Reality show: build your own MMO!

Malekyth · Jun 2006

http://www.games.net/video/player.cfm?vId=100740

I'm very interested in seeing where this goes. I imagine a lot of Polycounters will see themselves in this dude's quest to do the utterly impossible in the face of good sense, logic and mounds and mounds of precedent! Many of us have been there. Some of us are there right now ...

ElysiumGX · Jun 2006

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

seriously, an MMO can be made. there are engines and tools to do it. but to make one a success, even more so than WoW.

HAHAHA!!!

Spoon_of_death · Jun 2006

You know when I sometimes see the art being pimped here that serves no purpose I often think 'what if....'. What if polycount teamed up with some game programming forum/board?

ElysiumGX · Jun 2006

It's just not that easy. The only easy part is dreaming. These guys are setting their goals much too high.

I was hoping for Joust3D. Even if only one level and 2 players.

Spoon_of_death · Jun 2006

true true! But often you see these little freeware games with some great gameplay, but the graphics really SUCK! While there are people here that make 3d art for their hobbies and would love to see their work being put to work.

doc rob · Jun 2006

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true true! But often you see these little freeware games with some great gameplay, but the graphics really SUCK!

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like what?

Joao Sapiro · Jun 2006

openarena lol, fun as hell but sucky graphics ehehe , its a game i have installed for ages dont remebmer where i got it thou..oh well...

CheapAlert · Jun 2006

i tried

Matabus · Jun 2006

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openarena lol, fun as hell but sucky graphics ehehe

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Unintentional ZING!

CheapAlert · Jun 2006

WATCH YOUR BACK MATABUS BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE 'SUCKY GRAPHICS' ARE CHRIS HOLDENS !!!!

cholden · Jun 2006

don't drag me into this!

I did a saturday of work for that, and johnny quit trollin.

aesir · Jun 2006

so... is this guy really rich or something?

Sean McBride · Jun 2006

so THATS where john went. hehehe. He accualy applied to work at the company i'm working for now. :O

xotherllox · Jun 2006

I just watched the video and the date they're saying is Wednesday june 14th. Apparently they're airing Fridays but the first show is releasing early.

Whargoul · Jun 2006

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I was hoping for Joust3D. Even if only one level and 2 players.

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<sniff> me too...

oXYnary · Jun 2006

The problem with reality shows is they arent really reality. Its like that saying in the observation itself that things change. Meaning this kid has a much greater chance of being picked up simply because of the PR of the show. Which other hopefuls watching will forget.

Malekyth · Jun 2006

http://games.net/video/player.cfm?vId=100840

Hey, it's episode two of one boy's quest to Beat Them! Then to reiterate that he's gonna Beat Them, then to look into a big fuckin' space before he's got funding, then to be outraged that some established developer arrived at a similar pedestrian idea to his own in parallel, then to doubtless do other things that should make any recovering mod-kid-with-stars-in-his-eyes cringe in reflection.

Quote from the young genius, concerning his peerless concept:

"No one's ever even tooken the risk."

I'd follow this boy into Hell.

killingpeople · Jun 2006

you can do it!

arshlevon · Jun 2006

i think its possible, but not by that guy, what a toolbox.

Luxury · Jun 2006

I like his roomate.

2 games with Angels vs. Demons?! What are the odds!

Marine · Jun 2006

ncsoft have a time machine and they saw how awesome kaos war is in The Future so they came back in time and ripped it off

hawken · Jun 2006

my hometown is twinned with some town in france, the town down the road is twinned with some town in canada.

surely we could twin polycount with some programming board?

Tulkamir · Jun 2006

I think there might be some slight retardation happening there. "Hey! Lets go rent out a huge fuckin mansion even though I only have 200 dollars to my name!"

Ahh well, like all other reality t.v. it is kind of funny.

ElysiumGX · Jun 2006

this hurts to watch.

JordanW · Jun 2006

This video boggles my mind,seriously, boggles, my favorite part is where he shows the list of goals such as 1. make awesome game 2. get game of the year 3. get 6 million subscribers and i'm sure 4. Pwn the shit outa WoW, was on there somewhere. I have a simmilar list on my wall, 1. make lots of money 2. own a sweet car 3. make lots of money

I have no idea how i'm going to get there but at least i have some awesomely vague goals to guide me.

Em. · Jun 2006

This guy reminds me a little too much of a lead on an indie project I did some work for years ago...of course that's most indie project leads taking on MMO's. Maybe he plans on trading sweet stock certificates with angels and demons on them for mansion rent.

doc rob · Jun 2006

#1 best way to convince investors to give you money to fund your game project:

Show yourself online in a video talking about the mansion you're going to buy the second you get funding.

I was SHOCKED to see that there are actually people working with this asshat. Still, it's great fun to watch. G4 needs to get this show along with GameLife.

ScoobyDoofus · Jun 2006

Heh, I thought "Mansion? What the F? Wasn't this guy just complaining about not having any money? And if he did get some funding, he's spending it on a mansion...in the middle of San Francisco? What a retard!"

firestarter · Jun 2006

Oh jesus! The parallels!

Malekyth · Jun 2006

http://games.net/video/player.cfm?vId=100920

Our Hero is back! And less sympathetic a protagonist than ever!

MikeF · Jun 2006

the "searching for wallet" sequence was entertaining

Reality show: build your own MMO!

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