I’ve worked on a mobile game that took about 5 years and a lot of the time is spent prototyping, soft launching, and re-evaluating. The game that was shipped took 13 months to build.

Soulstice 

I read somewhere that they mentioned it’s a modder’s paradise so I feel it’s pretty safe to assume.

I think in Britain, that means “Okay”. It’s unfortunate that it’s been co-opted by racists here in USA.

Here’s the actual Gameplay reveal:

Sure, and damage control, in this instance isn’t necessarily bad, right? “We messed up, here is what you want.” seems like an okay sentiment?

At 6PM EST, people improvise some comedy and someone draws the entire thing in real time. It happens every weekend and it’s glorious.

To be honest, I’ve never played it but if they add human NPCs to the game and it feels a little like the populus of Fallout 4, I’m investing in this game.

This was made by the same person who made “Alice and Kev”, a story told through The Sims 3. I’m glad they are still doing narrative exploration in The Sims franchise. :)

What’s cool to me is that they don’t fade out, they come to an orchestral conclusion, which is harder to pull off I believe.

My most embarrassing story:
I went to Game Developer’s Conference with my mom. I saw Warren Spektor, so I mentioned how much I was a fan. My mom decided to run over there and do all my gushing for me. “Spektor Warren! My daughter is the biggest fan of yours! Will you get her a job? Take a picture with her please!”

Player interaction is very limited in No Man’s Sky right now. At the moment, multiplayer is limited to seeing others as a ball of light: uninteractable. Spaceships and Guns exist, but they have no effect. This is subject to change!

It kinda does now? As in, you can see other players’ presence, which means you can race them and explore a planet together, but you can’t like... fly around together or anything.

2 years for a game like Shenmue with their budget is nothing.

A/B testing with IAP is so incredibly common, they have third party software packages with Unity3D integration. It’s great features for larger developers who want to know how much / how often users will pay in a FTP model.

Maybe for the penguin, there are a lot of people who want every time they decimate another player, they hold up the penguin and say awkward...
Maybe there are a lot of Batman fans and they wanted to pretend to be the popular super villain as they bankrupt other players.
Maybe there are a lot of people who find Penguins…

I voted for the rubber duck because I am a programmer and I’m conditioned to think through problems better when I see a rubber duck.

Subnatica had a team of 20 people and was incredibly less ambitious.

Batman and Robin?

I don’t disagree with the sand-box part, but Multiplayer experiences like that are exponentially harder to develop and much more expensive to maintain. Hello Games is too small for such an endeavor.