MrHoatzin

I would imagine they plan to throw a lot more people into the late production in January and roll through the rest of the production in a couple of months finishing the remaining 75% of the game thusly. Whatever gets released early I hope will be a vertical slice down the first acts of both the kids (in some kind of 1/2 of Something Great Pseudo Alpha Build), rather than full act of either one of them (as Part 1). I also hope that the 2PP peeps have some kind of flexible scope creep contract that allows them to be paid for the extra filming protracted production incurs. The behind-the-scenes soap opera has been a super important winning-the-hearts-and-minds PR without which this constant reaching for fans' pockets wouldn't work as effectively. I hope this DF/2PP symbiosis is something that continues for other projects past Massive Chalice and Broken Age. Personally, I wish there was a way to buy more backer t-shirts. I was poor when the Kickstarter kicked off and have wished I had a way to re-extend my support here in the later days but with some kind of trophy in return (that is not a poster).

I know it's possible because Sal Limones did it at some point and her posts stayed. Don't go. What did we do?

I like how aggressively, confidently bad these are. I mean that as an unequivocal compliment too! Also OSSK, your plug didn't fail! I have RSS'd them yer games and am looking forward to more blogging and the actual game.

A page from Old Echoes, Lety's and my story from The Sleep of Reason. I did the backgrounds and she drew the kids. I said a little bit more about the whole collection in the comics thread. I'm pretty stoked about the whole thing.

HEY FOLKS! The Sleep of Reason Kickstarter is a thing, finally! Spike Trotman of Templar Arizona fame is putting it all together: Some awesome people are in it, check out that list (Lety and myself as well, in our first ever collaboration)! I took a peek at some of the stories that are gonna be in it (and, well, we made a really awesome one to add to the pile) and I can assure you this will be a thoroughly badass collection, not to be missed if you're even remotely interested in this kind of stuff.

We should design some shirts you guys. I have free time in my future. The time might be ripe's what I'm saying.

This wouldn't be an ungood option, actually. I do know that they're trying to replace me already, but I seriously doubt they would be able to get someone with my cross-section of abilities for the money they want to pay in San Antonio. Still, they probably don't need me as much as I think they do. Just as far as to wrap up a couple of outstanding projects that I am most familiar with, and then they can finish turning the design shop for fine artisanal websites into a mill for humorless institutional Drupal clunkiness. I do think that the artistry I bring to the table is something they've been taking for granted. And I would like to try to sell that for a change. Surely there is a market for that.

If you click the MORE REPLY OPTIONS button in this thread, there is a melodramatic heading "Replying to Life" right above your textarea. It made me roflmao for some reason. I am on the verge of quitting with no backup plan and barely a few k in the bank + monthly debt payments. It seems kinda crazy, but I have all of these projects in mind and no time to make them and I am sick of waiting for a time when I will have time to do these things. But then, I don't know how quickly I can monetize any of these… but I don't want a full-time job. I want something that would keep me barely afloat (and take not much of my time) while I spend the lion's share on my own projects and also just kinda living and doing things and walking my dogs at 10 am on a beautiful tuesday morning. It shouldn't be too difficult for something as fancy as Hobo Lobo to generate a couple of semi-fancy ("affordable haute couture rate") freelance gigs a month, do you think? I was also thinking about offering creative/design/development consultancy services. I also have this other project that I could conceivably Kickstart and maybe live off of for a short while... Does this sound like something that would be impossible to pull off? Hobo Lobo style? At first I wanted to find another job and jump ship, but the more I draw it out, the more I realize I am sick of doing other people's bidding. But I might be getting myself into hot water because I have never done this sort of thing before and I don't know how good my professional network is. I would really have to get all of my shit together in a month or less before the money runs out… which would in turn be a bad time to start flailing and looking for a job… if only I had slightly fewer debts or slightly more money in the bank I would be so much more comfortable about this course of action.

I was not bemoaning the loss of materiel so much as the fact that there is such a thing as rent and its payment sometimes causes so much weird destruction.

NES and SNES are admirably well-emulated these days. Who cares? Still, sucks to be pawning things to pay rent.

That just takes it too far.

And then Leigh Alexander will cry some more. Someone should make a mod for Gone Home called "Game" which litters the house with guns, med kits and bad guys.

SPOILERS AAAAAA

Oh noes, no one is answering! I hope I didn't accidentally leak sensitive backer-only info.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that John Lithgow was somehow connected, did I dream that?

<blocks elmuerte, finally>

It is only novel because the industry is governed from above, by money—by money that by and large doesn't even understand or play games, but sure as fuck has a checklist of features that make a game. When fishing for a convenient metaphor I see Gone Home as more of a narrative installation art piece than a game (as defined by the Game Police et al). And that is a very exciting direction for games to go more boldly. These are hardly new and novel things to say, but we have such a spectacular medium for allowing an audience to experience a world and we generally see it used for hamfisted ends.

I've been told this book is a good resource. I find that it is easier for women to pull off lookin' stylin when fat than it is for dudes. All the large dude clothing is loose and formless, it's like wearing a tent. Having dispensed with 60 of my erstwhile lbs over the past year and some, I am confused as to why I didn't do so a couple of decades ago. I guess it took me a while to find a dispensation method I enjoyed. Turns out fasting is not only quite doable, but feels great.

¬¬ Nails are such prime real estate for wacky designs. Too bad only women, drag queens and Snoop Dog can get away with it.

In an act of general anti-establishment angst I wore nail polish to work today. Clear gloss middle fingers, and matte finish on all the rest of the nails. World's subtlest metrosexual punk right here. I need to get out of San Antonio. Anyone living in a cool city out there know of a company looking for someone with my amazingly varied skill set? I can art, design and code, LAMP, javascript, jQ, etc. I'm currently rocking the lofty title of Director of Development, but I am open to any kind of hands-on position that doesn't insult my abilities. It would be nice to work on larger internal projects for a length of time instead of relatively dinky client fare that describes my 6 years in this company. I need to properly put together a snazzy CV website dealio, but it's been hard freeing time to do so. Leads appreciated.

Oh man, so nice! <MELTS>.

Now, this is the proper tone of discourse for a thumbs thread. I too can relate this to being 20 and on the internet. I can likewise relate to Luftmensch, in both the cadence of his pedantry and the magnitude of his wrongheadedness on the topic thereof. Someone told me at the time to exercise humility. It took me forever to actually internalize this as an on-topic morsel of criticism.

Everything is flat, sharp as fuck, and uniformly busy at a micro scale. Looks like Skyrim with overly sharpened textures. There is no art direction, only a texture mill and a model farm and nothing in between. It is very much not like Dishonored in this way at all. Then again, the original Thief was ugly as sin, so who knows. I would've preferred something more inspired by decisions made by Mark of the Ninja. You know, something all-around more designed.

Oh sorry, did I just cheat? ¬¬