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Look, maybe I just need a compass heading out of here. Maybe you can help me out.
I am a chimerical little shit, I look at a game and see all the things it could be if the designers were less lazy about bugs or more genre-conscious or as pretentious as I sound right now, but also ambitious. But for fucking sure I'd like somewhere to go with a merciless approach not unlike that of caltrops to tear into these games and consider what they do right or wrong.
Modding isn't something this site seems to focus on a whole lot because most mods are superficial or overwrought, but it's getting easier and easier to do as independent developers and small studios release 4x games. Some of them even give their community carte blanche to fuck with the executables, for christ's sake - probably an awful idea for safety but whatever, if you download the mod you're already at risk. Art and rendering software is something a guy with even a cheaper home machine can get off the ground. There's voicework available for free that isn't total shit if you spend the time to find decent sources of it.
If someone had the information together in one place, collated the thousand pitfalls these games seem to run afoul of in terms of not being an annoying piece of shit, and then strung together the useful advice people could give them about design decisions, there'd be no time like the present for making something that the market would probably never make and having it turn out like Caves of Qud instead of Dwarf Fortress with its shitty leech of a creator.
Seems like Caltrops would be the place to find that kind of thought, but as far as I know all of one of you make games and ICJ isn't coding up OpenCiv or whatever that freeware 4x was called. So if that place isn't here, give me a link and I'll take the conversation over there to spare you the burden of talking about StarDrive. |
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Pinback trolls hard with review of failed spiritual successor for Alpha Centauri by insomniac newbie 01/03/2014, 1:34am PST 
Please don't stop posting, the drones need you. They look up to you. NT by A friend 01/03/2014, 6:12am PST
Pinback trolls hard with review of failed spiritual successor for Alpha Centauri by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/03/2014, 9:26pm PST
He'll.be.back. NT by WITTGENSTEIN 01/03/2014, 9:42pm PST
Re: Pinback trolls hard with review of failed spiritual successor for Alpha Cent by fucking newbie 01/05/2014, 3:35pm PST
What? Where did you get that impression? by WITTGENSTEIN 01/06/2014, 4:31pm PST
Like Shogun 2? NT by fucking newbie 01/06/2014, 5:11pm PST
Shogun 2's not a 4X, junior. NT by OH HO SIDESTEPPED YOUR LOGIC TRAP 01/06/2014, 6:52pm PST
It seems as close to them as you want to get, DAD by fucking newbie 01/06/2014, 7:06pm PST
Psst, Fortinbras = WITTGENSTEIN NT by Caltrops Historian 01/06/2014, 7:50pm PST
Good, now I can mock him directly. NT by bored newbie 01/06/2014, 8:14pm PST
There hasn't been a really good 4x in a few years. by WITTGENSTEIN 01/06/2014, 8:38pm PST
This is why I want to identify the one or two things a game will occasionally by get right and enumerate the flaws. 01/06/2014, 8:57pm PST
You take that slick convo right here and nowhere else NT by Caltrops.Com 01/06/2014, 11:15pm PST
what, no lecture about not being a wannabe failed romero? NT by surprised newbie 01/06/2014, 11:23pm PST
Well, I agree with some of that. by pinback 01/09/2014, 2:47pm PST
I should've just talked about the game rather than calling you out like a drama by queen - stupid newbie 01/10/2014, 7:00pm PST
I really have no argument for any of this. by pinback 01/10/2014, 10:06pm PST
If that's really how you feel, I'll just take a minute here to tell you to buck by up - stupid newbie 01/10/2014, 11:21pm PST
And thanks for the compliment. by stupid newbie 01/10/2014, 11:23pm PST
pinback will be nice to anyone who fellates his ego, so thanks for that. NT by We don't want him to come back here 01/11/2014, 12:59pm PST
FAGGOTS don't want smart guys around, true NT by You FAGGOTS 01/11/2014, 1:43pm PST
Thanks for proving our point, pinback NT by We don't want him to come back here 01/11/2014, 3:20pm PST
I didn't post that. NT by pinback 01/11/2014, 4:59pm PST
You brought this on yourselves, Caltrops. by stupid newbie 01/11/2014, 5:27pm PST
Hm, I wonder why someone might have been fooled by an angry Pinback ATOR NT by It is a mystery. 01/11/2014, 6:10pm PST
I assumed it was him. Caltrops & Pinback: PRETTIEST PRINCESSES. Dance-off up nex by stupid newbie 01/11/2014, 9:14pm PST
At least he's not posting gifs of spinning dicks or anything. NT by Caltrops Historian 01/11/2014, 11:11pm PST
Gotta miss trading on the Zseni-Cable Cock Exchange now that boner futures are by down :( - stupid newbie 01/11/2014, 11:23pm PST
I'LL BUY THEM AT ANY PRICE. HOMPTH HURMPTH SLURP BLUGH NT by JERKCITY 01/12/2014, 12:13am PST
Was Pinback also Flack? I get confused. NT by FoK 01/11/2014, 6:38pm PST
You're welcome, dad. Is that whining I hear, or are you just aging gracelessly? by stupid newbie 01/11/2014, 1:46pm PST
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