:D).

man, i hate when that happens.

[Eden]

oh the innuendo... 

[Radnom]

By the time Guert's grinded through the other games on the list, Tex'll have more than ten posts

[Tex Pine]

Well, ok then...

[Guert]

Tex, just give some comments to other game and stay active until you get your game grinded and everything will be fair.

Just like Derek said, I don't like people I just met walking up to me and ask ing "about a grind?". We need to get to know each other before we do that.

(Man, that grind term is really great! It's dirty, rough, serious and funny, all at the same time! :D)
Later!

[Tex Pine]

Sure thing, Guert. I agree with you indeed. Actually, I've been browsing on this Feedback forum, it is as great as the TIGSource RSS feed to meet new ideas and concepts. I should have some opinions on them by this weekend.

Seeya.

[fish]

seriously, grindingis gonna go down in history.
years from now, kids will use it to refer to somekind of super in dept super-review without knowing where the word came from. but we'll know.

IGN EXCLUSIVE HALO 5 GRIND
40 PAGES OF GRINDING!

we'll know.

[Melly]

Halo 5?

God forbid.

[Tr00jg]

Halo 5?

God forbid.

After seeing that it is the biggest game ever, I would not be surprised to see Halo 7.

[Melly]

Yay for license milking!

Just wrap your lips there and suck hard, babies.

[Alec]

Just wrap your lips there and suck hard, babies.

Halo 7

Finish the Fight

For Realz this Time