Yo Peter and Jack and the dev team! Let's jam!

There's also Jamie that we rarely see. He works as a technical designer...What's he up to lately?

Janeway!

Lol. I don't remember who made me watch that movie but when I do I'll have to come up with some sort of retaliation.

From Steam thread: "This weeks update video - Delayed"



Right... Peter is dyslexic... We know that by now.
And frankly this 'excuse' is getting grating.

Last I checked Peter isn't some snowflake - he's not unique here.
Just going off of the boards there are countless of other users that are dyslexic.
And if you do a bit of research you'll find more than enough industry professionals that cope with similar or more serious issues themselves.


We've already pointed out that we don't really care what shape the interactions take. That we just want solid answers and results to back them up.
So what value does putting so damned much emphasis on Peter's dyslexia?
Its like they did at the start of Godus by continuously pointing out that Godus is still in beta/early development.
Instead of focusing on showing results, they used it as an excuse, as a shield, to get away with NOT showing results.

They key to getting a succesful game on the market is getting the right core features and a decent game to the correct audience.
Not continuously coming up with reasons why you can NOT do so.
Either use methods that 'work', circumventing the limitations of your team.
Or use different people to work with for that particular field or task.
If Peter isn't the most suitable person to do the talking - then have someone write him a script to keep to or whatever.
Or you know, have someone else that isn't as impeded do the talking.

If Peter insists on taking the spotlights, then stop giving out excuses and reasons why you CAN'T do something - and simply find things you CAN do to show results.
Just work with it... Its what everyone else has to do....

Its still a duck though... He may name it differently - but its still a duck and its not fooling anyone.

Does anyone else feel like it's not very indie like to be jet setting around the planet? Shouldn't he be spending time in the office, you know, designing the pc version of GODUS? I think peter acts like he still works for a studio even though he proclaims to want to be indie.

I had that thought as well. I wonder if that is part of the problem. He comes up with these ideas while on a plane. Walks into the office and is "OK I just thought of this. I want a giant ark in the game now. Stop fixing this and that and make me an Ark." and he wonders out for another trip and comes back the ark is half finished. "How is the ark? half finished. Good push it out and come back later as I watched Yellow Submarine on the airplane and I want this big purple meenies in now. Start on them. What are they going to do? Ummmm be mean of course! No those other guys aren't mean they are happy people and the player just has not made their people as happy. meenies will kill their followers not leading them away and that is totally diffrent then leading them away. Well I am off to another press event"

Would it be possible for someone to transcribe this or give the long and the short of it? Sorry if this is a big ask but every time I hear either of their voices I want to break something

I'll give a basic summary having just listened to it.
Jack appears to have an inability to read the questions, and I personally think few of the actual questions asked were answered, even by PM who spent a chunk of time tell Jack he should have been a politician because HE (Jack) was being vague/avoiding answering.

J) 1) Overall game play
J) i) How will we thoroughly remove free to play mechanisms from the pc version.

PM) Interesting point there are wait timers in many games. My plan is to give the community the power to remove those timers completely. We are part way through implementing changing everything in the game. There are 3 sides to this to give the community the power to do.
i) Change the balance files to just throw away all the wait timers, speed the game up slow the game down and pretty much change the balance as much as you want.
ii) secondly is the ability to do some scripting in LUA, because a lot of the functionality of the game can be controlled through very simple lua coding - if you don't know lua its a reasonably simple language (http://www.lua.org/), you can screw the whole thing up but you could conceivably change the game from a god game to a shoot them up, and thirdly
iii) and perhaps most challenging of all because our map generation tools are a bit primitive - is the ability to change the maps.
Now all of that takes time to do, we now have it in a version we can change balance/maps, but if we were just to throw it out to you people, you would find that it is very primitive. I really want this to be through steamworks so that you can publish all of the changes that you make - that is an extra little overhead to it. So we are trying to find time in people's schedules to actually do that at the moment. There we go, answered question.

J) Number two

PM) Number two

J) Right

PM) How many have we got?

J) We've got quite a few, I think we will break this down into 3 episodes

PM) My ambition is to answer every question in just a little bit longer than the previous one.

J) That was roughly 4 minute, no that cannot be right, 2 and a half 3 minutes that one so this one has to be 3 minutes.