{"id":1636,"date":"2013-07-03T19:52:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2013-07-03T19:52:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:52:44","slug":"shit-got-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2013\/07\/shit-got-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Shit got real"},"content":{"rendered":"

I followed Fez development from the very start. I finally get to play it like I wanted, paying 95% to the developer and getting my Windows version. It starts flawlessly, I\u2019m smiling jumping on platforms, discovering treasures with my arcade stick.<\/p>\n

And then I get stuck in a door, impossible to escape. The file auto-saves constantly so I\u2019m fucked. I can\u2019t get out. I also can\u2019t fucking stop thinking how terrible this is. It\u2019s a bug, it happens. There\u2019s a design flaw too.  But five years of development and a console release should have solved that, right? I guess not.<\/p>\n

Between releasing games with major bugs and making sequels, \u201cindie\u201d developers are now as good as \u201cAAA\u201d developers, amirite. I feel bad for Renaud, though.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the Double Fine Kickstarter mayhem<\/a>. Summary: they ask for 400K, receive 3.3 million, run out of money and the game would be ready by 2015 but half of it would be ready in 6 months.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all right, they\u2019ll get the extra money needed on their own but it is scary: receiving almost ten times more money for a project led by a veteran and it still is not enough? Who can get away with that, what business runs like that? <\/p>\n

But in the end it demonstrates what people still don\u2019t get because most are still in a \u201cit looks gorgeous, I\u2019m buying\u201d<\/em> mode: it\u2019s in-sa-ne-ly hard to make good games, regardless of time and budget. Just thinking about Fez\u2019s collision and detection system with platforms in a fake\/real 3D world my nose starts to bleed, man. The gorgeous<\/em> part of a game explodes development needs at a speed that you wouldn\u2019t imagine.<\/p>\n

I hope these stories will push people to understand the basic economics and R&D, very high risk nature of making games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I followed Fez development from the very start. I finally get to play it like I wanted, paying 95% to the developer and getting my Windows version. It starts flawlessly, I\u2019m smiling jumping on platforms, discovering treasures with my arcade stick. And then I get stuck in a door, impossible to escape. The file auto-saves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}