Search
-
Re: Former Firewalk/Concord dev talks Marathon
No, that's exactly the thing you shouldn't keep in mind, because for this you'd have to assume that there is some default "normal" state and everything else is just a modification of that default. That's not true in real life, and it doesn't seem healthy to hold that thought in public minds through art. If you just… -
Re: Former Firewalk/Concord dev talks Marathon
So basically you want to put a gag order on people. Mainly the people who dare to tell Gamers when they're full of shit. To be honest, I would probably be breaking the rules if I said the full extent of how I feel. So I'll settle for this.....Anyone who wants to call inclusion "controversial" and suggest it should be… -
Re: Former Firewalk/Concord dev talks Marathon
On the other hand, the opposite term for this is "brutal honesty", which for too many is just an excuse to be a nonconstructive jerk. It doesn't help that so many points central to these discussions constructed around highly subjective or misguided "truths". ...Like, why we keep acting as if there is a "default" type of… -
Re: Former Firewalk/Concord dev talks Marathon
@stray One aspect to keep in mind with protagonists (women or otherwise) is what a default is and how the audience feels about it. Broken teen fantasy like Dead or Alive Basketball or Japanese eroge games is an extreme, as are characters from Concord or Dustborn and studios on both sides are very open about it. However the… -
Re: Former Firewalk/Concord dev talks Marathon
The challenge is that even if we as devs/artists see the games we've worked on as art, or its content to be artistic at the end we have no ownership of it and for the end user, this is a product they are purchasing. Its why I added, what the audience feels about it. You can assess what the audience wants through an…
5 results