5pb teases new project with former Cave producer Mako Asada

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Programming duties? Maybe something more akin to scripting, to be honest this is probably more the kind of thing you'll see 'designers' getting into, not 'programmer', he's not writing tools or new parallel systems - not to say there's not important work to be done, but there's no possible way he'd be holding down a fully involved code job.

This smacks of "not a real programmer" brouhaha. "Scripting" is programming, too. How many people have written games in, for instance, Unity, and how many people have worked on the actual Unity game engine?

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I think you guys may have missed adversity's post.

Just a few points checked against the book text:

When I first got into the world of programming games ↓
When I first got into the game industry

When I first joined Cave my job was to test completed games. ↓
When I was still an underling, my job was to test completed games.

This was during the XBOX 360 releases of Mushihime-sama, Galuda II Black, and Deathsmiles IIX. Not only was I behind the scenes programming these games, but I also had to attend our matsuri events as well as attend press conferences and game conventions. ↓
This was during the XBOX 360 releases of Mushihime-sama, Galuda II Black, and Deathsmiles IIX. I was participating in vendor events as well, so the period between the Tokyo Game Show in September and the release of Deathsmiles IIX in May was really hard on me.

Asada was not a programmer.

[Elixir]

The "you need to be skilled at the genre in order to make a good game of the genre" in this thread is really weird, there's tons of commercial and doujin developers who fall into this category yet they have made good games.

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Programming duties? Maybe something more akin to scripting, to be honest this is probably more the kind of thing you'll see 'designers' getting into, not 'programmer', he's not writing tools or new parallel systems - not to say there's not important work to be done, but there's no possible way he'd be holding down a fully involved code job.

This smacks of "not a real programmer" brouhaha. "Scripting" is programming, too. How many people have written games in, for instance, Unity, and how many people have worked on the actual Unity game engine?

Indeed. And if you go far back enough, there are plenty of "real" programmers who would laugh at the idea that even C++ was a "programming" language. It's just insecure snobbery.

Even more pertinent is that Cave didn't even code the tools they used for the 360 ports. They licensed it all from M2.

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The "you need to be skilled at the genre in order to make a good game of the genre" in this thread is really weird, there's tons of commercial and doujin developers who fall into this category yet they have made good games.

Welcome back, dude.

[Laurel_McFang]

I'm not sur if this was already reported, but more info on what Mages is up to:

24. Koutarou Uchikoshi is working on a new game at Mages.

Although he’s still working for Spike Chunsoft, Uchikoshi unambiguously told Famitsu that he is indeed collaborating with Steins;Gate developer Mages on a new game and that the scenario is already complete. He went on to say it’ll be a “sexual comedy” set to a science fiction suspense fantasy. As one might expect from him, he has high hopes that the game will turn out well.

Famitsu’s Plausibility: 100%
Froma. Neogaf thread:

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=799640
It's a translation from famitsu. Might not be the game Asada is working on though, but it appears Mages has 1 new VN in the works.

[trap15]

That's probably it then.

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