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Message: 5586
Author: Alexandra
Date: 25/02/2006
Subject: Re: UMM: "The game release is just abysmal"
Wow, it's sad that so many people seem to hate most of our remakes.
But people will have their opinions. Igor, you should really just make
what /you/ want to make and not worry what other people think too
much. I thought We Pretty was a pile of crap when I first played it,
especially when I got to the second screen and it was a plain green
ground with a plain blue sky and a huge yellow man floating in the air :)
But I stuck with it and it ended up changing the way I thought and
inspiring me to make Strangel - probably a game you wouldn't like
either. As someone pointed out on WoS I think, we become fans of the
/engine/ and it's quirks. Sorta like with lovers, the faults become
beautiful in themselves.
I can see why people don't like the quirky features. There is a very
real problem here because we tend to enjoy games which are difficult
and require knowledge of the game-engine, and the general MM/JSW fan
simply remembers collecting objects, crumbling floors and robots.
In a way I think it's good to hear this piece of opinion on our scene,
even if I don't aggree with it. I'm still shocked. I thought UMM was
beautiful. At places Igor pushed the engine about twice as far as I
would dare to because it does start to get a little risque in places.
The lift scene in the intro (going down the different floors) wasn't
very convincing to me but I figured on something like this /you have
to meet the author halfway or not at all/.
People will have their opinions. I will carry on doing what I love
doing and Igor should do the same. Just rest assured that /I/ was
inspired very much by UMM and some of the principles in it. Perhaps
from a technical and atmospheric point of view the most but still,
that's very worthwhile to me.
I will say this though, and I may have said it before, the MM/JSW
scene needs a few more layman-accessible games which involve no expert
shenanigans at all. Needs it.
Sendy
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