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Dang, I guess all these games I have on steam are just a figment of my imagination then...
Only if a cheesy 80's rapper confirms it.Originally Posted by murfle
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Ah, I remember that video. The good old days.
Ironically, those were also the days when people worked in game dev because they loved the medium, as opposed to nowadays when people work in it simply because it's another 8-5 job.
(Also, James, why u no spell correctly in the thread title?)
1992!
No blaming the 80's for the horrors wrought upon us by the 90's!
*nod* To quote Rhianna Pratchett (Risen, Psychonauts, Overlord, Mirror's Edge and, recently, the new Tomb Raider) from her recent TED talk, "If you want to write for games, you should play games. I'm asked all the time by writers, "How do I get into games?" Then I ask, "Ah, okay, so you're a gamer, you like games?" "No, not really, my kids play." And it sort of seems remarkable to me that people could think about going into an industry and have really no idea of how that industry is consumed by players. So I always advise that if you want to write for games, you need to play games. It's like if I show you cut-scenes there's a lot that you can pick up as a player of how these things are put together; so you need to know your medium."
And what you say is completely true: there are many people working in the video game industry that simply don't care about their medium and consider it just another job.
Reminds me of that BioWare writer (Jennifer Hepler) who is remembered as basically saying that "Playing games is my least favourite thing" about working in the industry; who successfully tainted my perceptions of BioWare for life.
I can't wrap my head around people like that working in the video games industry. It's just something that will not compute.
I have the same feeling about people who work in the IT industry - including the people who work in computer stores - it shouldn't just be another job - you should be interested in computing for it's own sake as well.Ah, I remember that video. The good old days.
Ironically, those were also the days when people worked in game dev because they loved the medium, as opposed to nowadays when people work in it simply because it's another 8-5 job.
(Also, James, why u no spell correctly in the thread title?
"And when you add it all together you'll end up with about 20-30 people" These days that would be considered borderline indie :P
Wow. If only this video had been produced in the 80s when we had the REAL floppy disks -- the big black suckers. We were copying and sharing all sorts of games: Aztec, Hard Hat Mack, Aliens, Conan: Hall of Volta... And yes, we played them on the library computers (though we were only allowed to do so after school).
3.25" are real floppies. It refers to the magnetic media inside, not the casing.
Pro-tip: Never refer to 3.25" floppies as stiffies overseas
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This video comes from the 80s....
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