I wrote the basic design in about a week. Then it took about 2 months to get the full design out.
The inspiration was to build a version of Backyard Monsters (which I enjoyed) and make it more engaging. The Last Stand: Union City really helped lay the groundwork though, a lot of the loot ideas came from there.
- Playing or watching lots of games by other people and then de-constructing the good parts of them.
- Learning about all of the disciplines involved in game development and understanding them
- Design (but not to completion) a huge amount and variety of games. I currently have 30 or 40 rough designs for new games. Eventually, I'll take parts from 3 or 4 of them and make something great. The other ideas will go back on the pile.
It's definitely interesting. I think it's a mixture of things; people aren't happy with the direction they're taking the series & a good old fashion internet pile on.
As they've pushed Call of Duty further and further into the near future, I think people are getting tired of the exo's and such. I personally think they've strayed a bit too far from their roots.
The other thing is something you'll see everywhere on the internet - the pile on. Voting systems that expose the vote results up front cause serious weighting in the direction of the most popular vote already. As the scale tips in a 50-50 vote, it will almost always end up vertical, with one end pointing straight up. I don't think people "dislike" the trailer as much as the numbers indicate, I think they like the idea of contributing to the "most disliked video of all time".
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I've lived in the city for half my life, so I don't own a car. Dream car would be a matte black 1970 Dodge Charger.
It started with general horror films in high school. My best friend and I would spend the weekends and holidays renting huge amount of horror movies from the video store. I can't actually remember which film it was that was the first zombie movie I saw, but I've seen pretty much every one since.
The one that started the whole Last Stand thing though was 28 days later. The scene at the farm house at night where they're holding out against the zombies, that was the inspiration for the series.
Most of us worked together making games for an advertising agency. I was the first to leave, then the others followed a few years after. We've known each other for about 10 years and worked together for about 6 of those, so we're a pretty well oiled machine at this point.
It's been a Rick out of 10.
Good to hear, but it's not that simple. RPGs are expensive as hell to make, especially with the level of quality that's expected now.
Only to family really, bit of free fuel here and there. My younger brother was putting money into the game without telling me! Had to give it back to him because I felt bad.
Nope! Honestly, when I started doing this I wasn't sure anyone would like my games, let alone give me money for them.
