"Do it right or don't do it."

We have a guy here who thinks that students should never make anything ever because it's impossible for them to produce something of professional, industry veteran quality. I guess that's the end of game artists, folks.

I think the animation complaints I keep seeing here are unreasonable. I think the students deserve constructive criticism, but animation is a long and difficult process that artists make entire careers out of doing. Players are accustomed to seeing such high quality rigs all the time because the industry is a…

I mean, it's a seven-week, eight-person student project. You can't expect the high quality assets you would see in a game developed by a team of industry veterans under a massive budget. All things considered, this is quite the feat, and they should be proud.

I always said that it was obvious that Ghosts n' Goblins was an influence on Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Bloodborne; this student project allowed things to come full circle, it looks like.

This illustrates some very real problems with Apple's platform. A platform that requires all software to be approved and distributed through its own channels, which are subject to its own content rules, is purely consumerist in nature and is thus harmful to art. We need to promote open software in the mobile space;…

Focusing on peripheral characters is a smart move for an adaptation/tie-in such as this. Looking forward to it.

It would be pretty cool to see World of Warcraft and a hypothetical Warcraft IV exist concurrently and feed into eachother. I think Blizzard treating WoW as an evolving platform as opposed to merely one entry in a series is a smart move; while I don't currently subscribe to the game nor do I have any immediate plans…

Except that's not what "cultural Marxism" means and if you use the term "cultural Marxism" without the context of someone such as Gramsci's body of work then you are most likely a paranoid conspiracy theorist loon.

It will be, but not in the form of GamerGate. That hashtag will not be trending in 2015.

GamerGate is undoing years of work creators and scholars alike have toiled in order to bring video games to the wider culture. GamerGate will not change anything in journalism, aside from encouraging mainstream media to continue stereotyping video games as trivial playthings and those who play them as insecure…

I'm hoping this mess comes to a close soon. Even if some proponents of the hashtag mean well, it is ultimately, on a macroscopic scale, doing far more harm than good to the reputation of video games in the eyes of the mainstream, undoing decades of work video game creators and scholars alike have toiled in hopes of…

I know there was an imgur pic floating around claiming the majority of GamerGaters were left-wing due to political compass results, but it was ultimately useless as evidence because the political compass is not a valid assessment of an individual's political tendency (Results typically skew toward the libertarian left…

Don't you mean "because sure, *rye* not?"

>gets called out on how hoping for people to lose their jobs and a community-valued local business to be shut down for using another entity's IP in a harmless way that neither competes with nor harms the profit potential of said entity is extreme, hyperbolic bullshit

Fountain City Coffee features local artwork on their walls, if I remember correctly, so I don't see your point. Also, this is a *menu*, not mounting space for a painting.

>implying the artists working for the Nintendo corporation are going to starve because some small, locally-owned coffee shop that Nintendo would have never licensed their IP to to begin with decided the college-aged customers who frequent the shop would find Zelda references on their menu amusing

Right, let's hope for plenty of people losing their jobs and a beloved local coffee shop being put out of business to make way for yet another Starbucks.

This was the coffee shop where me and fellow programmers planned and worked on the game we were making for our software engineering term project in college.

And that's the problem with the gaming community.

Bloodborne?