Tim Langdell and Edge Games still at it
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http://tigsource.com/articles/2009/07/15/tim-langdell-and-edge-games-still-at-it
http://www.tigsource.com/pages/edge-games
Read those articles. This guy pisses me right the fuck off.
An example of what he does:
Mirrors, a game by edge!
http://www.tigsource.com/pages/edge-games
Read those articles. This guy pisses me right the fuck off.
An example of what he does:
Mirrors, a game by edge!
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Dudes a douche
He ought to be held in contempt for repeated frivolous suits. Or maybe smacked around by The Edge from U2 or something. Whatever they do with people who try to piss on stuff by trying to own words.
Yes, exactly. This parasite on the industry is in the igda.
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haha, check this: http://adamatomic.com/edge/
Part of this competition: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=6807.0
The smugness of the guy's grin just sums up the whole thing to me.
I found people using my work as own ¬¬
There's a facebook group about it now too. :P http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=100713289870&ref=mf
Hopefully this guy gets what's coming to him!
This is the real world.
Signed!
haha, have not heard from Adamatomic since i hung out on CGtalk back in the day, glad to see his humours still the same, and hes still pushing the sprites
I suspect that over the years Tim has spent far more money on legal action than he has ever legitimately earned by the sweat of his brow.
I thought the internet was a part of the real world XDDD
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"...It was EDGE LITE. Hope you liked it because it's gone! Thanks to every player. So bad there is no association to help us...who said IGDA?"
If you cant even depend on the organisation that has a specific task/goal/purpose to help you, whats the point? :susp:
IGDA is important. thats what they do. being important. :P
You will show up, and exspect to see respectable individuals that will be full of usefull information and would like to connect with like minded people....This is not what you will find. On the contrary, you will find old men, and the occassional woman (this is more rare than a unicorn) standing around chatting amongst themselfs. They have little to no interest in meeting new people. Its like a exclusive social club for them. Once you actually DO break through there barrier of cold shoulders, you will find, they are washed up dinosaurs of the games industry. Most are so far removed from todays actual production that its lunacy. On the other side of the room, you will find the always shy group of students. They are always friendly and open to talk, but like the old people, dont really bring any birth of new knowledge to your ears....So you walk away, most the time drunk....because of a lack of anything else to do. Next day you sit and realize, that was a complete waist of time and never return.
So the cycle goes.....dinos hang about, the students stroke there egos, and the actual talented people walk away. THUS the IGDA continues is cycle of bullshiting people into giving them money.
This all from my perspective ofcource... quite a few igda's in a few diff citys around california, and in canada. Perhapse there is a good one somewhere??
how come he hasn't been sued or threatened or had legal action taken against him by these much larger companies he's fucking with (ea, sony, etc), while he goes around ruining the smaller developer's for more or less what he seem's to be doing to them (mirror's edge, edge magazine, etc).
seem's kinda fucked up if i've read it right (umm, give me a couple more minutes...)
and that edgecrement game was dope
If 10% of the members call for a meeting to remove him from the board, then they will, but getting 10% won't be easy because IDGA members are lazy and never vote. If you're an IDGA member look for their email, or check the site.
Collect dues.
Isn't that the sole reason for most professional organizations?
IGDA meetings here are usually my excuse to go down to madison and party with some human head folk when I get the chance every few meets... Raven people don't show often if ever, but I know they hosted the last night at their offices. I definitely wanted to head down for that one but work got in the way so hopefully some more of you Raven guys start attending.
yeah i got that message... then i got a message from the IGDA again saying that it was a hack and that no one from the board sent that e-mail out... they're apparently trying to track down the "culprit"
instead of addressing the real issues and obviously dealing with the reason that 'spoof' email was sent in the first place.
This whole thing is a masquerade and once again the IGDA shows itself for what it is: a circus.
Locally, our last chapter leader tried to have meetings every month. It was hell for her but she did her best, and we did get to see a variety of topics from game design to programming. Even one on art shaders in a great moon.
The new ones... well. I have their email if you want to send a suggestion for something coming up or a service you can offer.
I realize Landell is an @$$ and most likely I have to admit I was one of those that voted for him since the type of things that have come out about him since then would not have been on a writeup. I saw a indie developer which I could relate with. Versus some PR , VP, CEO types vying for positions.
The last meeting the IDGA held at The Guildhall SMU I attended, of course I am not in industry. It was free, and two people from Gearbox were there answering questions and giving insight. No information was given to me that was new, (Polycount gave me all of that
Also, I try to attend everything I can in the area...
Hooray for Networking!
I have yet to attend one
What's it for, again?
I totally understand its run on a volunteer basis but 2-3 years to train wreck a functional site, sounds like a crack team.
If work wasn't paying for the membership dues my commitment would be far less.
I would probably do more with IGDA if it was the IGDA Seattle Sputnik from a few years back.
The week before they did have a small meeting after an event downtown that was announced through email. Now, it was announced the day before, and it was at a very bad time and downtown Seattle. I did not attend myself. However, if none of you give your suggestions. Its like a blank slate with them having no guidance of what the local community wants.
We also have a forum, though I would insist you attempt to contact the leaders individually.
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Mop, have you ever contacted them about offering to give a speech? You have some great info that could be shared.
They never covered Industry Giants 2009, Massive Black, nor Diverge Workshops. Although they were notified.
This is something that bothers me quite a bit. I'm all for industry associations,
and I genuinely believe the IDGA has game dev's best interests in mind but I'm concerned with how the IDGA could remain ignorant of the art workshops/culture that are feeding the industry. It's just bizarre. Likewise, any mention of Dominance War and Unearthly Challenge to them seems to just vanish into the void. Maybe that'll change in the future though.
Nothing of consequence, polycount does more for the game community then IGDA does
http://www.igda.org/newsroom/Tim%20Resigns.pdf