Hi Tom I'm right with you on this.
You actually don't have to do this at all, so I think folks should be bloody well thankful that there is someone willing to give up time to complete a task. And then, once the game is out, be prepared to be told you're charging too much money. I think I'd be inclined to say, sod it, go and design your own games, my family is much more important. Keep up teh good har dwork. Darren ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] What's Ahead For MOTA Beta 2. > Hi Darren, > Oh, how I wish it was that simple. I still feel I owe > everyone who paid > for the game something, but I am at a cross roads between > doing what I > want and what others want. Frankly, the old side-scroller > was > suffocating my intellectual and creative desires that are > so important > to game writing. If you smother the authors creativity and > desire to > write the game the game will show its authors lack of > desire to create > it. I love programming for the very fact I can be > creative, but a game > like Montezuma's Return made me feel like a kid forced to > copy his > spelling words 500 times during recess. Boring, > uninteresting, work for > the purpose of punishment. That is really how I was > starting to feel > towards the end. > Nobody on this list knows how many times I failed to watch > a movie with > my family because I was working on the game. Nobody knows > I haven't > played my guitar in six months because most free time has > been spent on > that darn game. Most people don't know I gave up reading > time to work on > that game. Frankly, I pored my heart and soul into getting > it done, and > then I was forced to take it down by the copyright holders > of the > Montezuma's Revenge and Montezuma's Return copyright > holders. How in the > heck would you feel? Frankly I am down right depressed and > upset about it. > If it were my choice to do all over again I would tell > James North to > keep his games, they are his problem, and let him deal > with it. I would > now be working on my own games, in my own free time, when > I felt like it > and not trying to meet some schedule or do date. > > > > > > Darren H wrote: >> Or perhaps Tom should just forget it all together and >> spend >> his time doing something he wants to do. >> >> Sorry guys and gals, there's more important things to >> worry >> about in life. >> >> Darren >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the > web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the > management of the list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
