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How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by atoav »

paulmd wrote: post #14
wlesieutre wrote: post #6

My favorite piece of Goose Game fanart so far is this one: https://i.redd.it/wbts33d7u6u31.jpg A bad goose variation on https://i.imgur.com/WPuSziL.jpg It's a simple and hilarious game. Haven't finished it yet, but strongly recommend to anyone who's on the fence.

if this isn't the work of a viral marketing company, they certainly have the possibility of a new line of work ahead of them after this. I can't remember seeing a viral marketing campaign as effective as this in a long time. edit: this comment is apparently oddly controversial for a startup-oriented forum. Perhaps someone could explain why? They have really struck marketing gold in a way most small companies would en…

To be honest what sold it for me instantly was the combination of graphics, animation and these monty-pythonesque villagers. There are not that many humor-based games in any given year. So viral marketing or not, this game fills the rare niche of games I would give any non-gamer friend because they would enjoy it

Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by MaximumMadness »

Phillips126 wrote: post #38

Looks like a whole new genre of games have recently been invented: - Goat Simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvWGLcdI8o8 - Untitled Goose Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LL2AtHo1gk - Pigeon Simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb30jQ_Bpmg

You forgot the most important one:

Bread Simulator: https://www.bossastudios.com/games/i-am-bread/

Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by jonesetc »

Loughla wrote: post #105
adventured wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- SimAnt (1991): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt

Jesus, if there's one game I'd pay for again on Steam or other format, it's that one. Well, that and maybe the original Leisure Suit Larry, just to see why I wasn't allowed to open that game at all.

the internet archive has lots of dos games available to play in a ready to go emulator: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Leisure_Suit_Larry_1_-_Lan...

Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by PeterisP »

glogla wrote: post #93
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #17

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It nearly got me to purchase something on the Epic Store. Nearly.

I don't understand why people have problem with Epic Store. Isn't this just the competition everyone should want? Steam takes 30 % of your money. Epic takes 12 %. They are competing on cost. Why would that be a problem? Why is that part of capitalism where Steam has near-monopoly on Games okay, but not the part where they have to compete with someone? Why would someone have loyalty to one huge corporation over anothe…

That's how competition works - people voting with their wallets that the product sucks so much that being cheaper is not enough. Steam is competing with Epic store, and succeeding - for me it's the same, if it's exclusive to Epic store, then they apparently don't want my money because I'm not going to buy it there.

Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by nexuist »

danso wrote: post #13

I didn't read to the bottom, but just in case this wasn't mentioned: UGG was funded by a government grant, Film Victoria, specifically for game companies to "produce a prototype or full game, and marketing and related expenses" https://www.film.vic.gov.au/showcase/untitled-goose-game edit: I mention this as interesting trivia, not as in, "Watch out, Untitled Goose Game is a front for the (Australian) feds"

>Untitled Goose Game is a front for the (Australian) feds

It just keeps getting bettter!

Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by ThrustVectoring »

wl wrote: post #110
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #17

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It nearly got me to purchase something on the Epic Store. Nearly.

The Epic Store won't allow me to create an account because I was a victim of reverse identity theft ( https://www.xkcd.com/1279/ ) years ago. I guess Epic doesn't want me buying this or any other game from them. Too bad this game is only available there.

For gmail addresses, I usually attempt to solve duplicate email detection by adding either a + string or throwing in random periods. So you could try `j.ohnsmith@gmail.com` and `johnsmith+epic@gmail.com` and see if any of those work.

Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by tiglionabbit »

Phillips126 wrote: post #38

Looks like a whole new genre of games have recently been invented: - Goat Simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvWGLcdI8o8 - Untitled Goose Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LL2AtHo1gk - Pigeon Simulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb30jQ_Bpmg

I love the trend of animal games. I'm a big fan of Shelter (https://store.steampowered.com/app/244710/Shelter/)

Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by p1necone »

glogla wrote: post #93
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It nearly got me to purchase something on the Epic Store. Nearly.

I don't understand why people have problem with Epic Store. Isn't this just the competition everyone should want? Steam takes 30 % of your money. Epic takes 12 %. They are competing on cost. Why would that be a problem? Why is that part of capitalism where Steam has near-monopoly on Games okay, but not the part where they have to compete with someone? Why would someone have loyalty to one huge corporation over anothe…

The problem is that on top of that Epic has been paying developers extra money to release exclusively on the Epic store (and in some cases it seems they've struck deals for the dev to just not release on steam specifically, but still release on other Epic store competitors). This seems like blatantly anti competitive behaviour to me and I don't want to support it.

If devs were just choosing to not release on steam because epic gives a bigger cut that would be fine, but that isn't the case.

Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by freehunter »

rthomas6 wrote: post #88
colechristensen wrote: post #76

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There's nothing wrong with crying or in general showing or having emotions, "negative" or otherwise. Some people just have that reaction to difficulty and frustration or whatever else, it doesn't have to mean that an environment is terrible or immoral if people cry about it sometimes.

But maybe if it happens often enough that you need a "crying room", something is wrong.

Sometimes it’s going to be unavoidable. I used to work in help desk and at least once a week an employee would either cry, or take their phone out of the queue and storm out of the office, something to that effect. I remember two occasions where an employee punched a hole in the wall. I took a day off work because one of the callers threatened to come to the office with his gun if I couldn’t solve his problem.

Sometimes there are jobs that have to be done but that make it really hard to control your emotions. And some people have a really hard time controlling their emotions anyway. It’s better to have a safe place to let that out.

Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

rodgerd wrote: post #65
potta_coffee wrote: post #41

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I bought Outer Worlds on the Epic store. Bah. I don't like the Epic store but I really wanted to play that game. Game is awesome, I'm really not sure what deal ensured it wouldn't be on Steam.

If you can sell through one storefront for 70% and another for 85%, it's kind of obvious.

Yes, choose the 70% ... apparently (latest figures I could find) Epic has 85M registrations vs. 1000M (yes, a billion) for Steam.

Steam are claimed to have 90M active monthly users, I can't find a figure for Epic; it stands to reason it's less though, maybe half their registered users (now Fortnite lost its shine??) would be a reasonable guess?

It probably depends on your demographic considerably; basically if Epic have less than 79M active and the demographics are the same then revenue from Steam will be greater, across a wider user base (which might improve ongoing prospects?).

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