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I haven't seen anyone respond to this. Independent game production is a business like any other, and just like any profession, networking and communicating with your peers is invaluable. Professional awards and events are crucial both to your visibility as an entity, and to the continued growth of the industry.
Unless you are proposing that these events should be held in a virtual world that everyone can hook up to, what do you expect? You do not have to live in LA to make a good game that gets publicly recognized. Industry events are going to happen in major metro areas because yeah, that's how conferences work. I mean, what would the difference be if they were held in Chicago or Tuscaloosa or Indianapolis? It's always going to be far away for someone. And if there's already a deal in place for convention space in a set location every year, where a large portion of the peers already live, why would they move it around the country? That shit is expensive, like, millions of dollars expensive. This part of the article seems to just bemoan the fact that the conferences aren't happening in Second Life.
well have I got a writer for you
One small step from capital letters to capitalism.
It's Internet Legos, what's not to love?
It's incredibly tedious and ugly-looking Internet Legos
Let me tell you about video games. Let me tell you about Homestuck
One of the guys opened a tool kit and everything just shot out like it was on springs. It was all tethered, but tools were everywhere.
They pretty much all imply that you cheating on them is their fault and not yours
Let me tell you about video games. Let me tell you about Homestuck
But I lose patience with minecraft after about 30 minutes of playing it
Let me tell you about video games. Let me tell you about Homestuck
I've actually seen a video of somebody playing their D&D campaign in Minecraft. This was before the content modding scene appeared so they did something funky with five extra accounts for monsters they could move around, but some neat stuff came out of it like vertical maps that were not a pain in the ass to deal with and individual line of sight requiring members to communicate the situation.
Let me tell you about video games. Let me tell you about Homestuck
Otherwise it's a fairly bland building blocks game that has potential but you have to invest a lot of time and effort to really get your money's worth, in my opinion.
of all the ways to completely reject someone's perspective
I like what people can create in Minecraft, I like watching people play Minecraft (particularly the Yogscast and Achievement Hunter LPs), but I think I would need a dedicated group of people like that to really enjoy it.
I build a pretty utilitarian base and then never stray very far from it because it is extraordinarily easy to get lost and/or die, so I try to make my base pretty cool looking, then delete my world and start over.
GFWL: Genesius Prime / PSN: Genesius_Prime / Origin: genesiusprime / 3DS: 4871-3718-5715
Good work
Accolades all around
saves everyone some time
However much it is said, don't judge a book by its cover, people still do that.
I feel like this is a really lazy argument to make because everything aside from proper capitalisation, that entire post is incredibly well written, formatted properly, and entirely accessible. Just because the author went with their own style which does not actually detract from their point, does not warrant a wholesale dismissal of their motive and intent simply because they don't meet you expectations of grammar.
It's essentially coming off like you're saying tl;dr to something that actually contains an element of introspection the video games industry as a whole lacks, and frankly it's frustrating because as lazy as you may think it is to not hit shift a handful of times, it's even more lazy that you can't bring yourself to read and contextualise a writing style that is actually very accessible and well-written. It just seems pedantic and petty.
Bro you are being mega silly about the sizes of some letters
It ain't like your brain has to fire extra neurons to decode an all lower-case post
Also you say it seems both lazy AND requiring pointless effort, which is contradictory to the max.
To the max, bro.
also that is the most pedantic excuse i've seen in ever for a reason why somebody has refused to read something
I'll go away now. My apologies.
Crank the gravity up boom no floaty jump physics
Don't like that then program your own sackbot that plays with its own unique physics rules that you define
Or make a top-down game that has no jump physics at all
Lbp gives you a shit-ton of options for making things and wraps it up in an easy and intuitive interface
Let me tell you about video games. Let me tell you about Homestuck
can little big planet do grid combat
Nope, it's permanent. It kicks you to the title screen, but it stays after a reload.
It's an exponential sine function, where there is a period of alternating peaks and troughs of approval for the game (this is the case with every game, ever), and each subsequent peak or trough is higher or deeper than the last.
We're due for Bioshock Infinite to enter It's Awesome for the second time in about 17 days.
Minecraft Atlas...
Finally they internet combined Minecraft and Libertarian iconography. Now if only it can find a way to make tabby cats and fedoras mate.
didn't mean it that way