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Re: The Sckratch Magazine IG showcase '08 [Re: tkunze] #209717
06/05/08 08:19
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Feel free to ignore this if it's not for you. The best thing you can do when you find a comment or post that you don't like, something you find a personal attack or find outright offensive is to continue to post in your thread as though that person had never said a thing. Even if you feel really upset and the need to say something it's always better if you don't. If you can do that even though you don't feel like it, it's a good sign of maturity.

Re: The Sckratch Magazine IG showcase '08 [Re: DavidLancaster] #209743
06/05/08 12:06
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@not_me: David is right. Ignore it or turn it around and have some fun with it. I had a nice, lighthearted time with the last crap post I received. That junk doesn't bother me anymore. It gets easier to laugh at garbage when you get a bit older.

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On a lighter note, the first ever Orange Brat Shenanigans/The Disenfranchised interview or article or whatever it is going to be is going to appear in a future issue of Sckratch (I'm assuming the next one after the redesign). There's a 50/50 chance that an exclusive screen shot may be provided for it.


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Re: The Sckratch Magazine IG showcase '08 [Re: tkunze] #209772
06/05/08 17:04
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At first, please don't take anything personal. I am trying my best to avoid it, but mainly caused by my bad english knowledge you could may get a wrong impression.

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[...]but remember, making a product, good or bad, takes time effor and patience. we worked hard and did our personal best on that first issue. We were quite proud of our work at completion.

I think that I know this quite well and I did not meant to make you and your work down. I just wanted to give you some hints on how to make people more interested in your work. A bad design will not attract anyone. I downloaded Aztecs "magazine", opened it and nearly closed it again because of the crappy design. I did not because I read the first lines and considered them quite interesting, so I read on. But still I did nearly close it and I guess others did so.
I created a lot of crap in the last few years and was very proud of it. But still it is just crap even if it was a lot of work. Other people can't see all the work, they just look at what they see and if it is not appealing they won't give it a try.

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For you to sit here and tell us it was a load of crap(not your exact words) is like saying you just wasted your time and you should quit and give up on this because it was really bad.

As you stated, I did NOT use these words and even far more important is, that it is NOT like saying that you should give up.

If you post something on the forum you expose it to critics and critic can be positiv or negative. But that is not the important thing on posting, important is to give hints on how to improve things. I usually try to do so and wanted to do it with my previous post on this topic. It will not help anyone if you tell him how great his work is if it is in reallity just very bad crap.

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a leader with out followers is just a man..going for a walk...

I like that sentence and don't consider it childish, though this sentence could probably give people some wrong ideas if you think about autocracy.

What I consider childish is what lostclimate already explained:
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Head director of Initiate Games (c) 2007
Owner of Sckratch Magazine (c) 2007


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no one wants to do anything for fun anymore.

I do it for fun, but a project is a lot of work (as you also mentioned) and I would not start a project for nothing (for example for this contest) if I am already working on cuple of things I really like to work on. But it is worth the effort if you can win A7 Pro for example.


tkunze is a good example on how to get respected for the work. In the beginning it caused I cancer to even look at the screenshots he posted, though I really liked it because it was in the very first month I was working with gamestudio and I learned about detailmapping through his website just a little bit later (I still link people there :P). But however people made his work and especially his plans down a lot. He is still working on the project and it is getting absolutly awsome. And it is really impressive how much he invested into that project.

You can only get better through critics.
And sorry for my overuse of the word crap.
Projects can be bad and very bad and even worse, but will never be crap (just to use the word again :P).

Just go on and give your best, help others, be patient, share your work and everyone is happy smile

Re: The Sckratch Magazine IG showcase '08 [Re: tkunze] #210117
06/08/08 05:31
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just to clear the water. im definitely not mad at anyone. i was having a horrible day. i was hoping to come into the forum and have atleast some positive feed back on something. this sorta just pushed me off the edge and i went off. nothing personal to anyone.

i am head director of initiate games...theres no other way around it. i just am. its my title.

owner of sckratch magazine. i started the company...i own the company. just wanted to say that. but ill probably change my sinature when something new and profound hits me. i take criticism well... when im not mad and tired...and fatigued from a long hard day( 12 hours of work). and im not sick...ive learned to take criticism well. just sometimes i think something needs to be said...and im the type of person who has to have the last word. i argue very little...but when i do believe me i will have the last word. lol. most of the time. the contest was asking for a bit much. there was no reason for me to get upset. next time ill ask for alittle if im giving a little prize...we might bring create-a-bob back...that is...if people will participate.


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Re: The Sckratch Magazine IG showcase '08 [Re: not_me] #210122
06/08/08 07:42
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to be honest this thread starts to become a fun thread.

But you have to keep in mind that you expose yourself in a forum. And at least
for us in germany it is a little bit strange if you give you some title by
yourself... (It's a very formal country).

So sometimes it is really an issue of different cultures.

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Owner of a german car ;-)

Re: The Sckratch Magazine IG showcase '08 [Re: tkunze] #210223
06/09/08 04:35
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Hi not_me,

head director of Initiate Games and owner of Sckratch Magazine.
Please take a look at the link in your signature, it wont work.
I don't know your magazine up to now and would like to take a look into it before decide to participate with project informations.

Thanx, mercuryus

Re: The Sckratch Magazine IG showcase '08 [Re: tkunze] #210931
06/13/08 22:05
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Originally Posted By: tkunze


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Owner of a german car ;-)

that made me smile...but im going to bring back the create a bob contest...thats probably the only contest we'll ever do in the forum from now on. hopefully we'll get it out before the magazine so we can have that in the magazine. the magazine is nearing completion, we just have a few more articles to write.

thanks all smile
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just got back from disney world!!!! smile


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