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Re: AnyBody Wanna Create an Game?
[Re: mogsa]
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12/18/07 19:51
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...the features could be like WoW...
that made my day. 
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Re: AnyBody Wanna Create an Game?
[Re: mogsa]
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12/21/07 08:19
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Very cool idea.To make a game is hard work...the fact that you want to make a game and have all these interesting ideas is a start.It's always good to create a small level as suggested above and see how that goes,play around with the level to help you build inspiration to form a team;then go from there.Good luck.
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Re: AnyBody Wanna Create an Game?
[Re: RJHitman]
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01/07/08 07:53
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Saving them the wasted time and effort put into way too overambitious projects. I've been doing game and mod development for almost 10 years now so I guess I can say I know what I'm talking about
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Re: AnyBody Wanna Create an Game?
[Re: RJHitman]
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01/07/08 08:47
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Actually, we're only discouraging him from making a game that he will fail at! Trust me, spend some time on the forums and you will start to recognize those kind of projects!  But instead of just saying "you can't do it" we are telling him what he can do, and what most of the beginners CAN do - make a small game. That's the way to do it! It's like discouraging someone from jumping off a cliff - there is always a small possibility that he will survive, but nevertheless, it's not a smart idea.  Leonardo
"Things of the mind left untested by the senses are useless."
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Re: AnyBody Wanna Create an Game?
[Re: RJHitman]
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01/07/08 18:18
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So for the people who 'laugh' at this post, just remember that the people who made WoW and are now godly rich, started by saying his exact same words.
Lol, but Blizzard has over ten years of experience with online games dating back to their earlier Starcraft and Warcraft games, probably even before those. I'm 100% certain they were in a WAY different position when they started working on WoW as you are.
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I agree that you should start small, but I also understand where you are coming from. I guess it's to say that many of the people on this forum are professionals and want to get paid and be 'professionals', meh. I was kinda looking for a group, but the thing is I don't even know what my specialty is! lol
It has little to do with professionals or being professional. If someone sets goals that are rather unrealistic, it's only because we want to help that we warn people about it. There's no such thing as a 'curse' on MMO games or something, but it's not something a newbie can handle. I'm not even sure if a small team without the necessary funds could manage it, probably not. It takes tremendous amounts of resources, servers on which your game is running, good graphics so people will even bother to start playing, marketing and so on. I don't think now is a good time to start an MMO when the competition is this fierce. By the time World of Warcraft 2 gets finished your game is likely to not even be finished, let alone as good as World of Warcraft 1.
Making a 2D MMO with a distinct abstract style, something less ambitious has a better chance of survival.
Basically if someone sets it their goal to re-make World of Warcraft when just starting out with 3dgs, what they're really trying to do is to pick up a guitar, claim they can play it like Jimi Hendrix within a year and obviously fail miserably at it. When it comes to 3dgs you might even come to the conclusion along the way that your guitar lacks some vital strings you'll need to play the same songs Hendrix did if you even come to the point of actually playing a song,
Cheers
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Re: AnyBody Wanna Create an Game?
[Re: RJHitman]
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01/07/08 21:08
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testDummy
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You discouraging him will only stop his overall creation of this game. ... but you guys discouraging him only makes him less - confident
Maybe I'm making a assumption myself, but that looks like a psychology or personality related assumption. Perhaps, the user reacts with the "I'll show you fu<kers zest"(c) when dealing with discouragement and naysayers?
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What good are you getting out of this forum by discouraging other people?
Good? Where do you think you are? "Stick n justify, sharpy."
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