Posts by selmitto

  • Are you man enough?

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    Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that i'm already home under my sister's care Everything went very smoothly with the operation. I managed to count to two before blacking out.

    Gonna be a few days of laying back doing nothing until I'm up and about. The tests to determine the nature and stage of the cancer aren't for a few days, so I have nothing to worry about for a few days

    That's great news!

    I hope you have a very happy and relaxing playtime during your rest

  • Dear Esther Getting Commercial Release

    http://gamasutra.com/view/news/164938/G ... honors.php

    Fuck yeah! congratz, Rob and team!!

  • Are you man enough?

    awww... best of luck to you, man!

    you are doing just right by treating this case with such a humor! show this thing who's the man. you are!

    we sometimes may get a little "oh noes, I won't do that" when we are about to examine our body. but man, this shit is serious. we can't play with it (or can we? if you now what I mean ...).

    thanks for sharing this. I thank you because this remembered me that I have to do an exam. not on the balls, though.

    keep us informed, with not that much details

  • Al Anselmo - Game Designer and Level Designer

    Hey tofu,

    Thanks a lot for the great and detailed feedback!

    [guys, sorry for the long post, but I need your feedbacks and I'd like to ask some questions in the end of it]

    How could I improve my portfolio presentation?

    Main Page:

    • I separated the projects according to my main attribution.

    Is it better and more organized?GetSalt:

    • This is my best game to this moment. The GDD is indeed complete. I didn't make the game public yet because after graduating, my team and I decided to extend its development to try to commercialize the game. So, we decided to "hide" it untill everything we planned later becomes complete.

      GetSalt is listed under "

    Design Docs" because I planned to show the entire GDD. I'm sure that would be really strong for my portfolio. But, as I mentioned, as we extended the development, I minimized the GDD content to show only the document structure/ Table of Contents - which is something important to have a feel of how I structure the information, right?

    I added a brief description (About) of the game, but I'll only feature GetSalt in the main page after releasing it - which is sad. I want all of MapCore to play it! All those precious feedbacks...! Homens de Negócios:

    • I agree with you that I should change the main image for one that shows the playtesting. Way more attractive, indeed!
      About the rules, at first I thought to include all of the Rule document, but maybe that's not really necessary to understand how the game works to be fun. Maybe a small section/ description should be fine? I'll work on it later, thanks!

    Design Docs:

    • I included Diablo to let visitors know that I'm currently active in its Beta Test, but I'll remove it and bring it back when the Beta is over and my documents/ links to forum threads are stabilized.

    Innsmouth:

    • I agree with your suggestions. I removed some of the screenshots to emphasize the level design part and I may add some of those level design illustrations that are in the .PDF, pointing the player direction. This is something valuable and was missing.

      That said, Innsmouth was one of my lovely graduate projects. As much as I can say that I learned a lot from that, today, being way more experienced, I can detect some flaws and things that I would easily do a lot better. So, that does not reflect my current knowledge and experience.

    QUESTIONS:

    - Do you think I should maintain the project in the portfolio? What do you guys think about that? Is it interesting and worthy presentation-wise? How all of you approach to this kind of situation (where a project in your portfolio seems outdated to your experience).


    I'm thinking if it's best to invest some time fixing those and translating parts of the documentation to update the portfolio, or if would be better to invest my time getting more experienced in Level Design with my current projects (Portal 2 mapping, for example) and substitute Innsmouth for them.

    Thank you again for the feedback, and thanks for reading everything haha

  • Dear Esther Getting Commercial Release

    I can't remember when it was te last time I experienced something so incredibly beautiful and inspiring. This is definitely one of the most wonderful "games" ever.

    I have to say that I don't pay too much attention for narratives (I should give it another try), but the art and environment were perfect. I got really attracted since the main menu screen where players see the shore in motion, to the end of the game.

    The slow walking speed gave me a bit of frustration early in the game. Sometimes I got confused of where I should go, specially on a section of the shore

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    where we see a kind of passage blocked by some rocks, to the right

    . I tried to go there because I thought that path continued my moving flow and because there was a wind blowing in that direction.

    The game description made clear that Dear Esther is not gameplay-focused. It's really interesting to notice that even in a medium where there were no interaction and gameplay - not a game, in a sense -, I got a LOT of wow moments. This was caused by the magistral art combined with the well executed sound design. Every place was wonderful, but the caves were... the most beautiful place ever. I took some screenshots to use as a personal wallpaper to look at it and get some inspiration.

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    The car accident mixed with underwater "memories" was really well thought out

    . The lighting work is incredible and creates some really deep atmosphere!

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    Apparently, I missed the ghosts and couldn't get into the boat, despite the dialog tell something about an entrance.

    I have to play it more. Thank you for providing such a great experience. I'd love to see more experiments like this one.