Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding

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• Jeffool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He’s been talking about it on Mastodon for quite a while now. It’s a shame.

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a shame, but also, there’s billions of games and RPGs out already. The game industry is so oversaturated, it’s not even funny.

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    • Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I will take this opportunity to recommend Crosscode, one of the best action RPGs of all time according to 90% of people who play it.

      But yeah even amazing games like that fly under people’s radar in the huge deluge of games. I wish it were easier for good games to find their audience

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And the discoverability pipe is breaking.

      • No one reads oldschool curators like RockPaperShotgun anymore. They’re barely afloat.

      • Generic algorithmic social media like YouTube tends to snowball a few games.

      • Forums are dead. Reddit is dystopian.

      That leaves Steam’s algorithm, and a sea of sparsely used solo curators. But there are billions of people ignoring passion projects they’d love, and playing AAAs or phone games instead.

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    • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And there are so many games that never got finished or polished properly.

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• Pickleideas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Using a screenshot of Stardew while quoting a developer saying it takes money and staff to finish a project is diabolical

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  • CannonGoBoom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not Stardew Valley

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s further proving @p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s point.

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  • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Stardew Valley totally would have taken staff and money if you can’t live in your parent’s house forever.

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    • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No idea why you’re being downvoted, the guy who created Stardew literally had his wife take care of his whole life for him while he was working on it.

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  • slimerancher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “It’s either a passion project you spent ten years on, or you need a bunch of money to be able to hire people and resources”

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  • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I also thought I t was Stardiew but after 3 seconds looking it’s evident it’s not.

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• it_depends_man@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the interview that was mentioned:

  arstechnica.com/…/after-40-years-of-adventure-gam…

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• SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like Ron Gilbert.

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  • Mellow12@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• BuckenBerry@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if he tried to get in touch with smaller indie publishers (something like yacht club games) or he focused on more traditional companies

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• slartibartfast141@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “They have formulas that they apply to games to try to figure out how much money they could make, and in the end you end up giving a whole lot of games that look exactly the same as last year’s games, because that makes some money,” Gilbert explained.
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  He continued: “That’s why I really enjoy the indie game market because it’s kind of free of a lot of that stuff that big publishers bring to it, and there’s a lot more creativity, strangeness, and bizarreness.”

  There’s still a lot of creativity in big games but it’d be shame to see more movement towards nostalgia-driven/pastiche type games.

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