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[brothers74]

just when soon as you make game which capturs love of six billion boys in wofl shirts with monety to spend. good luck mr. eres

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

if there are six billion boys in wolf shirts where are all the girls? the population of the world is six billion, so that means everyone is a boy and no one is a girl?

[gimymblert]

Who said all where human?

[brothers74]

its hyperbole

[dustin]

i just hope i don't go down in history as 'the guy who named minecraft' with my own games being forgotten

I had no idea you named minecraft until a couple of minutes ago but I have been familiar with your games (immortal defense mostly) for a couple of years.

[SirNiko]

There are no girls. Only boys with big chests.

[mirosurabu]

i just hope i don't go down in history as 'the guy who named minecraft' with my own games being forgotten

No, you will go down in history as 'the guy who posted on TigSource'.

[baconman]

I've also seen a number of indie fangames and spinoffs shot to hell by overprotective developers; and that absolutely tarnished the reputations of the original titleholders in irrepairable ways. A fine example is Konami basically acquiring "Roxor Games" for their DDR-like spinoff, In The Groove. ITG fanpeople - born of their initial love for DDR, is now this fractured community of DDR-haters now because of the legal action - that was completely within Konami's rights - that was taken, even though it had many arguable differences in gameplay.

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

@mirosurabu - i've seen so many forums come and go that i've my doubts tigsource will even be around in 10 years unfortunately

[Derek]

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

[moi]

and if it's still there in ten years, ban paul eres. I mean after 14 years of paul eres, everybody will be thankful.

[poe]

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

If the site dies in less than ten, please keep the domain name and have a picture of this post/challenge alongside this

[Zaphos]

Do that but load and re-save that image with low quality jpeg compression a few more times first.

[poe]

Do that but load and re-save that image with low quality jpeg compression a few more times first.

I just googled for it, but I'm all up for even more low quality just because.

[Tuba]

I was just looking at XBLIG week's best selling games and here is the top 5:

FortressCraft Chapter 1
Total Miner: Forge
Angry Fish
Dead Pixels
CastleMiner

Guess what game these games look like?

source: http://majornelson.com/2011/09/29/live-activity-for-week-of-september-19th/

[gimymblert]

They are all Mysims clone

[leonelc29]

nah...nevermind. we're tired of these thing and those are just lego clone.

[gimymblert]

I wonder when will the first AAA clone would appear. What can a ton of money and huge team do to the genre?

[AlexRamallo]

Rip offs are the most pathetic things anyone can ever make. Fan games are fan games, but rip offs are attempts at profiting off other peoples ideas. I used to cringe at the slightest hint of a rip off, but after a couple of months in the smartphone market I learned to get used to it. Honestly I think that every single project manager that works for big smartphone app companies is braindead. I don't have access to enough fingers to be able to count the number of cheap Angry birds ripoffs on the Android market. I hear a lot of people saying the CEOs are artists, visionaries, innovators, and 'game changers' (pun intended) but I have yet to see any proof of that.

[Tuba]

I wonder when will the first AAA clone would appear. What can a ton of money and huge team do to the genre?

I don't think that something like Minecraft is possible without the blocky graphics, for instance, Lords of Uberdark (that cell-shaded non-blocky Minecraft "clone") looks too complicated. Also the blocky graphics gave Minecraft a personality. So I don't think a big team and money can do much for it... although I'm sure that we'll see a lot of big companies try to cash in on the genre and fail hard because they can't understand what makes these games fun.