Posts by Zacker

  • Illegal downloading and mapcore

    Music: Buy it all, now that proper digital stores finally work as they should. That is, I have free downloads of music included in my ISP subscription at a reasonable price.

    Games: Haven't bought a physical game in 2-3 years now. Of the games I actually play though, I buy almost all of them - much love for Steam. Still got some cracked copies laying around for certain games though.

    Movies: The good ones I watch in the cinema, the rest I download at shady places.

  • The scary case of Infinity Ward

    Quote from Warby

    the cluster fuck continues:http://kotaku.com/5491675/rumor-why-cal ... ing-around

    apperently the other emplyoees are sticking around despite meager pay becasue activision hasnt paid out the promised royalties to them either ! and they probably wont for a while in order to keep the emplyoees from mass deflecting ...

    i hate these kind of buisness methods *anger*

    Forcing employees to stay with those kind of methods is the same as forcing employees to sneak in midget porn everywhere in your products. As in, that is what I hope the employees do if this is the case.

  • Interstellar Marines Webgame

    The guys behind this (danish company) were for some years trying to make a full blown game, back then on the Unreal engine. They got hit hard by the financial crisis though and had to cut employees and rethink their development strategy. This resulted in the idea of "AAA Indie" where they try to get the game funded by the community by continuously delivering updates. So there is no finished game as of yet.

    Despite the sadness of them having worked for 5+ years and still only having a very simple browser game I still think they should be given some props for doing whatever they can to get to develop the game.

  • Zero Gear - an indie multiplayer kart racing game

    Slight bump of the thread here, hope that's ok. I played this game once during the beta and now I just played the demo again. Neither of the times did I like it at all :/ There is something about the controls which makes it feel like you don't really have any contact with the surface at all, your vehicle just seems to be floating along the ground. There did not really appear to be much to the game either; granted I have probably seen half of the features, but what I have seen so far did not seem of much. And worst, driving around was not in any way pleasing and that is kinda concern to me in a racing game.

    Now however, I did like an ironic touch such as the Indie-ness factor. And you shouldn't mind my comments anyway, as the game it reminded me the most of is some of the old Mario Kart games, which I also absolutely saw no fun in. Many people however did Also, I see that you are having some quite nice sales on Steam! It has slowed down a bit now, but still you have for weeks been outselling some quite high profile games, I am very impressed by this!

    I was wondering, what is your company strategy onwards? I can imagine that the revenue from your iPhone games has almost been able to cover all expenses related to the ZG development thereby leaving you in a favorable position with very little debt (or none) to payoff? But I doubt the revenue of ZG is enough to cover the development cost of your next game?

    So will you keep on adding features to Zero Gear and hoping that the sales will continue to be higher than the cost of the continued development? Or just give it basic life support and go develop a sequel, or another game, and then hope that the game has a long enough tail to provide you with liquidity until the release of the sequel? Or try and both expand ZG while developing another game and thereby stretching your already limited developer resources?

    You got lots of challenges ahead of you, but you to have proven to have the talent and dedication to take them on. Good luck

  • Black Mesa Source

    A piece comment from a dedicated Black Mesa fan:

    Black Mesa looked amazing a few years back, but it is indeed showing it's age by now. A little sad that it won't be the visuals nor the tech which will make me want to be play it, but more the fine original story, gameplay and level design. In which case I might almost as well be playing the original HL?

  • Tasty Static

    I loved SkyRoads and in a spur of nostalgia I decided to try this also. Turned out to have an absolutely horrible control scheme with your avatar failing a the worst possible thing: Not doing what I want it to.