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Do you know what happened to the project to redo GG2 in Python?
It got abandoned after a bit. Nobody is willing to do the work needed to "finish" it.
That pretty much defines 'art' I think. The artist is compelled to see the vision through, it isn't about the money or the time or the cost. I am quite impressed he stuck it through. A long time ago (1983 to be precise) I started rewriting Empire, a curses based turn based strategy game (Hi Walter!) because I was convinced I could make it so much better and I had spent a lot of hours playing it. When I was at Intel w…
I had a similar thought when I watched the video. Actually, I thought about the concept of 'Quality' as introduced in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Two moments in particular: - the consistent lighting part: the guy is making this giant epic thing, so you'd think he would cut himself some slack on what really looks like a detail (I wouldn't have noticed it, especially not in this type of game). And yet, t…
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It got abandoned after a bit. Nobody is willing to do the work needed to "finish" it.
Considered a ground-up rewrite using something like Unity? They have some kickass 2D tooling now, plus you get physics for free
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> a text based online football game What? Can you describe it differently? I have no concept of how this could be played.
You are the GM of a team. You play against 31 other players in a professional league. You sign free agents, draft players, deal with injuries, choose plays for your team to run, when you want. Every real day, is a game "week" so you play a game a day, unless it's the offseason. You have a salary cap you have to deal with. Trade with other human players. Try to win the Championship. A season lasts a real time month fr…
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I feel exactly the opposite. To hell with graphics and story-telling - I want to play a GAME with good GAMEPLAY
What exactly does that mean?
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What exactly does that mean?
Maybe he means that, when he wants to be told a story, he reads a book or watches a movie, and when he wants to play a game, he plays a game. I feel mostly this way myself: when I want to do something interactive, I want to do something interactive, not watch cutscenes or listen to or read dialogue. I guess this is why singleplayer story-driven games have never interested me very much, and why I prefer multiplayer ga…
I know I've had this same type of vision, except it was when I was making wads for doom. I had this wild idea of making this "super awesome" multi-level castle. I soon was bogged down with slowness and trying to do things the engine just couldn't handle causing artifacting et. al. Anyway, unlike this guy, I just gave up. :D
Windows-only sigh How difficult would it be to port this? edit: it's not a snarky, rhetorical, question – I really want to play this
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> a text based online football game What? Can you describe it differently? I have no concept of how this could be played.
You are the GM of a team. You play against 31 other players in a professional league. You sign free agents, draft players, deal with injuries, choose plays for your team to run, when you want. Every real day, is a game "week" so you play a game a day, unless it's the offseason. You have a salary cap you have to deal with. Trade with other human players. Try to win the Championship. A season lasts a real time month fr…