Hi Lindsay,
Unfortunately I have indeed had to close the doors on X-Sight.
I did send a message about this in December, but to recap, the whole project
was doomed to failure from the start. My inexperience in audiogame
development caused a complete downward chain reaction. I didn't invest half
enough money into the project, our first game was marketed badly for US
based customers which caused a slight scandal, we didn't have half the
materials we needed which meant that a lot of our games were substandard and
a lot of my team members left at this point when they realised it was coming
to nothing.
By 2013 it was all left to me, which meant that I felt under immense
pressure to get the ball rolling, and my pride and determination was my
undoing. Yet another scandal arose over a non-gaming project, the funds were
exhausted, and my marriage was at breaking point.
Since the closure, I have had time to sit back and play a lot of newer
audiogames such as Entombed, Swamp, and the Bokurano Daibouken series to
name a few, most of which are actually free. Based on these experiences,
even if I were to begin development again at some point, my ideas for games
would probably seem trivial, and I haven't yet the experience of programming
bigger games in those styles to be able to promise anything substantial, let
alone marketable. Myself, now, I personally feel like I'm part of an older
generation of developers struggling to keep up with both current technology
and gameplay styles and expectations, so I'm handing the ball to the more
confident, younger generation who seem to have a lot going for them. It
saddens me, but all things must come to an end, and unfortunately, I feel
like my time developing games is done, unless I work on a collaborative
effort.
Kind regards,
Damien.
-----Original Message-----
From: Lindsay Cowell
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 4:52 PM
To: gamers@audyssey.org
Subject: [Audyssey] X-Sight interactive gone?
Has X-sight interactive gone, I can't get on the site?
Lindsay Cowell
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