Game Developer Rants from the GDC

Jonbo298 · 03-12-2005, 02:58 PM

Good stuff, and interesting stuff

Perfect Stu · 03-12-2005, 07:04 PM

Sounds like people are wasting a WHOLE lot of energry doing their best to preach what they think "SHOULD BUT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!!!!!"

They make their little point, and the world has not changed the next day.

Thanks for coming out, though.

Honestly now...people will buy what suits their fancy. Whatever interests them. Companies do what they can to provide consumers with these products. Everything else is just mumbo jumbo that takes care of itself. Just because some talking head thinks this is 'oh-so-wrong' isnt going to do squat.

Maybe more people preferred 'Marble Madness' as opposed to 'Baseball Stars' back in 1987. Today, clearly more people prefer 'MVP Baseball 2005' over the latest puzzle game. That's just how it is. Niche games will always have their niche markets. Videogames have become much more mainstream, and the mainstream want games like Halo, Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Zelda and Madden NFL. That's where the money is...and that's the bottom line.

Games are not doing people an injustice today. If everyone (like one guy says) likes games that are INNOVATIVE and NEW and DIFFERENT, then EVERYONE will pay to buy them. And if that's the case, go make your innovative game, have people buy them, and let that be the end of it. Quit b*tching...the world doesnt owe you a living, you have to go out there and make it happen.

gekko · 03-20-2005, 08:55 PM

Actually they can make a difference. It's called small business. While EA may be trying for a monopoly, they get their employees from the same pool as everybody else. If the game developers aren't happy with what's going on, they slowly start to go away and do their own thing. Look how many gaming studios have been started after a few lead programmers broke away and created their own?

You don't think this stuff makes a difference, but how involved are you with the game development community? This is the same reason people fled to open source, and look at where that's at. the same thing happened in the web development community, and now there's more people than ever sticking to standards and open-source languages because they grew sick of playing Microsoft's game.

If game developers bitch to other game developers and they all agree on the same things, changes will be made, they have to, or they will lose their best employees.

Crash · 03-21-2005, 12:38 AM

great read. heh heh heh

oh course game developers are going to bitch... they are all a bunch of college-age or a little older, and that demographic bitches....

but you're right, unless people stop buying crappy games, publishers/developers will keep cranking out crappy games

mario party/madden/tony hawk/exteme whatever sport/

something new would be refreshing....

something like DDR/donkey konga/splintercell all great games with innovation

MuGen · 03-21-2005, 01:40 AM

Interesting read, but unfortunately I don't care about a few developer's rants. Rants are exactly what they are. Sometimes they are there to blow off steam, or they are there to force on others their own views.

Each brand has their brand games... And one of the rants coming from someone who is a designer of unplugged and table top games? Far be it for me to think this person just doesn't like the digital era?

In any case, my opinion is that the future will be the future. Why try to predict it and be disappointed in the long run. We live each day.... We don't live a week ahead. Live day by day, not worrying about what will come, only what can be if w/ the decisions you make.

Stray_Bullet · 03-21-2005, 05:16 PM

Hundreds of games will be made. Only a couple need to be good. I'll buy them, have some fun, save some money, and have spare time to boot! Yahoo.

Solid Snake · 03-22-2005, 03:08 PM

I think there is some truth to what they are ranting about, EA being a good example of a company that is a lot of graphics and poor game play. I also think that now that companies have the ability to cram a lot into a game they will find new ways of writting code, (like the ability to use C++ for example), that will make programming for the new games more streamlined.

I also agree with Stay Bullet, they will make hundreds of games but I will probably only buy around 10 or so of the very best.