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Re: This Post Took 3 Years to Write

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Post by codegeek »

"Like who you work with: In life, and in business, surrounding yourself with people you enjoy makes difficult times easy."

A very underrated statement. This really matters. No matter what you do in life, it always comes down to the people you do it with. E.g. People don't leave a company, they leave their boss. People don't leave a marriage, they leave their spouse etc etc.

Re: This Post Took 3 Years to Write

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Post by baq »

Revex wrote: post #12
pfraze wrote: post #9

Good work! I tried out the tutorial and thought it was pretty good, but wanted more before signing up. I'd recommend putting in another larger battle where the tutorial ends, so I can get a feel for how the game plays.

I felt the same way. And then I signed up with a bogus account, and it wanted an e-mail verification.... Why make me e-mail verify?

it's a free to play game, so they need a way to talk you into spending money :)

Re: This Post Took 3 Years to Write

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Post by analyst74 »

codegeek wrote: post #21

"Like who you work with: In life, and in business, surrounding yourself with people you enjoy makes difficult times easy." A very underrated statement. This really matters. No matter what you do in life, it always comes down to the people you do it with. E.g. People don't leave a company, they leave their boss. People don't leave a marriage, they leave their spouse etc etc.

That is a very valuable statement, however, in longer term commitments like friendship and marriage, the prerequisite you can continue to like the people around you, is that you must first like yourself. You will eventually start to see yourself in their eyes.

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Post by tigroferoce »

kenpratt wrote: post #3
nonchalance wrote: post #2

Something that is not said often enough: congratulations on launching! Even if it was years behind schedule

Thanks! I'm more of the "launch early and iterate" philosophy, but unfortunately with games you need to be much more polished than a web/SaaS app.

Agree. Congrats. BTW, the game is just great. Keep working.

Re: This Post Took 3 Years to Write

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Post by Kiro »

codegeek wrote: post #21

"Like who you work with: In life, and in business, surrounding yourself with people you enjoy makes difficult times easy." A very underrated statement. This really matters. No matter what you do in life, it always comes down to the people you do it with. E.g. People don't leave a company, they leave their boss. People don't leave a marriage, they leave their spouse etc etc.

I don't agree. I prefer to work and be alone.

Re: This Post Took 3 Years to Write

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Post by Widdershin »

kenpratt wrote: post #3
nonchalance wrote: post #2

Something that is not said often enough: congratulations on launching! Even if it was years behind schedule

Thanks! I'm more of the "launch early and iterate" philosophy, but unfortunately with games you need to be much more polished than a web/SaaS app.

An interesting example of this is Dejobaan "1, 2, 3 Kick It! Drop that beat like an ugly baby" which is effectively a mashup of their earlier game, "AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!" and AudioSurf. They released a prototype to pre purchasers, which then they put on Steam (privately) for ease of distribution.

Leading up to Portal 2's release, with the potato promotion, a still unfinished "Kick It!" was involved as part of the promotion, with users needing to obtain a certain ingame achievement. However, it was not at all made clear to users that this game was still in alpha. Tons of users had a bad experience, and a game that wasn't even really intended to be played yet ended up getting exposed to the games industry at large, of course, with a horrible reception.

Re: This Post Took 3 Years to Write

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Post by robinh »

pfraze wrote: post #9

Good work! I tried out the tutorial and thought it was pretty good, but wanted more before signing up. I'd recommend putting in another larger battle where the tutorial ends, so I can get a feel for how the game plays.

Agreed, although I must say I was positively surprised that I could actually try out the game before having to sign up in the first place. More people should definitely do something like this.

Re: This Post Took 3 Years to Write

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Post by jurassic »

huhtenberg wrote: post #17

In Tutorial, when being instructed to place the 8th-grader, it's not clear that it should be placed on a specific tile out of 6 (?) highlighted. Took me some clicking around to notice that small green arrow against greenish tile and realize that. Later on, same hiccup with "Now press forward". Green smallish arrow against cyan background next to green header pointing at green field... you see where I'm going. -- All…

I had the same issue with the tutorial. Looks very polished, too. Congrats on launching.
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