When Game Development Stinks

Re:When Game Development Stinks by greggman on Friday March 22, 2013 @07:58PM (#5426577)

I'm a little sympathetic but ....

* Making games is like making music, movies, books, etc. in that the odds of you having a hit are very small. Thousands of people try, few are successful.

* I've seen a several articles about games here on HN that have been about "me to" games. Clones of clones of clones. The authors want us to pat them on the back for making a ripoff? Sorry. Make something original.

Personal opinion but Ultratron does not look even as good as the game it's supposedly cloning, Robotron 2084, which has way more "visual lollipop of swirling color that leaves your eyes sparkling and pixelated for hours". Compare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZZRjdfh4_4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7HkaqmSCxw

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Re:When Game Development Stinks by princec on Friday March 22, 2013 @08:05PM (#5426611)

Er, I think you meant to compare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6gmgExmJbM

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Re:When Game Development Stinks by greggman on Friday March 22, 2013 @10:35PM (#5427035)

I'm not sure what you're trying to show me. Robotron has 8x more stuff going on in any shot.

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Re:When Game Development Stinks by princec on Saturday March 23, 2013 @06:11AM (#5427708)

That does not make Robotron good.

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Re:When Game Development Stinks by greggman on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:06PM (#5482092)

No, but it does make Robotron far more of "a visual lollipop of swirling color that leaves your eyes sparkling and pixelated for hours" than the clone

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