03-23-2024, 03:16 PM
My bro says that most publishers and developers focus on graphics because that is actually easier than everything else.
Even if your gameplay is kind of shitty, at least your graphics are still good for the trailers and marketing is the line of thinking he says.
The big problem is that there just aren't enough game designers to come up with great gameplay loops, maps, systems, stories, missions etc. and those that do usually end up in executive roles far removed from actual development. Also, the 'creatives' in the industry want to reinvent the wheel or start from scratch instead of building on what already works and lots of big publishers like Nintendo have patents for things that are pretty mundane but legal will point them out and tell you to change them.
Something like a new Perfect Dark should be a fairly straightforward project but they spend 10 years or longer prototyping and still can't figure it out.
[hide]His "mod" team made Day of Infamy in ~3 to 5 months building on Insurgency Source and the first release of Insurgency Sandstorm was developed in ~18 months including the scrapped singleplayer they worked on for 6 months.
Then they pushed for AAA quality, changed company culture, moved to UE5, outsourced post-launch Sandstorm support, expanded the team to 80+ developers, hired "AAA" talent and the result after 6 years... nothing.
Now he is trying to bring Insurgency Sandstorm back to its original sense of realism after the "AAA" creative directors started to turn it into COD with killcams and bright camos and such.
When they asked him what to do 6 years ago, he proposed a Day of Infamy sequel using the Sandstorm engine and great post-launch support for Sandstorm as well as bringing it to PS4. But all sorts of AAA developers came in who had worked at big publishers who sort of looked down on the "modders". He also pitched a C&C-like Switch RTS game.
They brought Sandstorm to consoles years later where it actually does very well because its the only realistic shooter out there.[/hide]
Even if your gameplay is kind of shitty, at least your graphics are still good for the trailers and marketing is the line of thinking he says.
The big problem is that there just aren't enough game designers to come up with great gameplay loops, maps, systems, stories, missions etc. and those that do usually end up in executive roles far removed from actual development. Also, the 'creatives' in the industry want to reinvent the wheel or start from scratch instead of building on what already works and lots of big publishers like Nintendo have patents for things that are pretty mundane but legal will point them out and tell you to change them.
Something like a new Perfect Dark should be a fairly straightforward project but they spend 10 years or longer prototyping and still can't figure it out.
[hide]His "mod" team made Day of Infamy in ~3 to 5 months building on Insurgency Source and the first release of Insurgency Sandstorm was developed in ~18 months including the scrapped singleplayer they worked on for 6 months.
Then they pushed for AAA quality, changed company culture, moved to UE5, outsourced post-launch Sandstorm support, expanded the team to 80+ developers, hired "AAA" talent and the result after 6 years... nothing.
Now he is trying to bring Insurgency Sandstorm back to its original sense of realism after the "AAA" creative directors started to turn it into COD with killcams and bright camos and such.
When they asked him what to do 6 years ago, he proposed a Day of Infamy sequel using the Sandstorm engine and great post-launch support for Sandstorm as well as bringing it to PS4. But all sorts of AAA developers came in who had worked at big publishers who sort of looked down on the "modders". He also pitched a C&C-like Switch RTS game.
They brought Sandstorm to consoles years later where it actually does very well because its the only realistic shooter out there.[/hide]
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