Thanks a lot for the responses guys, will try to play it together with some old-school friend I think.

Holy macaroni, they must be extremely good at their stuff. We're making a game in 3D right now but we're using simpler shapes and a stylized look to make it not take forever (we have only two people making the 3D-models). Even though I think the look of the trailer is quite boring it's still amazing how much shit they've put together.

OK... so ever since I started hanging out with other game developers (or wannabes rather, this started when I went to game design university) people have talked about "Another World" (also known as "Out of this World" and maybe more similar names) by Eric Chahi. I remember seeing it in a lecture about vector graphics and maybe I tried it a little bit back then, I'm not entirely sure.

Anyway  – Eric was at GDC this year and people continued the raving about the game (the Sword and Sworcery people mention him constantly). So yesterday I decided to give it a try. It starts of nicely with a little animated movie and then your left alone in a cool looking alien world. After dying approximately 7 times in the water, 1 time by the slug on the ground and maybe 10 times by some panther like creature that you can't outrun I felt like enough is enough (it restarts from the water every time). Can anyone please explain how this game is meant to be enjoyed? Do you have to be a kid back in 1990-something with infinite patience? Am I incredibly clumsy and stupid and should play more until I get it? Or should I just watch the whole thing on YouTube?  Please, I want to understand this important milestone in our field! Any help or guidance is appreciated.

Thanks,
Erik

Yeah, we probably shouldn't tell them that it's art we're making. Just let that be our little dirty secret among developers.
Or our Mysterious Dark Powers!

I like that tactic.

Hello, nice to meet you!

A good read. "To hell with efficiency!" is a nice slogan. Niklas, the painter & artist who I'm working with on my current project has really made it clear that that's how he wants to work, after having bad experiences in other groups. I must confess that as the leader for the whole project I have to fight the instincts that tells me that we have to be more efficient. It is absolutely clear though that this way of working will lead to a much better result. As long as we don't starve to death first, that is. I guess that ultimately we are out of money and food the same day that the game goes on sale.

How quickly it passed... I'm rising my glass for another great year of discussions, inspiration and more notgameishness in the world!

No, I won't let them try this one. They both made a brave attempt with Shadow of The Colossus (which they were really psyched to try) but the tricky camera and the 30 min intro movie made it very unenjoyable.

First, huge congratulations to you Jeroen, hope the nomination leads to many good things!

Secondly, yeah it's interesting to see what such a diverse group of judges came up with. (and nice to know that you suggested Kometen Michaël )

Oh, this is the kind of well-written article that even gets my mom and dad want to play some video games. It should be in a newspaper!

Very inspiring!

I'm still a bit worried about how to get interesting details into the story though. All good linear stories have a lot of those things Thomas talk about but they also have very specific details that mesh perfectly together (like jokes in a comedy for example). Without details we just get a very broad brush to paint with, so to speak. Or do you guys think that I am being too negative, or do I misunderstand something?

Hej!

Always feel some national pride when Swedes sign up here

Hope to meet you at some point. Until then; please make yourself at home here!

Looks extremely cool but I don't understand how to navigate it. Is it possible, and if so how? I keep falling down.

*feeling stupid*

That's a great start, God at play.

And Michaël, please give us an example of a programming statement in Dutch

Here's one in Swedish, just for fun:

Flytta karaktären snabbt framåt (på ett snyggt sätt) när jag trycker på uppåtpilsknappen, tack.

Wow, that's a lot of interesting thoughts Axcho!

I can see how you think this would work and it is an interesting and cool idea. Very hard to implement though... I'm trying to imagine how someone could make a very small "proof of concept" but it's hard. I'm thinking a lot about these things right now too, I will get back as soon as I have some ideas.