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Downsides of Kickstarter...
Dec. 15th, 2015 03:07 pm...or, at least, the stupidity of some people who create game projects on Kickstarter. More like the stupidities of video game development in general, I suppose.
So, I got an update not too long ago on one of the games (which I will not name here) that I backed on Kickstarter a couple of years ago, a game whose "estimated delivery" was, unrealistically, the first months of last year.
The update was, among other things, an announcement that they'd just finished the first draft of the game design document. They were acting as if this was a good thing, something to be praised (and praise was indeed what they were getting in the comments under the update from people who obviously know zilch about game development).
As for me, I was like... What. They'd only just finished the first fucking draft of the GDD and they were already at least two years into development? The goddamn GDD, or at least the first goddamn draft of it, should have been finished before they ever even launched the Kickstarter campaign, not two-plus years after it was completed. This is almost as fucking stupid as that guy who claimed that his game was still in pre-alpha a mere month before it was released on Steam. I'm sorry, but the desiccated husk of the DigiPen student inside me that I used to be simply weeps in despair and rage at that. The no-longer-even-remotely-interested-in-professionally-making-video-games guy that I am now just kind of scoffs and makes note that shit like this is partially why I give little to no shits about the modern game industry anymore, AAA or indie or otherwise, either as a consumer or as a creator.
So, I got an update not too long ago on one of the games (which I will not name here) that I backed on Kickstarter a couple of years ago, a game whose "estimated delivery" was, unrealistically, the first months of last year.
The update was, among other things, an announcement that they'd just finished the first draft of the game design document. They were acting as if this was a good thing, something to be praised (and praise was indeed what they were getting in the comments under the update from people who obviously know zilch about game development).
As for me, I was like... What. They'd only just finished the first fucking draft of the GDD and they were already at least two years into development? The goddamn GDD, or at least the first goddamn draft of it, should have been finished before they ever even launched the Kickstarter campaign, not two-plus years after it was completed. This is almost as fucking stupid as that guy who claimed that his game was still in pre-alpha a mere month before it was released on Steam. I'm sorry, but the desiccated husk of the DigiPen student inside me that I used to be simply weeps in despair and rage at that. The no-longer-even-remotely-interested-in-professionally-making-video-games guy that I am now just kind of scoffs and makes note that shit like this is partially why I give little to no shits about the modern game industry anymore, AAA or indie or otherwise, either as a consumer or as a creator.
