What do you think about traditional game publishing vs going solo on Kickstarter or similar? I didn't know you had a game published, that's neat.
I shopped my games out before there was a Kickstarter!
I did self publish about 50 high quality copies of one of my games and I made good profit off of each one but I didn't have the distribution that even a minor company has. In fact when I tried partnering up with a minor company they didn't want to partner up, they wanted to buy me out. Basically offered me chump change to sell all of the rights to my game to them.
It took me a while to find a small company that was willing to license my creation and pay a royalty as opposed to a company that just wanted my creation with no long term relationship.
Kickstarter makes the dream possible if:
A. You get noticed and funded. B. You are able to arrange all of the production issues. C. You have the drive to see it all the way through.
Has Steam been being weird for anyone else? It's been drastically upping my play time for my games, and it changes all the time.
I only played Mark of the Ninja for 4 hours.
From what I can tell, it will sometimes show the times for another game you had selected beforehand, especially if you use the search function to find the game you're now looking at.
Or you can do what I did and sell out a lesser game to a small company to get your name out there and use that initial publication to further the prospects of your better games.
Grr... That moment after you hit send when you realize you misspelled a word in your email that changes the entire meaning of a sentence.
It's not as bad as that moment after you finish chanting when realize you miss-worded a spell in your summoning and it changes the entire meaning of the ritual. Then Orcus comes and eats your arrogant wizard ass for daring to disturb him.
So I've been reading a bit of Sci-fi recently and the big thing seems to be that given half a change people in the feuter have an orgy. Sometimes not even for any reason beyond they can. Its like we get into space, get lazers and think whelp better have an orgy. I finished Ghost Brigade by Scalzi and even then an orgy wormed its way in. Im not some crazy puritan, I consume as much filth as the next self respecting Britisher does, but man sience fiction has got a hard on for orgys.
Haha yeah theres that. I would need to go back and reread some of Bank's stuff but I got the vibe that there was a lot more freedom in his take of the sexual feutre. The ability to change gender and all that stuff. I always felt that he hit the nail on the head pretty well when it came to that stuff in writing. Maybe its a matter of the skill of the writer in adressing the material/
With military sci-fi I can certainly see the logic of a squad that fights together fucks together but as you said it feels to wish fulfillment. Its a cool idea that could be done better,as it stands it just feels a bit tright and over used. I mean theres a great relationship between two characters in Ghost Brigade that in now way needs to have the hypersexual elements. The book as a whole doesn't need it. Hell if I had the skills as a writer I'd love to address it maybe in my Norwor peice. The idea of a Sacred Band esqu unit.
Why don't I get to read sci-fi with orgies in them? At best, I'll get a lame sex scene where the protagonist and an opposite-sex character are kinda bored and do it cuz, well, shit... may as well throw some of that into the story... but never any orgies.
How about some Altered Carbon, its a master peice of sci-fi fucking. If the dude could he would fuck his way to victory whilst squirting sex musk from his dick glands. (I am not making this up). The Forgotten War has quite a bit of it through out as does Old Mans war off the top of my head. Then again the latter is a bit more understandable as given their situations I would be going like a rabbit as well. Maybe its a thing authers need to do before they can get on with the story? "Hup better crack out this sex scene then get on with my tense drama on the rights of man".
People can scream high and low that it's plagiarism, but that is nothing new to the music industry. And, Honestly, I think it's fine. No art exists in a vacuum, right? To quote Woody Guthrie: “The words are the important thing. Don’t worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.”
This article seems rather alarmist. http://midsizeinsider.com/en-us/article/keyboards-obsolete-as-pcs-decline I understand that PC sales are slowing (perhaps due to PCs having a longer shelf life), but is it really time to say the keyboard is dying? I'm really wondering where all this doom and gloom about PCs is coming from. Is it just a bunch of analysts wishing it were so?
So my brother still hasn't signed up for any coverage on the CT ACA exchange. I told him shit, get gay married and split the difference. He doesn't even have to kiss or anything.
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I only played Mark of the Ninja for 4 hours.
I did self publish about 50 high quality copies of one of my games and I made good profit off of each one but I didn't have the distribution that even a minor company has. In fact when I tried partnering up with a minor company they didn't want to partner up, they wanted to buy me out. Basically offered me chump change to sell all of the rights to my game to them.
It took me a while to find a small company that was willing to license my creation and pay a royalty as opposed to a company that just wanted my creation with no long term relationship.
Kickstarter makes the dream possible if:
A. You get noticed and funded.
B. You are able to arrange all of the production issues.
C. You have the drive to see it all the way through.
If you want to treat it like a job then go the traditional way. If you want to completely own your game then kickstart it.
Thanks for the insight!
It seems to sometimes throw x extra hours to every game's playtime. Once it was 40 something hours, other time 90.
Good times.
With military sci-fi I can certainly see the logic of a squad that fights together fucks together but as you said it feels to wish fulfillment. Its a cool idea that could be done better,as it stands it just feels a bit tright and over used. I mean theres a great relationship between two characters in Ghost Brigade that in now way needs to have the hypersexual elements. The book as a whole doesn't need it. Hell if I had the skills as a writer I'd love to address it maybe in my Norwor peice. The idea of a Sacred Band esqu unit.
How about now?
People can scream high and low that it's plagiarism, but that is nothing new to the music industry. And, Honestly, I think it's fine. No art exists in a vacuum, right? To quote Woody Guthrie: “The words are the important thing. Don’t worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.”
EDIT: -_- I hate typos.
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2013/halloween-hacks-on-science-friday/
*sigh*