Schilling's Green Monster Games

[Venkman]

I think the lack of creativity in many companies is for the fairly standard "money grab" reason. It happens all the time. Cutting edge breeds followers breeds derivation breeds stagnation. Look at match-3 casual games?

To me it's often the methodology that defines the tools to use. I don't blame the tools for limiting the creativity of the designers. I blame the source of their funding for forcing them into derivation.

So I agree with you that greater creativity could happen if people weren't hemmed into using the same methodologies. Personally, on clouds alone, I'd love to see interactive clouds in an MMO with flying. Clouds you could hide in/behind, clouds that could cause electrical storms that could short out circuitry, or be channeled into a weapon, whatever.

There's much more that could be done. It first requires the will though, and that seems largely lacking. Seems like the creativity that sparks new genres comes every 5 years or so.

[gehrig38]

Started a blog today, at www.38pitches.com
Hoping to be able to talk about baseball and 38 Studios all in one place. Can't keep up with all the forums out there now. At some point there will be the ability to do Q&A, which hopefully will be informative for all involved.

[Azaroth]

It's probably not even Curt Schilling.


or


Cut Schilling spambot v2.0!


I can't decide which comment is funnier.

[Blackguard]

And thus Curt Schilling makes his final step into geekdom, running not only his own entertainment company, but his very own blog. I'm just jealous because I think your blog will be more popular than mine within a few days. :P

[Stephen Zepp]

Started a blog today, at www.38pitches.com
Hoping to be able to talk about baseball and 38 Studios all in one place. Can't keep up with all the forums out there now. At some point there will be the ability to do Q&A, which hopefully will be informative for all involved.

Welcome to Game Development...and welcome to F13.

Realize that this is the place where we all (game developers) go to get beat up on daily, so be ready to have a thick skin!

What's ironic however is that many of us keep coming back for more!

[Trippy]

Started a blog today, at www.38pitches.com
Hoping to be able to talk about baseball and 38 Studios all in one place. Can't keep up with all the forums out there now. At some point there will be the ability to do Q&A, which hopefully will be informative for all involved.

Welcome to Game Development...and welcome to F13.

Realize that this is the place where we all (game developers) go to get beat up on daily, so be ready to have a thick skin!

He's already had that experience here :-D

[Nebu]

What's ironic however is that many of us keep coming back for more!

I'm not sure "ironic" was the word you were looking for.  Masochistic perhaps...   :-D

[Signe]

Yay!  Baseball blog!

Wait.  What?

[tazelbain]

Baseball is the prefect sport for blogging because there is plenty of time during the game for the players to blog.

[shiznitz]

Someone should invent a baseball mitt with a blackberry imbedded in it for those guys in right field.

[Mandrel]

/wonders how long till TV cameras catch Kurt on a laptop in the dugout on one of his off- days.

[Azazel]

Started a blog today, at www.38pitches.com
Hoping to be able to talk about baseball and 38 Studios all in one place. Can't keep up with all the forums out there now. At some point there will be the ability to do Q&A, which hopefully will be informative for all involved.

Welcome to Game Development...and welcome to F13.

Realize that this is the place where we all (game developers) go to get beat up on daily, so be ready to have a thick skin!

What's ironic however is that many of us keep coming back for more!

I got the impression from that post that he won't be posting here much, if at all anymore...

[Strazos]

Baseball is the prefect sport for blogging because there is plenty of time during the game for the players to blog.

/lawlercakes

[Furiously]

and celebrated author R.A. Salvatore (creator of Drizzt Do’Urden, one of modern fantasy’s most memorable characters, www.rasalvatore.com).

I think he put that there just for a couple of you here.

[Lucas]

Copernicus R Us.

(btw, it's just the "codename", not the "working title")

[gehrig38]

Copernicus R Us.

(btw, it's just the "codename", not the "working title")

Thanks for that:) It is the codename, period. We knew something would get out there well ahead of when we planned or wanted it to, as well as needing to get something out there ahead of when we may have planned on rolling it out, so the smart people here came up with Copernicus.

[Venkman]

Tabula Rasa (clean slate, new thinking, philosophy) codename, or Tabula Rasa (eh, we got nothing else, let's trademark that as a real name) codename?

I did like Massively's use of the term "ancient medieval". That rings of Star Trek's use of "ancient" to describe 19th century Earth. Doesn't "ancient" usually mean like pre-history, or at least, B.C.? Regardless, I don't consider 500 years "ancient".

Anyway, when do you plan to want to get something out there? 

[gehrig38]

Me? Come on, I am a gamer, I want to tell you yesterday! The smart people here? Not so much.
It will roll out when it is supposed to, and how it's supposed to.

We are planning to lift our skirts a bit more this year at Comic Con in SD.

[Lucas]

Me? Come on, I am a gamer, I want to tell you yesterday! The smart people here? Not so much.
It will roll out when it is supposed to, and how it's supposed to.

We are planning to lift our skirts a bit more this year at Comic Con in SD.

Me likes underskirts.

[schild]

I'll play the devil's advocate here.

Are you going to Comic Con to show the game because of Todd McFarlane? Need I remind you his shoddy history with games and the best usage of one of his characters - ever - was letting Spawn be an overpowered wreck in the xbox version of Soul Calibur. Game shows plz.

[gehrig38]

The timing and audience at Comic Con are just two of many reasons it's the best fit, not to mention there might be one or two more people in the world who mean as much to that event as Todd does. Being able to talk directly to his fans, and fantasy fans, and gamers, is cool.....

[sidereal]

there might be one or two more people in the world who mean as much to that event as Todd does

Stan Lee, Frank Miller, and Jack Kirby.  I win!

[UnSub]

I'll play the devil's advocate here.

Are you going to Comic Con to show the game because of Todd McFarlane? Need I remind you his shoddy history with games and the best usage of one of his characters - ever - was letting Spawn be an overpowered wreck in the xbox version of Soul Calibur. Game shows plz.

I'd suggest that showing Copernicus at Comic Con - which fast becoming more about nerd culture in lots of different media areas than just comics - is a good step for what is currently an under the radar game.

On the other hand, a knight riding a horse fills me with a big case of the mehs. More info plz.

[gehrig38]

At this point we'll have to settle for "meh's". As much as Curt Schilling the gamer geek would love to tell you and show you, at the end of the day every decision we make must be with the entity, the IP, as the complete and total focus. We do what's best for the game, the IP, the world and the company, and never deter from that, ever.

[Lucas]

Aye, never deter from the Vision VisionVisionVision !!!

[gehrig38]

At the end of the day I owe it to the members of this company, this family, to do right by them and what we are creating much more so than anything else. That makes my impatience and people telling me to shut it, easier to take, even though I am the boss:)

You bring in someone as good as Brett Close, someone as talented as Jason Roberts, Steve Danuser, you're stupid to mettle or get in their way, you pay them to do what hey do best, move out of the way and let them do it.

[Venkman]

Bah, I gotta wait to Comic Con? I was hoping for GDC

Just kidding.

I do like the extra effort Lucas took with Vision though.

[Moorgard]

Shut it!

[Rasix]

What you show better not be a minute long CGI with that guy that does movie voice-overs talking the background (or Morgan Freeman). That stuff really grinds my gears. 

How about a good slide show?

[schild]

To be fair Rasix, if they blew the money on Morgan Freeman, that'd be pretty great.

Of course, they may as well just donate it to f13 if they're going to do that though.

[Draegan]

Morgan Freeman would be hilarious.  I second the idea.

[WayAbvPar]

"Yes, you could say I liked Copernicus right from the start."

[amiable]

At the end of the day I owe it to the members of this company, this family, to do right by them and what we are creating much more so than anything else. That makes my impatience and people telling me to shut it, easier to take, even though I am the boss:)

You bring in someone as good as Brett Close, someone as talented as Jason Roberts, Steve Danuser, you're stupid to mettle or get in their way, you pay them to do what hey do best, move out of the way and let them do it.

So you've decided not to be the Steinbrenner of MMO's?  Good call.  To be honest as a gaming fan I would find that pretty difficult.

[Sky]

Morgan Freeman would be hilarious.  I second the idea.

Wait, they're doing Half-Life Online?

[Lt.Dan]

What you show better not be a minute long CGI with that guy that does movie voice-overs talking the background (or Morgan Freeman). That stuff really grinds my gears. 

How about a good slide show?

If they do that we'll take the opening quote from the voiceover and ETYC up a presentation...