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worstplayer
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I give up.

Post by worstplayer »

No way i'm touching this POS again. Take anything from it if you want.
.gm6: http://pivostudios.hustej.net/bum.gm6
.exe: http://pivostudios.hustej.net/bum.exe

I'm working on another one that will hopefully suck less.
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Post by Motorherp »

Unfortunately I couldn't play your game, it complained about missing or corrupt data, possible just a bad download. Anyway if I can just make a suggestion. Starting from scratch when a project doesn't turn out well isn't always the best way to go. Unless you explore and fix the problems you have you wont learn anything from them. Chances are you'll just make the same mistakes again in your new project.

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Post by worstplayer »

Yes, i just noticed that too, i'll upload it again.
And i decided to start from scratch because it seems to be basic concept that's broken. With enough patching it could turn into "somewhat playable" game but that's just not enough.

EDIT: even after reupload, it still doesn't work. WTF?
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Post by Shatterhand »

well, I think it depends upon how much work you've put in the game.

If it's not a lot of work, and you feel it really sux... yeah, just start something new. It's not easy to keep working in something you KNOW won't be very good (Unless you are getting paid, and even then it's not THAT easy :D);

Now if you have done a LOT of work on the game before finding out it sucks.. well.. just do a quick job, finish it quickly with what you have, release it and start over :)
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Post by the2bears »

Shatterhand wrote:Now if you have done a LOT of work on the game before finding out it sucks.. well.. just do a quick job, finish it quickly with what you have, release it and start over :)
Yep, sometimes just finishing and releasing *something* can help teach alot.

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