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: Ok, let's start : Marco Turetta April 06, 2011, 11:33:00 PM Hello everybody,
I'm really glad to join this forum which I've been silently reading since the first days. I've always loved videogames, very much. But i finished very few of them as I get easily tired of repetitive tasks (like kill, kill, kill... or quest, quest, quest... ) and I feel frustrated when I'm confronted with content put there merely to make the game of an industry-acceptable length. Since the 90's I asserted in conversations that videogames could be real works of art, but wasn't able to provide any convincing example. I would have been more credible stating that I believed in aliens... Then I almost casually stomped into The Path. The joy I felt starting playing it must have been similar to that of Jodie Foster when she first heard the alien message in Contact! I work as a professional programmer. And recently I've started dedicating myself to making games. I almost finished coding my first little project, in the meanwhile sketching the design for the second one, a bit more ambitious and personal. The goal is to iterate, possibly increasing complexity, aesthetics and meaning 8) : Re: Ok, let's start : Michaël Samyn April 07, 2011, 12:59:45 AM Welcome!
Looking forward to your work and ideas. The joy I felt starting playing it must have been similar to that of Jodie Foster when she first heard the alien message in Contact! How very flattering! Thank you. :-[ :-* : Re: Ok, let's start : Jeroen D. Stout April 07, 2011, 10:48:58 PM Hello elDroid!
Looking forward to seeing what you were inspired to - my alien message was The Graveyard. There is not much real works of art when it comes to games, but making them can be as good as seeing them, I do find. : Re: Ok, let's start : Marco Turetta April 08, 2011, 12:35:45 AM Hello Jeroen, and thank you.
Despite being a so constrained game I felt a sense of freedom playing The Graveyard, as if I finally wasn't expected to do anything. I have the "full version" now, but I didn't play it yet. Maybe I'm not ready to let the nice old lady go :'( Michaël, it seems many of us owe you a drink for the inspiration ;D : Re: Ok, let's start : Michaël Samyn April 08, 2011, 09:33:37 AM Michaël, it seems many of us owe you a drink for the inspiration ;D I am but half of the Siamese twins called Tale of Tales. Auriea will get half of each drink. :) Anyway, I'm very glad to notice this. Because we were feeling quite alone with our ideas for a while there. Which is frustrating because it all seems so obvious plus there's a real desire in the audience for these things. Glad to see more developers exploring the huge potential of the medium! : Re: Ok, let's start : Marco Turetta April 10, 2011, 12:04:20 AM I am but half of the Siamese twins called Tale of Tales. Auriea will get half of each drink. Of course ;) I thought of you and Auriea and The Path today when I saw this short "Lucia": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGj74CRn8xo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGj74CRn8xo) : Re: Ok, let's start : Marco Turetta April 10, 2011, 12:30:19 AM I see now it was ment to be in two parts.
This is the second one, shot one year later: http://vimeo.com/5214935 (http://vimeo.com/5214935) |