Message from @druiz

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2019-03-09 17:07:15 UTC  

North and South America have the same

2019-03-09 17:07:24 UTC  

The idea with this console design would be having the graphics components of the mask ROM pull double duty.

2019-03-09 17:16:24 UTC  
2019-03-09 17:22:02 UTC  

The hunter call of the wild has been fun

2019-03-09 19:18:58 UTC  

@Grump The Horrible Wolf 2 was my GOTY for 2017

2019-03-09 19:19:13 UTC  

What's Wolf 2?

2019-03-09 19:19:34 UTC  

Wolfenstein

2019-03-09 19:19:43 UTC  

Ah, ok.

2019-03-11 20:21:41 UTC  

Do you guys know of any "indie" developers of racing games? I kinda want to send someone the ideas I have and maybe get a job with that.

2019-03-11 20:22:17 UTC  

I've already worked in the gamedev side of things, not a rookie.

2019-03-11 21:30:28 UTC  

Yeah, ideas are cheap. VEEEEERRRRRRY cheap. What you need for such a job is skills.

2019-03-11 21:34:42 UTC  

I have worked as a tester and consultant in a PS4 game.

2019-03-11 21:34:48 UTC  

A rather sizeable one.

2019-03-11 21:35:16 UTC  

Consultant?

2019-03-11 21:35:39 UTC  

What did you do when you were a consultant?

2019-03-11 21:36:03 UTC  

Yes, I helped them make the game closer to reality by relaying rules of the real rulebooks regarding the competition.

2019-03-11 21:36:20 UTC  

Both about the vehicles and about the routes.

2019-03-11 21:36:57 UTC  

It was baffling how they did not know basic rules even non-hardcore fans of the race know.

2019-03-11 21:37:19 UTC  

Ok. Well, consultants are almost never creative directors or people who write the design docs, so you still need more skills.

2019-03-11 21:37:22 UTC  

The team was rather happy me but the game did not sell well enough so the company downsized quite a lot.

2019-03-11 21:40:06 UTC  

The studio was rather small even when I came in, around 40 people. They're currently at like 18 and almost nobody is working fulltime, most have sidejobs.

2019-03-11 21:41:09 UTC  

Well, being a consultant and tester on an unsuccessful game will be even less valuable on your resume, you definitely need other skills.

2019-03-11 21:41:52 UTC  

It wasn't my fault, there was a huge setback because the game changed engines rather late in development. It went from Unity to Unreal and that fucked the whole product quite a lot.

2019-03-11 21:42:09 UTC  

I didn't say it was your fault.

2019-03-11 21:42:21 UTC  

The main tool for a racing game is the vehicle-making tool, right? Imagine making a game with a broken tool because it is mostly incompatible with the freaking Unreal engine.

2019-03-11 21:42:36 UTC  

It also does not matter that it isn't your fault, it is still less valuable on your resume, like it or not.

2019-03-15 18:28:35 UTC  

Have you ever found a game so broken that a joke object or similar becomes a major almost-OP weapon? Well, that's what's happening with Trials Rising and the freaking BMX.

2019-03-15 18:34:04 UTC  

Is Trials Rising supposed to be about motor bikes?

2019-03-15 18:38:42 UTC  

Exactly, an exaggerated version of the actual motorcycling discipline.

2019-03-15 20:09:50 UTC  

trials is supposed to be a super hard physics based motorcycle game

2019-03-15 20:10:05 UTC  

i havent really heard anything about rising cuz i havent given it any thought

2019-03-15 20:15:50 UTC  

Well, now you know that the BMX is sometimes the best vehicle you can have on the harder sections. 😂 It's funny but I hate it because I know that this is proof they failed at doing a good job.

2019-03-15 20:16:58 UTC  

Isn't there some terrain mountain bikes are good for that motor bikes aren't?

2019-03-15 20:17:39 UTC  

BMX trials exist in real life but they can't do the stuff the motorbike guys can.

2019-03-15 20:18:01 UTC  

Also, in the game, the BMX doesn't behave like it does in real life, it's basically a "superlight electric motorbike".

2019-03-15 20:18:08 UTC  

Oh that's right, this is trials stuff, you don't go through actual terrain.

2019-03-15 20:18:22 UTC  

The torque is perfectly smooth, it's a straight, no curve.

2019-03-15 20:18:27 UTC  

lol

2019-03-15 20:19:13 UTC  

No you've got it all wrong, that's just the gearing, SR-9009, Roids and other drugs.

2019-03-15 20:19:52 UTC  

And it weights so little you can do certain stuff a bit better. The only true weak points?
· Top speed, this makes it rather useless for the easier stuff and some HARD/EXTREME sections.
· The bounce after a hard landing is smaller than the one you get off the actual trials-like motorbike, which makes some obstacle harder to overcome.