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Nobody Wants A Cybergod?

Marc Michalik · 2017-08-11T08:46:10

It's been about six months since I posted my blog now, and not a single person has said a single word too me about any of it. This doesn't seem possible, and yet it just happened. Apparently there is no level of experience, knowledge, or achievement that can compare to a few years at the Devry School of Game Design. Maybe I should sign up, sleep through all of the “classes” so as not to be corrupted by any of their bad elementary school-level of advice, and then try again! Even reaching the height of simulation design in the world today, the ultimate evolution of 70 years of continuous work by dozens if not hundreds of game designers, and finally arriving at the ultimate goal of simulation design, a simulation of time combined with reality which turns out to also be a functioning simulation of God and is the fundamental basis of “The Matrix”, cyberspace, an insubstantial holodeck, and eventually even a self-programming computer with omniscient communication (MeeSo Confused!!!), is completely irrelevant to modern “game designers”? The only explanation of this that I can think of is that you don't know enough about game design to recognize that Rube is literally the “Holy Grail” of simulation design. You don't know enough about simulation design to recognize how important this is. Rube is a “universal simulation”. The ultimate goal of scientific simulations, a uniform simulation of anything and everything! Rube can simulate anything and everything that exists in reality, or everything that exists in reality simultaneously. It is the long-sought after “Holy Grail” of scientific modeling. Forget about revolutionizing games, that's just what I would do with Rube. Rube is, quite possibly, the single most powerful tool of science in existence today. Rube is a God, and a God can do anything. Rube can even simulate things at the sub-atomic level! Rube is a functioning simulation of God, which you should all recognize as the Holy Grail of simulation design. But you clearly don't. You clearly don't know enough about game design to even know this. I can't think of any other explanation for nobody having a single word to say about it after six months of patiently waiting. There is nobody in your industry who knows enough about simulation design to understand what is being described too you, none of you have ever even heard of this before. Nothing else makes any sense. So far not a single person has said a single word too me about the PDU or Rube, other than to try and insult me for having discovered Rube. Not one word... the blog I put up is over 500 pages! Amazing, isn't it? I bet I could invent a warp drive and a phaser and nobody would care, other than wanting to insult me to discredit the idea because they can't understand it. That wouldn't be any different than this, it's just a different field. In fact, that would be my advice to anyone who does discover the fundamental basis of a warp drive and a phaser... save yourself a lot of time and effort and just immediately throw it in the trash! Nobody is going to care. Wow. In fact, the most common reaction is that people just become angry that you would dare to have done such a thing when they don't understand how it can be done. They don't have any questions for you, or even a single comment. Nobody will even even tell me what they think of the story, not a single peep at all. Just insults for you daring to know something that they are incapable of understanding. They just want to attack you for suggesting it, nobody has any interest at all in actually trying to find out anything about it. It just offends them. Rube is potentially much more important than a warp drive. It is a functioning simulation of the combination of time and reality where everything... everything... falls into place so perfectly that you can't help but wonder if this actually is the true nature of the universe and how time and reality really do function together... and nobody cares?!?!? “Moments of time containing reality!” If you do come up with a warp drive and phaser, just throw them in the trash. I'm serious. Believe me, that is how it will work out the best for you. Save yourself the trouble, all that work is just going to get you hatred and insults from arrogant people who are certain that if such a thing were possible they would have thought if it before you possibly could have... even though they have decades less experience with the subject than you do, and their entire process is based on the group that you came from. I think the English language is, at this point, in need of a word that means “more than arrogant” just to describe these people. This doesn't work like everyone thinks it does, if you do wind up discovering something that exceeds humanity's current understanding of something... just throw it away! Don't waste your time on it. Nobody is going care, although many people will be offended by it and attack you for claiming to have come up with something that they are not capable of understanding. The only thing you will get out of it is people attacking you to protect their own fragile little egos. Rube will apparently die with me because I don't have a hilariously laughable “degree” from the Devry School of Game Design, and even if I did that would just be the same thing as having a lottery ticket. Entirely random luck. I only know ten times more than that, and have been doing this for decades before their silly little “school” ever even existed... which just greatly angers them. It doesn't impress anyone, or get you anywhere, it just draws incompetent people who base their self-worth on the delusion that they are “experts” out of the woodwork to attack you so that they can continue with their delusions of grandeur. It's a psychological disorder, really, that they all seem to share. Whatever their criteria are in looking for “game designers”, experience, knowledge, and achievement are certainly not factors at all. I am undeniable proof of that. So if designing games is a goal of yours, don't waste any time on gaining experience, knowledge, or achieving anything significant in the field. None of those things count at all in their minds. Rube and I have finally managed to absolutely prove that beyond any doubt at all! Apparently it's kind of like a lottery. It's based entirely on pure luck that has nothing to do with anything relevant to game or simulation design, and Rube proves that beyond any doubt. Just buy a lottery ticket once and if you don't win move on to a new career. Don't waste your entire life like I did on, when it comes to simulation design anyway, this completely incompetent group of people. No matter what you do, no matter how much you achieve, no matter how much knowledge of the subject you accumulate, none of that will ever matter too them in any way, shape, or form. If the E=MC2 of simulation design isn't enough to get their attention, then obviously nothing is. They don't know enough about the subject to even realize what they are looking at. It doesn't do you any good to achieve something great in this field because they are incapable of recognizing it if you do. If it is more complicated than Axis & Allies then they are incapable of comprehending it. It really does appear to be essentially a random lottery, based on no actual criteria at all that is discernible. Rube and I have now proven that beyond any doubt what-so-ever. I was certain that this was going to work this time. I was certain that they could not be so incompetent that they would not recognize what Rube means too them. Obviously, even I had always vastly underestimated just how totally clueless and incompetent they actually are when it comes to game design... and that really is saying something! The source of the problem has become very clear too me now. It's that modern “game designers” believe that they invented game and simulation design in the early 1980's. They are absolutely convinced that game and simulation design did not exist until they invented it to make computer games. The don't know that modern game design actually began in the 16th century with the “Ruler & String” games played by real-world military men (see Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock for a modern example of a “Ruler & String” game, and a game that Rube could work wonders for). Their history begins in the early 1980's, when the actual history begins over 200 years before that. They don't even know, for example, that a simulation of God was the literal “holy grail” of scientific modeling (how science did simulations before computers), so they don't even recognize the significance of Rube. They literally don't know enough about game design to know this, so it is not relevant too them. And they are never going to know this, because they become enraged if anyone tries to tell them about it... and ban them for life from their forums for trying. That way they can maintain the delusion that they are the “world's leading experts in the field” when, in reality, they know almost nothing about game and simulation design. The fact that they have no interest at all in Rube, the literal holy grail of simulation design, finally proves this beyond any doubt at all. They are little kids playing in the sandbox at the edge of our field, they aren't even actually in the field! Maybe I should become a computer game industry critic. I'd love to hear a programmer-called-game designer explain how their computer science education qualifies them to pat people from Avalon Hill or ADB on the head as if we are children and speak too us as though we actually have something to learn from them. It is very much the other way around, obviously. Although, that probably isn't actually an option because I am pretty sure that none of their web sites would be willing to publish the opinions of someone who has been doing this since before they were even born. They don't take criticism very well and just silence anyone who tries to offer any... even after having asked their permission ahead of time to do exactly that! “Of course, go ahead, we can take a little criticism”... it then took them less than two weeks to ban Pirate Lord for life, because they resembled those remarks! I didn't just come out of the blue back then, I asked the moderators if it would be OK first before I did that! The complete lack of interest in Rube really says all that needs to be said about the modern game industry, and the world will lose this knowledge solely due to their extreme incompetence when it comes to game and simulation design. It certainly won't be for a lack of me trying. Anything more complex than Axis & Allies/Civilization is simply beyond their ability to comprehend, and the suggestion of the existence of anything more complex than Axis & Allies/Civilization just enrages them. So, this really is for real, then? My entire life was wasted because none of you actually know what you are talking about? I should just take the fundamental basis of The Matrix, cyberspace, a holodeck, and a self-programming computer with omniscient communication and throw it in the trash? That is really, actually the response of the one industry that should care about Rube? “Nobody cares, throw it away?” You really and truly are this incompetent? I really would like a serious answer (insulting me to protect your own ego is not a serious answer) too this. I'd really like to know why my entire life was wasted, and why I should just throw it all away even though it is the Holy Grail of simulation design and would be among the most important tools of science known to mankind. I really would like a real answer. This is for real, then, nobody cares about the final answer and Holy Grail of simulation design, and I should just throw it away? This really is the response of the modern game industry to what is the “Holy Grail” of your own field? I just want to be clear on this before I throw the fundamental basis of what would be among the most futuristic technologies on this planet in the trash and forget about it all.

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Started by Kavik Kang August 05, 2017 04:31 PM

81 comments, last by Kylotan 6 years, 11 months ago

TheComet

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August 08, 2017 05:48 AM

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It's not that I am “worried someone will steal my idea”, or care about money. Rube is how I make games. It's my style, the thing that makes my games so uniquely different than everyone elses. Since it is very unlikely I will ever actually get to make one of my computer games, I'm certainly not going to reveal exactly what my style of making games is and then watch people start making games in what really is my unique style of doing it. That's what Rube is, in a way, just my unique way of making games that results in unique games

So you are worried someone will steal your idea.

"I would try to find halo source code by bungie best fps engine ever created, u see why call of duty loses speed due to its detail." -- GettingNifty

mikeman

3,017

August 08, 2017 08:42 AM

>>What do I have to do to finally be seen as at least the equal of someone with almost no experience, and even less knowledge?

Build a portfolio, apply for jobs and go to interviews, like all the rest of the people do.

Btw, I again remind you that, when you were talking about your sports mod and how good you are at designing those kind of games, I offered you my services as a programmer in order to make a prototype together(I was interested in making a sports game myself back then). Sure, we weren't going to make an AAA sports game, but we would have an awesome(if your word was true) playable prototype that we both could showcase. You declined, because your grand designs can only be made with multi-million teams and anything else is beneath you. So I went on my way, worked on my indie game, now have a job at EA DICE. Not as a designer, as a programmer, but I work with designers every day, making the tools they use to make AAA multi-million games. See, you *could* have a connection there today, but you don't accept anything less than people bowing down to you and handing you 100 million.

So there's that too.

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Kylotan

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August 08, 2017 08:45 AM

4 hours ago, Kavik Kang said:

Kylo: I had thought my point would be obvious when I said that. My point was that I am a lot closer to that than any 20-something recent graduate of the Devry School of Game Design. Rube doesn't qualify me as a game designer in your eyes, 40 years of experience doesn't either, but you'll hire a 22-year-old in a heartbeat. It's just plain insulting. Do you hear me saying I that expect Rube to make me wealthy? Or trying to start my own company? I just want to make games. I would think that 40 years of experience would be enough all by itself, but no. I was certain Rube would be enough... but no. If I was 22 and went to the Devry School of Game Design, then it wouldn't be a problem? What do I have to do to finally be seen as at least the equal of someone with almost no experience, and even less knowledge? Your industry is like the twilight zone from my perspective. It really is.

I said I was done, but since you're addressing me directly, I'll do you the courtesy of responding.

"Rube doesn't qualify me as a game designer in your eyes". Correct. Because it's not a game, it's a long series of vague blog posts. There may be other things you've made which qualify you as a game designer, but I've not seen them.

"40 years of experience doesn't either" Experience of what? And for what? 40 years of board game design experience, if you have it, is useful, but it wouldn't qualify you to come to my company and tell us what game to start making. That's not how the process works. It might qualify you to come in at mid-level providing you were able to show some capability with digital design tools, and a willingness to engage with our existing processes.

"you'll hire a 22-year-old in a heartbeat". If they have relevant skills for the role we need, sure. They, too, would not be coming in to the company telling us what game to make. They'd probably be given a copy of the Unreal Engine and asked to start blocking out greybox levels for whatever game we're already working on, or asked to tweak vehicle handling parameters, or told to design some low-level kill-10-rat style quests.

"I just want to make games." So make them. Unity. Unreal. GameMaker. Stencyl. Godot. There are tons of cheap or free tools out there and you can get started today.

"What do I have to do to finally be seen as at least the equal of someone with almost no experience, and even less knowledge?" You have to do the same that anyone else would have to do - make something to prove your capabilities. Nobody hires on the basis of blog posts or repeated insistence. The burden of proof is on you. You also have to learn to communicate better and to be more of a team player. Nobody hires someone who comes to them and says, "your industry is full of idiots who don't understand that I am the top person in this field". Who'd want to work with someone that sounds so arrogant? If you truly are at the top of your field, you wouldn't need to state it; it would be obvious from your work.

MaulingMonkey

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August 08, 2017 09:21 AM

On 8/5/2017 at 9:31 AM, Kavik Kang said:

Maybe I should sign up, sleep through all of the “classes” so as not to be corrupted by any of their bad elementary school-level of advice, and then try again!

This will just cause you to fail the class, which you will blame on the teachers, school, and classmates instead of your behavior. Don't bother.

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The only explanation of this that I can think of is that you don't know enough about game design to recognize that Rube is literally the “Holy Grail” of simulation design.

You share so little of the actual fundamentals of your ideas that it's impossible for us to evaluate them. You share so much tangential ramblings as to bury what little you have shared. Of course nobody can sanely evaluate that the ideas of Rube is anything worth their time. At best they might try to extrapolate from the metaramblings about and around the ideas of Rube.

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the blog I put up is over 500 pages! Amazing, isn't it?

"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."

Between this and your attitude, you're a poor communicator here, either by choice, skill, or both. You manage to gain a little attention with it, but largely the negative kind - little proper interest. I'm baffled by your supposed board game bonafides - isn't this the antithesis of a good rule set? Short and concise where possible makes things easier to pick up and quicker to play. Complexity must earn it's keep in fun or interest, or be cut.

On the pen and paper side - sure, my library has thousands of pages of GURPS books alone - covering lore, worldbuilding, settings, mechanics, etcetera. But these are meticulously organized, divided into books, cross referenced, and edited down to their essential contents, organized into compelling themes, indexed, summarized. None of them ramble on about the affronts of the publishing industry against them, unless we somehow count the secret service raid on Steve Jackson Games way back when over the GURPS Cyberpunk series - ironically topical to the contents of the book. And GURPS Lite is enough to get you started, at 32 pages. For an entire game. The other thousands of pages in my library? Optional extra fluff to keep things going once you've already started. By stark contrast, in the decade since you've started posting here, you've started to... more consistently use paragraphs. Which, don't get me wrong, I appreciate, but isn't quite enough.

It's frustrating to see you squandering your potential like this. Here we are, getting to make games, enjoying the creative process, seeing our creations come to fruition. There you are, blinded by ideas that shine more brilliant than the sun in your eyes, struggling to execute on them or get others to, trapped by your own nature, your own behavior, unable to see the way forward, only able to see your ideas, labeling large chunks of your life a "waste" a decade later:

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Don't waste your entire life like I did on, when it comes to simulation design anyway, this completely incompetent group of people.

You're clearly frustrated too. That sucks. Nearly everything has already been said by those better than I at communicating the way forward, however. No sense generating another 500 pages retreading where we've been.

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So, this really is for real, then? My entire life was wasted because none of you actually know what you are talking about?

Close - none of us actually know what you are talking about (and even if we did, it'd be no guarantee of our interest.) Learn to communicate your ideas to mere mortals, build your ideas using mere mortal means, pivot to something that will use your ideas in different mere mortal ways, or accept that your ideas are in fact a waste. Fool's gold blinding you from action and building things. Take some goddamn responsibility for your own life and what you can do with it instead of blaming some strangers on the internet for their lack of having done things with it for you. If your entire life is wasted, that is because of you.

If you pivot - maybe fiction. Nanowrimo? You clearly like to write. You have imagination, and love metaphor to the point of it being a problem in design and technical discussions. You love language charged with your own meanings and vocabulary - again, problematic, when the rest of us being on a completely different wavelength where your terms already had very different definitions at times. Science fantasy can get away with not making technical sense to the reader, although plot and narrative structure will be important things to learn. You may end up screaming bloody murder when an editor gets their hands on your work. Learn to accept this when they are perhaps "ruining" your work.

If you don't pivot or abandon your ideas, you must learn to communicate on design and technical topics better. The most genius and experienced among us will go entirely to waste if they cannot communicate. And are they truly genius if they cannot learn this? And even a fool can be a valuable member of a team if they can communicate.

My apologies for not taking the time to make this shorter. And good luck. I mean it.

Gian-Reto

7,096

August 08, 2017 02:57 PM

On 5.8.2017 at 8:27 PM, Kavik Kang said:

No, I am not going to give Rube away and watch you all make games based on my work while I am still not making games.

Well then, start making games. There is nothing stopping you besides yourself. Sure, you will have to learn to code and create art, or find people willing to work with you, but as a programmer who spent years learning to create art, and having seen you spend years trying to sell your expierience to others trying to ... achieve some vague goal of "breaking into the industry"... really, in all honesty, in the time you spent writing all those pages of text seemingly just teasing people (haven't read everything honestly), you would have picked up enough programming and art skills to start working on your game, or whatever you want to achieve, and most probably already churned out a prototype.

You want people to believe in your hyperbole? Ever heard the term "show, don't tell"? Applies here too. Create a prototype. Let me see your simulation skills in action. You can hide the technical details, or only use as much of your model as you can afford to get "decompiled" and re-engineered by others... but you have to put out an example that shows people how valuable whatever you are speaking about is.

And no, you don't need millions of $ or a large team for that. If you have the time to write 500 pages of Textwalls, you can create a rather substantial prototype that should be enough to show your concepts/models worth. Hell, in the years you spent here on GD.net occasionally ranting about this, you might have already created a rather substantial Indie game, even as a one man show.

Kavik Kang

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August 08, 2017 04:41 PM

Hodgman. I do know what you've been doing. I've been playing and studying your games since the day your industry began. I've been here all along. Deadlock is a perfect example, it's at least 30 years behind us. It's primitive, a first baby step in the direction of where we already are. Everything you've said applies perfectly the other way around, though. You don't know our work. You don't know the things that we know, that are based on a much longer history of making much more detailed and accurate games than your industry ever has. I am keeping very little “secret”. I've explained most of it already, you just don't have a frame of reference to understand it. You are stuck thinking in terms of “phases”, so you can't see the significance of what is sitting right in front of you. Exactly as you said too me, you aren't qualified to tell us what we do and don't know. You couldn't have it more backwards. Which group has been doing this for 70 years, and which has been doing it for 30? You really do have everything you said exactly backwards, everything you said applies perfectly if you just turn it around. And, I posted over 500 pages specifically because you people have always said “show us something. I did. Over 500 pages worth. Nobody has even bothered to read it, and now you act as though it doesn't exist. I just spent a year putting together a 500 page presentation to show you, what more do you want? I'm not giving away my unique style and then spending the rest of my life watching you people make games my way while still insisting that I am a talentless fool. I'm just not going to end my life watching everyone else do things my way while I am still ignored. I have shown more than enough on my blog that any competent person should be able too see that I know what I am doing. People in your industry just don't know a game designer when they see one, not even when that game designer has been doing this for longer than your industry has even existed. I don't see how you can describe me spending a year, non-stop, to create a 500 page presentation as being “lazy and not willing to show you anything”. Armageddon Chess is even a PLAYABLE GAME made under the production restrictions of “make a game you can send someone as an e-mail”. What more do you want?

Kylo: I am not a programmer. If I could make a game with the Unreal engine myself I would have done that a long time ago. As for everything else you said, you are just proving my point. You aren't capable of recognizing a game designer when you see one. And confirming that you actually consider some 22-year-old as qualified, but not a member of the SFB Staff (literal one of your “founding fathers”), is simply admitting to your incompetence.

All of this criticism that I won't show you anything is nothing new, and is the reason I created my blog here. That's why I did the blog, to do exactly this. Nobody will read it. I did this, it's there right now including a complete playable game. What you are asking for is there right now. You wanted to see something, I gave you 500 pages... you won't read it and yet still demand I show you something? I don't even know what to say.

I guess I'll just sit in a corner and wait to die. I don't have anything else to do. I was born to do one thing, obsessively. I wasted my entire life on it not realizing just how clueless and incompetent the one industry I would need to be hired by is. I won't be alive for more than another 10 years or so, and would just like for my entire life to not have been a complete waste. To just make one of my games. But that isn't going to happen, because your industry is too incompetent to recognize a natural born savant simulation designer when you see one. You think a 20-year-old is qualified and someone who has been designing games since before your industry even existed is not. What more needs to be said? That really says it all by itself. It's just incompetence, and you are even willing to defend that ridiculous notion, which is mind-blowing. I can't believe you will even look for ways to try and defend it. You truly are a hopeless group of the most arrogant people that the world has ever known.

I'll just go sit in a corner and wait to die. There is nothing else in this world for me to do. I only do one thing, and the people who control that one thing are too arrogant for me to ever get to do it. You should probably stop trying to make games with space ships in them, you severely embarrass yourselves every time you do. I can't believe you actually defend the notion of a 20-year-old being qualified while someone with 40 years of experience, and former member of the SFB Staff is not. That is just admitting your incompetence, and yes, I know you don't realize that. But it is.

"I wish that I could live it all again."

Gian-Reto

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August 08, 2017 04:57 PM

2 minutes ago, Kavik Kang said:

I gave you 500 pages

How about 5 that clearly illustrate your point? Maybe with Illustrations instead of just text, even?

I understand that you are frustrated that people just can't seem to grasp the genius of your idea, but if nobody gets it, maybe the problem doesn't lie with the other people. In the end, the world has not been waiting on your awesome ideas, unless you show them how awesome they are. Seems at least here in the forum, you haven't achieved that.

I think many have told you this before, but here I go again: while ageism might be rampant in this industry, this certainly is not a problem with ageism. I don't know what you expierienced in this industry outside of what I have seen here on GD.net, but if you have been trying to get people interested in your product and your skills the same way you did on this page, your age is the least of your problem. Hell, I cannot even say if your actual skill or product is... they might be as ingenius as you make them out to be. And that is the big problem right there... bad communication.

You might have flashy elevator pitches... but they sound extremly out there and hard to believe.

You lack any kind of proof that can be presented to management or anyone without the time to read a full PhD work.

And it seems even the "full work" you intended to use to sell your product is not going enough into the nitty gritty detail on WHY your work should live up to the elevator pitch that even the few people bothering to read all the text come out puzzled by it at the end, not interested.

You are overselling yourself and underdelivering, all the while being way to afraid of plagiarism when you should be rather afraid that your claims sound hyperbolic without proof, proof that would mean you have to let goof some of the secrets you claim to hold.

Just because the fortune teller tells you he knows exactly what your future holds, you will not believe him without any proof, right?

TheComet

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August 08, 2017 05:32 PM

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I wasted my entire life on it not realizing just how clueless and incompetent the one industry I would need to be hired by is.

Why do you do this?

You seem to think "the industry" is somehow "us" (wat?) and that "you" are special because you aren't part of "us".... Or some shit. The industry isn't this elite private club that snoots at the uninitiated.

Kid, the reason you aren't getting hired by "the industry" is because you have no useful skills. You have

no programming experience
no game design experience
trouble communicating ideas in the English language (do you even read what you type? Every paragraph can be summarised into a single sentence with no loss of information).
a stuck up attitude about how you are better than everyone else

If you had any value at all, you would easily find a job in "the industry".

"I would try to find halo source code by bungie best fps engine ever created, u see why call of duty loses speed due to its detail." -- GettingNifty

jbadams

26,386

August 08, 2017 10:52 PM

6 hours ago, Kavik Kang said:

Armageddon Chess is even a PLAYABLE GAME made under the production restrictions of “make a game you can send someone as an e-mail”.

Ok, so I didn't really want to engage with this, as I feel it's likely to be a waste of time... My prediction is that you're just going to dismiss the following as us not having the frame of reference to understand your brilliance or something, but here goes... I played Armageddon Chess.

I was curious when you published something that actually looked like a playable game, so I arranged to take it to our local gaming store, and a group of 7 of us made up 3 sets and gave it a few tries. All are avid tabletop and board game players. Four like video games as well, three almost never touch them. Two have actually tried SFB, although admittedly one wasn't a fan and only ever tried one introductory game.

It's actually playable, and the rules weren't too badly described, although as we were making our sets before play and piecing it together as we go it was a bit cumbersome to figure out.

Not one of us enjoyed it. You took the elegance of chess and added tedious combat rules and book keeping, and the we justc didn't find it fun.

You shared a massive "design document" for Pirate Dawn" 10 years ago, and several people here actually tried to read it, but it was an unstructured and disorganosed typo-riddled mess; unfortunately you wouldn't accept that that was your problem, declaring that 'our industry just don't understand proper detailed design documents'.

You actually have one video game design credit for Sinistar Unleashed. It wasn't received very well, and the reviews I can find almost universally claim that it was aesthetically beautiful but that the gameplay was terrible.

Apparently you worked on a football mod that was popular, but noone remembers it, and in all my searching all I can find about it other than an old discussion here where you claim it was great (noone else remembered it then either) is two dead links

You keep talking about being in the SFB staff, but according to your own earlier posts you didn't actually design the game, you were just an avid core player with a deep understanding of the rules who was asked to contribute to the strategy manual. That doesn't have no value, but nor is it particularly compelling design experience.

Your writing is verbose, poorly structured, and seems to talk around a point you never actually make. It's filled with boasting about your design and old table top games and scorn for 'the industry' but startlingly devoid of actual meaning, although you claim that's because we just couldn't possibly have a frame of reference to understand it.

So no, you simply haven't actually done anything to demonstrate your supposedly amazing skills.

- Jason Astle-Adams

jbadams

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August 08, 2017 11:21 PM

Oh, and I'm happy to give more detailed feedback if you'd like to improve Armageddon Chess by the way, but I seem to recall you insisting that iterative design is a primitive crutch our industry uses because we don't have the skills to design the correct numbers and formulas up front.

- Jason Astle-Adams

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