Posts by KoKo5oVaR

  • 2K on Bioshock: "Why should your brother play for free?

    Quote from Furyo

    I'm always wary of any "OMFG Boycott" reactions. They get blown out of proportion every time, and it's just not part of my culture. The "I'm never buying anything from them in my life" attitude is just too simple for my own taste.

    Then try to find me what other pressure means could you have against a publishing company as a customer rather than giving them no money ?

    Open a competitive publishing company ? Being super rich and buying all their actions ? Going all John Wayne and rampaging the publisher's offices ??

    But haha, yeah actually if every single angry player of bioshock buy actions from 2k games and then altogether ask for their money, they are ruined

  • Level Designer - Some questions

    600 - 700 euros in france sounds pretty reasonable for an appartment of 40 m² or so. Still with that price in paris, you get a 20 m².. IF YOU FIND ONE

    Quote from Steppenwolf

    In Stockholm i will have to pay 600-700 Euro rent for a one room appartment alone.

    And holy shit that must be more than the half of your salary going into it

  • How are you doing?

    Awesome thread indeed, and i think really healthy for mapcore

    Well these days will be i hope a new turn in my life, it's been now 5 years that i was studying stuff in Electrical engineering : 3 years at college and 2 years at university. I really wanted to work in the game industry before getting into all that, but i was convincing myself back then that i should study to get "a more serious job", just in case a career in the game industry couldn't work..

    I should have graduate after my two years at university, and i needed a 10/20 to do so, well unfortunately, i had a 9,7/20 .. Tough stuff. Yeah mathematics aren't my thing since i was 13.

    I had to work in an electronics company during that last year, and that was really terrible, the only moments the employees were speaking to each other were to say "morning" or "evening", we could talk about politics or the weather, maybe football sometime.. The only passion some of these guys had was working for working, it's not that they liked electronics, it was to appease some kind of culpability " I have a work, i work more than you, here me roar". And i told myself one thing when i was there : "I don't want to have a life like this."

    So rather than doing another boring year just to get a paper and a nervous breakdown for a work that i'm sure i don't want to do, i decided to try to get into the game industry as an artist that year.

    I postulated, and was accepted in a new formation about CG arts applied to games. It's basically a collaboration between a public university and an association of game developers around Lyon, we will be only 20 and our teachers will be people from development studios, but we will not learn how to draw or how to use 3dsmax, but more something like leading a project, getting in touch with the new technologies etc ..

    Well i'm pretty excited to start although i have to say, all this is quite stressful, it's a bit like jumping blindly in a dark hole for me. Let's hope i could make contacts and find any cool work offers after that year.

    The thing is, i don't really feel motivated these days about mapping and any other 3d work. It's not that i've lost any inspiration, actually the ideas are coming every time at every moment, it's the process of dedicate a lot of my hours to make that idea a reality that kind of bore me. And i find that a bit scary if i want to do something in the game industry..

    But yeah doing this as job, i will certainly get over it i suppose .

    Other than that, yeah, life is cool. Although a bit empty these days, like any end of holidays i suppose.. Next year i've taken resolutions, i'll have to find myself a girlfriend, cool thing is that i will be in an university with a majority of girls ( last year it was 196 guys for 4 chicks, electrical engineering ftw ). So yeah let's hope haha

  • BioShock demo up on XBL!

    Quote from buddy the designer

    If anyone would get a scene release of this, then he is a fucking moron.Sorry.

    Actually i think the exact contrary, why would i buy a game that give me an insecure and complicated activation process, rather than getting a version free of all that jizz. Let's say i want to play Bioshock in 5 years, with the repeated installations and uninstallations during 5 years don't you think i'll have already lost my 2 activations ? Then goes the hard process of emailing/phoning the companies which will redirect me to the other and so on, or even better.... tell me to buy another copy of Bioshock. ;x

    I don't think i'll buy the game, several friends and me included wanted to do it at first because holy shit, games like that have to be supported, but i don't want to support such a constraining activation system. Because if i do, i'll be the real moron in the story.. and for the next coming years ..