Topic: Did anyone ever become a professional game designer? (Read 1629 times)

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Umm, was designer for an online moba game, which kinda poofed into obscurity. Nowadays I'm mostly illustrating things, though sometimes I poke my nose into designer's business. 
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I'm working on Barkley 2 as. we. speak.
 
bort and his bro bhroom are teleconferencing with Frankie about the gun's fusion system right now. I'm in the background scripting. Barkley 2 is the full-time job of me, bort, bhroom and Frankie and we've got a lot of other people who are working on it part time like Bisse, offal, laz, Konix, Hundley, probably a few more!!! Dada and Cliff are doing media and website stuff for the game too.
 
Frankie and Konix have both worked as contractors on DS games. GZ has released several commercial games that Konix, Hundley and I have worked on and I've done freelance music for other commercial games. CBlockDis, who used to be a mod of the music forum, also does music for commercial games. I think jmickle has too? Oh yeah, I forgot Eternal |3lue does art for games I think. Probably Chainer too. The GW guy who will go furthest is swordofkings aka umathefurry. . . . . . .
 
There's a significant amount of GW people who are also Poppenkast, which is like the indie game dev Illuminati... Frankie, Bisse, im9today, thernz, laz, cactus, probably more. . . . .
Last Edit: June 06, 2013, 08:53:12 am by Sludgelord
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ooooh can I have a cameo
 
I wanna cameo
 
I hope you make lots of money and buy a bugatti and put a snes in it

is charles barkley gonna do a voice over
 
gimme the scoop, raisin brand I want 2 scoops
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oh shit yeah i did music for games i forgot about that (also i'm poppenkast)
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Right now I'm putting together a quick little physical zine of goblet grotto supplement feelie materials + maybe a disk to hock at some local DIY thing... if it comes together it will be my first lurching step into the terrifying morass plains of any kind of commercial transaction at all...
 
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Can you take some pics of it for us
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Well, if you *MUST* know... Here's a little photo of me, World-Class Game Dev B.I.O.L.I.L.I.T.H. "chilling" with the best designers out there!
 

 
You might just say I'm a big deal. Hm? No, I think you're all wrong. Anyway, watch out for my latest game, "Gore Heads VII". Hope you're all having fun... Not! Sayonara, suckers!
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good pic, good beard
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
don't take offense to beard. i've got one myself. it doesn't say anything about ya.
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Well, if you *MUST* know... Here's a little photo of me, World-Class Game Dev B.I.O.L.I.L.I.T.H. "chilling" with the best designers out there!
 
marvellous! beautiful! truly a "snapshot from the front" of our new vanguard of games --  a beachhead from which to launch strikes upon another world!
 
 
Can you take some pics of it for us
 
yeah!
 


Last Edit: June 12, 2013, 06:21:45 pm by thecatamites
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gargonherd you are stylish and I like apartment game!
 
thecatamites how much money would it take to convince you to send one of those bad boys overseas?  I probably do not have enough but I am curious anyways
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it shouldn't cost too much actually. and it looks like you outdid yourself i would buy one of them
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citation: i bought the shrek zine from notorious american kc green and it cost me $7 including shipping (to uk)
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yeah these were fairly cheap to do + paypal/currency rates would eat up anything you'd send me so they'll hopefully just be free for any internet pals :o) but i dunno how much shipping is or how many i'll have left over. i can give update in 2 weeks!
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good pic, good beard
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
don't take offense to beard. i've got one myself. it doesn't say anything about ya.
 
it's not my beard. the beard belongs to phil fish. i'm just the pretty face!
 
also i am extremely glad to see how yr grotto pak came out stephen :o lookin good...
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yeah these were fairly cheap to do + paypal/currency rates would eat up anything you'd send me so they'll hopefully just be free for any internet pals :o) but i dunno how much shipping is or how many i'll have left over. i can give update in 2 weeks!
 
 
YES
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i,m going to die if that goblet grotto book doesn't make it across the "pond" and into my gritty mittens STAT. how much you want cata-chan. ill double it
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i bid 7 goblets on the mystic tome
 
   
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not at all, i stuck with writing though.  made a few Dungeons and Dragons modules, a handful of short stories, and i've been working on a science fiction story for... well, forever.
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i don't know about professional but i do make 'games' to pay the bills... i guess i figured that even if you have to waste a lot of your life on the tedious and possibly abhorrent aspect of 'polishing stuff or making it more accessible to a player', it is still a more palatable way of feeding my family than any other? i also do music as secondary thing to cleanse the palette, and though it's still sometimes for commercial use, the sentiment behind it isn't usually so concerned with that, hopefully. well, I guess there's an element of 'making a good / loud / clean' mixdown which is influenced somewhat by the fact that it may need to be sold, or something?  actually, it's all a weird blurry line to me these days. i like to think i still believe in only making exactly what you fancy, though, and not changing any fundamentals because of commercial concerns...  whether that ends up being true, i just don't know.