>the only time Yea Forums created a game was in 2012 >it wasn't even made by Yea Forums, but by Yea Forums >it was only a visual novel (considered by many to not be a game at all) How come we've never been able to harness our creative energy into collaborative projects of any worth? It's not like amateur projects aren't a diamond dozen on other forums. Yeah there's /agdg/ but that's a bunch of silly gooses trying to make games by themselves.
Minecraft and Yandere Sim don't count, they were solo projects.
creating a game is really hard, a VM is pretty much a glorified “choose your own adventure” comic book. The only thing you need is an artists and somebody who understands basic coding. Yea Forums has been creating music for what, 5 years now?
Grayson Ward
Yea Forums can't collaborate, we tried making a Yumme Nikki fangame and it died after a couple months, there's no creative energy here, just losers trying to one-up each other for le epic comeback dopamine rush.
Angel Perez
Too many tards are here now, anyone even attempting it would get shitposted into oblivion, and even if it didn't the tards would latch on and would end up ruining the project. If you tried to make a VN on modern Yea Forums you'd probably have a bunch of cucks that would want ironic "humor" and niggers in it.
Matthew Howard
>Yea Forums has been creating music for what, 5 years now? That's different
Literally the best-selling video game ever made was made by a frequent Yea Forums user and had its grassroots start on Yea Forums from almost the very beginning. >Minecraft doesn't count
>there's /agdg/ but that's a bunch of silly gooses trying to make games by themselves Collaborations are already a massive pain in the dick, you're very unlikely to find any actual professionals willing to work with you through an anonymous weeaboo imageboard populated by teenagers and degenerates. Making a game, even just a visual novel that you can put together in Renpy, is a huge multimedia effort and any creative type is going to want to deliver their vision exactly as they imagine it even if they're unable or unwilling to most of the work. It is a fucking miracle Katawa Shoujo even became presentable never mind actually released and was as good as it is, and even then the team wasn't at all cohesive and professional, they went through well over a dozen people outside of the core five writers (even among them there were rewrites and replacements). They were lucky enough to have passionate, talented and generous people help them. Sebastian Skaf composed the amazing soundtrack by himself, for free. Mike Inel spent a whole year making professional quality animations for the game and routes' intro cutscenes, for free. Tons of artists contributed on sprite work, backgrounds and CGs at every stage of the project, for free. The game is a passion project and labor of love on every level and it'd be a miracle if we ever see anything like it from here again.
I remember playing an RPG Maker game made by Yea Forums where nyanners was a tarantula who lived in your room, and one of the town's background music was the Seinfeld theme. I can't recall its name though.
Austin Jones
Excessive irony is just beyond cringeworthy and it killed this site
We COULD do something like that. OR we could shitpost all day long.
Zachary Wilson
>Yea Forums creates vidya >Yea Forums creates music >Yea Forums creates manga This place doesn't make any sense
Joshua Miller
>How come we've never been able to harness our creative energy into collaborative projects of any worth? Because Yea Forums is a normie site now, and normies generally put their energy to equally stupid and pointless but less autistic endeavors
>collaborative projects of any worth Who decides what has worth? I think Katawa Shoujo is a great "game". It holds value to me, and it's good they won't be able to ruin it with an "official" sequel. There is also Unteralterbach. Sure, that was krautchan, but posters from over there are most certainly also here.
Also, remember any time "we" did any bigger collaborative project, it ruined the site forever. Be it Occupy or the 2016 election. If it ruins the site, it should at least be something worth it.
Matthew Cox
He was and might still be, but even if he was he can't say shit anymore unless his games get stuck with our stigma, which I would really hate to see. He deserves better.
Dylan Cook
Wasnt that /vp/?
Thomas Reed
so what number their general is by now?
Xavier Myers
Yea Forums and /gd/ makes sense
William Young
>normie
Mason Lopez
Well, manga are comics. Even Japanese call them that: コミック
Jonathan Wright
making a video game is far tougher than any other if you're uncoordinated
Joshua Phillips
we have a "hidden" board with its rules' both on its sticky & the main rules page defeating the point of being hidden, by being on the main rule thing
Chase Hall
>How come we've never been able to harness our creative energy most people don't have the slightest idea what creative energy even looks like.
you know how there are people who spend time going outside somewhere to yell on streets with cardboard signs and think they're changing the world? as if that's how the structure of the world works? this is further than that. to have someone else change something existing is easier than bringing something into existence yourself. the vast majority are not even in not even wrong territory. in their heart of hearts they can't tell the difference between making a videogame over years and watching a video analysis of a videogame in 20 minutes. that's why they can do the latter so confidently.
Landon Price
A game is a considerably larger project than music, not saying it's easy making music, but there's a lot more that goes into game development and the moment people on Yea Forums organize something that takes a lot longer than a month to actively work on, it's very likely people lose interest/shitty drama happens that will kill the project for good.
Ayden Martin
>Katawa Shoujo was that fucking long ago Man...good times. Damn good times.
I JUST WANT A GF LIKE RIN GODDAMNITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Cooper Price
>>the only time Yea Forums made a game was 2012
Forgetting something? Maybe a game that was first posted here and asked for feedback? A game that one guy worked on for a long time; continually taking the suggestions, comments, and critiques of Yea Forums to improve his game? A game that - eventually - became one of the biggest, most recognizable pieces of video game culture of the past decade, perhaps of all time?
Man, it's on the tip of my fucking tongue, but I'm too much of a newfag to guess what's behind the spoiler.
Katawa will likely never be replicated, it came from a time where people still believed in Yea Forums and the power of community, look at us now. Oh, I mean the good boards like Yea Forums, Yea Forums was and will always be dogshit so there's nothing to expect from this place
Plenty of stuff has started on Yea Forums, it just doesn't stay Yea Forums. Also it is monstrously difficult to organize a project through Yea Forums alone and these days nobody wants to group up outside of here for fear of drama or whatever. Spoiler alert, coordination is key for a single group project, a full video game isn't something you can easily just slap together with user submissions like a Yea Forums sings.
Brandon Rodriguez
99,99% of anons are (bad) idea guys and when push comes to shove no one can code or draw.
Lincoln Ross
wasn't there a yume nikki fan game being made by people from here? whatever happened to that?
did you even read the post >it was only a visual novel (considered by many to not be a game at all) it says it right there
Joseph Nelson
excellent, that's the only girl who tickles my pickle
Benjamin Cooper
too bad she's gay
Owen Foster
Are you new or something
Jordan Bailey
Still in development but shits going slow. Enough people are dedicated to keeping it going that its unlikely to die out but its a very slow process so far
Dylan Wood
yes, i'm new because i can read
Lincoln Fisher
KS may be weak in writing, but damn if it isn't a masterclass case study of the chemistry of art. The music and the art came together as the second most immersive thing I've ever played, second to the original 2 Thief games.
Brayden Sanders
It's a meme you dip
Gabriel Nguyen
He's calling you new because you don't recognize the single biggest KS meme from when it came out.
It might not have the best writing but fuck me if it didn't completely wreak havoc on my emotions the first month it was out. I've wanted to go through it again so many times but I don't think it'll hit me the same way.
Eli Martinez
glad to see it's still being worked on at least
Ethan Gomez
is that her disability? do you get to fuck the gay out of her?
Parker Garcia
I wouldn't say the writing is weak, I'd only particularly praise Rin's route but nothing in the other routes is stand-out bad (except maybe the drama in Emi's route hinging on Hisao not realizing the most obvious thing in the world but the payoff is worth it), it's more a problem of lack of cohesion/direction which is very understandable considering how it was written. Like Shizune's route usually gets pointed at as the bad one, but that's because it's a lot more of a slice-of-life comedy-drama thing and the romance (and Shizune) takes a backseat as it goes on. The writing itself is alright, has some of the best comedy scenes in the game, it's just not what people wanted/expected from it.
>I don't think it'll hit me the same way. The music brings it all back every time I hear it. youtube.com/watch?v=X0y7TpJJISg
no she doesn't even have her own route, fucking her is the only choice that matters in the deaf girl's route and it's not even a full sex scene
Leo Campbell
Nope, you fuck her in one of the bad endings because she feels abandoned by her best friend/crush
Bentley Gutierrez
well feuck, into the trash this shit game goes
Daniel Russell
Well I’m a unityfag and I would like to help make one. Really just need to make a thread on /vg/ and then we shitpost ideas until we find one we like. Then I can at least setup the repository and website to get things rolling.
I don’t have time anymore to project manage but I can put in a lot of PRs
David Stewart
imagine the smell hahaha
Ayden Flores
the rape in hanako's route is some of the worst and most hamfisted "writing", if it can even be called that, I've ever read
Ryder Diaz
I was helping make a vm and the guy leading it was a total sperg.
He fired me because the artist didn’t like me. Then fired the artist a week later. Still doesn’t have a game 3 years later but somehow gets 300 a month on patreon.
Luis Watson
You are better off not playing the game for that, indeed. The deaf girl's route is absolute total shit, and NTRing her with drills is only good part.
Angel Kelly
making a videogame requires a triple digit iq, which most of the mouth breathers here don't have
Robert Ross
>not understanding social situations >spending countless hours trying to adjust to her wavelength and understand a 10th of what's going through her head It'd be a long hard journey user. It might be worthwhile though. It's funny, Rin's route was the only one I completed. I've never taken the time to go back and complete the other routes.
Coding is honestly the only thing that requires any form of intelligence. The music, art, and story are all tied in through the code.
Oliver Brooks
because none of you faggots can program a game worth shit nor coordinate a project like this
/tg/ has also made at least one game I can think of. Yea Forums makes music, /pol/ makes television, Yea Forums makes video games, etc. No Yea Forums board can ever come together to make the thing that their board is about. The fact that you go to Yea Forums means that you are a huge autist about vidya. You can't cooperate on a video game with a bunch of other game autists, the autism is too strong. Too many disagreements. It's solo or nothing. But you can cooperate with them on anything else you feel like.
Ayden Wood
>year of our lord 2019 >still can't hug misha
Gavin Allen
Risk of rain started in the /agdg/ threads over at /vg/
David Ward
Yea Forums can't collaborate on larger projects anymore. No one actually wants work together on something, and games take a lot of cooperation to get anywhere. There'd just be "ironic" shitposting and stupid drama everywhere. Plus most people here are idea guys who can't actually draw or code or anything like that.
