Hi Jeremy and all, While there are some out here with some pretty strong feelings against a side-scroller, despite what I said earlier, I do have plans to do as good a job as I can on the new side-scroller. I don't plan to knock myself out over it, but I always feel a good sense of accomplishment when I complete something that is well done. I would feel bad if I didn't write this new side-scroller with the best of my abilities. Yes, I know doing something like this is hard when I am not fully committed to the project, but if I do a good job the sense of accomplishment and a job well done will be over whelming. It is like anything in life where you know you have to do it for the greater good. Sometimes you have to keep your chin up, get it done, and then move on with life. You can choose to do the job poorly or with your best. Either way the results of the poor job or the results of the good job is something yew have to live with for the rest of your life. If I just put something out there without doing a good job USA Games will get a bad reputation of doing shotty or crappy work even though the reason was do to outside pressures to deliver or else. Just because there is pressure to complete a side-scroller doesn't give me the right to deliver a crappy product. Aside from the disagreement over weather a side-scroller or 3D is the better product even if it is a side-scroller I should do my best to make it enjoyable, replayable, and as error free as possible. If I just slap a few lines of code together to satisfy my obligations it will not look good for the quality of work I can do or would do were circumstances different. The new side-scroller should be a sample of the kind of programming I can do and will do in the future. Finally, for those of you interested in the 3D Tomb Hunter games. Don't worry or argue about it. I can't promise when, but I have every intention of completing Genesis 3D and producing more games with the 3D FPS design aspect. If Sarah, Charles, Michael, or whoever doesn't like those games they are under no obligation to purchase them. However, they did purchase a side-scroller from me and I am under an obligation to deliver a product of that type. Even though I can't deliver the same game they ordered I should at least deliver a game of a similar type. You can agree, disagree, but that isn't changing the basic fact I have decided to honor the side-scroller request for the primary fact I made a promise to the community to make at least one game of that genre and type. Maybe for some of you promises don't mean much, but they mean quite a lot to me. A man's word has to be good, or he will never be respected, trusted, or treated with general respect and as a mature adult. I would like to use my marage as an example here if I may. Almost from the beginning my wife and I have had all kinds of marital difficulties. We have had arguments, a separation, disagreements that lasted weeks, and various other problems I wish not to disclose publically. In the end the glue that has held us together for the last five years despite the various issues, disagreements, and problems was we both made a promise. The only thing that really has held us together is a determination to honor our vows and do right by them. To be honest if I had it all to do over again I would not have gotten married, but that doesn't change the fact I did get married and made a promise I should try every effort to keep. Bottom line if you are really wondering why I am listening to Michael, Charles, and Sarah, etc it is if I make a promise I am accountable to it. Some people, a game developer we shall leave nameless, made all kinds of promises he did not keep. Sometimes I have been trapped by the same kind of promises. However, in looking back on it the lesson I have learned from all of this is don't make a promise you can't keep. If you make the promise you have to try and keep it the best way you can. No, I can't deliver Montezuma's Revenge, but I can still deliver a side-scroller with a treasure hunting theme. Since I didn't break the promise I made through any fault of my own I need to update my promise with something as close to the original. Wishing others bad luck, cussing them out, flaming, really solves nothing. Let us be reasonable and try and take this one day at a time shall we?
Jeremy Gilley wrote: > I hope that this new sidescroller will be the most crappiest game that you > have ever played. > thanks a lot. > --- 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]
