shasta games?!
― mo loko (cozen), Thursday, 2 December 2010 08:51 (thirteen years ago) link
OT (only on iphone these days dawgggggg
i grabbed Driver yesterday, that was legendary on my ps1, along with GT1 and HotShots1)
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 2 December 2010 09:04 (thirteen years ago) link
if u have any doubt make an animal action game
i dunno, i'm '9 years in' and i've had like 8 hall-of-famers, this game is kinda easy no?
how do i get a hardware engineer?
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Thursday, 2 December 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
you fuckers are making me want an ipad now
― old LOKO heads (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 December 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
as soon as you get the first hall of fame game you pretty much have to try to fuck up. hardware engineer gets unlocked as when you have one employee who's levelled up in all the regular jobs... which i think is dumb. I guess being able to compose a top-notch soundtrack for a golf game on Game Gear wouldn't hurt as a console developer but it's hard to see it being necessary
― antexit, Thursday, 2 December 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
wait, you have to level them up, then switch them to the other jobs, then level them up again?
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Thursday, 2 December 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i just keep firing dudes and hiring fancy new ones
that sounds like classic shortsighted management strategy! a common mistake companies make who get early success and a cash infusion!
― antexit, Thursday, 2 December 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
how exactly do you market a poncho game is the real mystery of this game
Poncho lovers go for Action RPGs. Herpes Enclave worked on this a little, but decided not to pursue the Poncho Action RPG past a single research title: Poncho only has a 'C' popularity rating, HE is built on the Pubic Stroker cutie simulator franchise and Violated Fox virtual pet online sims.
Thx ilx. hate this game. 4am last night. But I think yeah I'll be bored of it by this evening.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 2 December 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, but imo it's prob best to do it with the fancy sorts you get later – they're often a little closer to the goal thanks to filled out job histories, and they'll end up with mad stats as they get levelled. (Though Mr X, who doesn't look that impressive, is apparently a common choice for Hardware Engineer training.)
I don't really get it, though. If I've got say a L.5 designer with 246 graphic skill, and a L.3 hacker with 260 (+ he/she used to be a L.5 designer), is it better to set the designer or the hacker on the post-alpha character design, ie do job titles matter or is it just stats?
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 2 December 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
because you see, mark, it's easy to throw money at your staff pool and stack your workforce with a lot of young hotshots, but where does that get you? You've got a staff of young hotshots all earning top dollar with no dynamic between them, on salary so you're paying them for their off days rather than just contracting them in--all of whom are used to calling the shots creatively because they're accustomed to the deference that comes with being the best in their field! how do you expect to manage those people effectively as a team?
Now if you take a loyal workforce and train them up to that level, you get to where you want to be professionally a little slower, but when you get there you know how to work together!
i predict one shiny overdesigned gears of war type of game that wows everyone for a second and then nothing but a big fizzle and a bunch of overpaid whizkids draining your working capital dry.
― antexit, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
not playing this but u guys are killing me w/the lols on this thread so thx
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
ok guys, i haven't looked at this since i played through it once a few weeks ago but you're making me want to play again and livepost all of our companies updates
― Mordy, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i just booted it up and founded Bloody Stool Studios and then immediately upon zeroeing in and aiming for one of the tiny little buttons to start hiring it jut seemed like a huge drag
― antexit, Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
livepost all of our companies updates
ILXors who don't own iPhones could just post scatological studio/game names?
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Just what we needed on ilx, a place you can go to spout vulgar nonsequiturs!
― antexit, Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Hot Carl XTreme
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
That sounds fun! What popped into my mind was a 16-bit bobsled kart racer
― antexit, Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought more like a crappy mid 90's snowboarding sim.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 2 December 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Did a sequel to my poncho action RPG after all. Skiddy Wool2 won game of the year! Architecture online sim Built of Shit was a succes d'estime, now back to $$$ cutie simulation w/ Penis Liaison2.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Thursday, 2 December 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Skiddy Wool sounds more like a longjohns simulator
― antexit, Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Orrite your tips have convinced me to try again. Started from scratch with Perineophiliac Studios.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Nope. Up Hilary Duff didn't make enough money, HI DERE was pulled off the market before I was ready to stop selling it, and now I have an Exodus licence and no cash to develop a game for it. Baleeted.
― Interests: eating my cookie (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Now that's more like it!!
Top Sellers:Greek Ladyboy 4: 24.48 million unitsCow Farts 2: 16 millionArtery Ninja 2: 16 millionBooty Quest: 14.7 millionFlyin' Dragboy 2: 13.7 million
Codeo Labs' "Coccyx" is a revolutionary 64-bit BD-ROM.
Codeo has 27 hall of fame games and a 18% market share. 180 million units total
― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Friday, 3 December 2010 09:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert talks about Game Dev Story
― zappi, Friday, 3 December 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
"And of course, it's unrealistic to think that a company would release a game without fixing all of its bugs," Gilbert added. "That would never happen." har har Doesn't FALLOUT: NEW VEGAS deserve its own thread? har
― old LOKO heads (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 December 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
this game plateaus so hard. once you do okay once, it's easy peasy street and there's nothing new for you to do or new challenges to face. kinda lame.
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I am definitely finished with it but I still enjoyed the journey.
― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, for a game that cost about as much as a pint of beer, I got my money's worth.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
me too, i just wish it went somewhere and got different u know?
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
otm about the plateuing, the only replay valu I got was I realised I'd been doing it rong a lot the first go-round so when I hit 20 years I started again (you bring over your levelled up genres) and this time round it is a lot easier.
― manic pixie dream girl phenomenon (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Still, it idles time at the train station and whatnot.
dont miss your train!!
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I hear rumours about NEW SECRET CONSOLES if you play past 50 or 75 years or something, is it true?
― JimD, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 05:01 (thirteen years ago) link
If nothing else, I am looking for whatever next Kairosoft put out. Also, I really dig the 16-bit pixel art design.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 07:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Dunno about secret consoles, but you get extra console design options if you have 4 Hardware Engs in your team (and another with 6). And there are a few hidden characters - Kairobot joined Herpes Enclave for the home stretch (still had to go through his agent & pay him to appear at GameDex, swiz).
everyone otm about plateauing - there's no risk after one or two hall-of-famers. There's stuff to do - 40/40, a 60+ million seller, levelling characters, multiple game of the years - but you likely won't go out of business.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
yassssssssshttp://www.appbrain.com/app/game-dev-story/net.kairosoft.android.gamedev3en
― smoke on this^ one (cozen), Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
lol android
― tickle me imo (s1ocki), Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
:( truth bomb
― smoke on this^ one (cozen), Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
just don't think the public were ready for sexy golf 2
― cozen, Monday, 13 December 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
cunt puncher studios resumé to date
quim story 35,335quim-to-mania 55,724finger fantasy 118,945killathon 95,240 (innovative "marathon"/shooter crossover again not sure the public were ready for my vision)sexy golf 69,308sexy golf 2 50,998
― cozen, Monday, 13 December 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm always excited when a new quim game is released.
― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Monday, 13 December 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
if you're as entertained as I am by giving profane, offensive, obscene or ridiculous titles to mundane objects, it's a godsend. this is basically a little bit of game holding a mechanic together which allows me to make myself laugh with my tourettey jokes- without alienating my loved ones by telling them something objectively unfunny that i can't get out from laughter
Yes - this thing functions as like a surrogate girlfriend to me, in that it provides a means for me to make unacceptably shit, offensive jokes without needing to have a "woman" there that I'm all "in a comfort zone" with to the point where I have "no filter".
I paid $800k getting a renowned children's artist in to devise an art style for my romance simulator. I then titled it "Shrub Rapist". It shifted 4.9 million units. This game is Japanese, right?
The 14 character limit is kind of a drag though, if there was a bigger limit you could get cracking mileage out of making up lots of pretentious modern game names with colons in them, instead of not even being able to fit the "2" in when you make a cash-in straight-to-DS shovelware sequel.
― Sgt's Laughter (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 13 December 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't mean to imply here that I've been playing this for longer than a day, or that I will still be playing it on Wednesday.
― Sgt's Laughter (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 13 December 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
of sexy golf 2, the critics remarked "cash-in straight-to-DS shovelware sequel"
― cozen, Monday, 13 December 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I wonder if some generous spirited Brit tinkerer could pull this apart and edit it so that the Famitsu Death Panel is replaced by injoke spouting 80s Spectrum/C64 magazine subhumans? It'd be kind of apposite; I kept getting grandiose visions of the games I was spending thousands on, then realising that I was putting them out on the game's euphemised equivalent of the c.1987 Brick Gameboy.
While they were at it, they could also add "impenetrable text-based football management", "shit naked poker" and "politically incorrect Native American rape simulator" to the available genres.
Just thinking aloud. In text.
― Sgt's Laughter (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 13 December 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe save the rape jokes for the game?
― tickle me imo (s1ocki), Monday, 13 December 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, that was an oblique, disapproving reference to Custer's Revenge. It was a different time.
― Sgt's Laughter (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 13 December 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Custer's Revenge is really something.
― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Monday, 13 December 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
sexy golf 3 feat. lake balls
― cozen, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link