WA3 Update Thread

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 6:47 pm

Master Wonder Mage wrote:Besides, Game Maker is not as hard as a "real" programming language.

GML is a bit easier than PHP, and PHP is one of the easiest language in the programming language field.

MyNameIsKooky · Post by **MyNameIsKooky** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 6:54 pm

jdl wrote:
MyNameIsKooky wrote:
gameboy991 wrote:I never said he wasn't working on it.
If he was, he'd have something to show by now.
Just because you're developing a game doesn't mean you have to post pictures all the time.

I know that, but he said right in the first post that he would post a picture every week.

jdl wrote:because he hasn't gotten the time for it

We've already gone over this...

tyteen4a03 wrote:
Master Wonder Mage wrote:Besides, Game Maker is not as hard as a "real" programming language.
GML is a bit easier than PHP, and PHP is one of the easiest language in the programming language field.

And your point is...?

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 7:20 pm

That wasn't supposed to be a point. *shot*

~xpr'd~ · Post by **~xpr'd~** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 7:35 pm

Has anyone thought about the actual company? This is highly unlikely, but remember how Patrick said that the company was mostly just a group of people making a game and he traveled all over the place?
What if the company's in trouble financially-wise? I doubt that it's Patrick doing the level design, graphics, modelling, etc. all by himself, so what if other people have been having life issues?

MyNameIsKooky · Post by **MyNameIsKooky** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 7:42 pm

~xpr'd~ wrote:Has anyone thought about the actual company? This is highly unlikely, but remember how Patrick said that the company was mostly just a group of people making a game and he traveled all over the place?
What if the company's in trouble financially-wise? I doubt that it's Patrick doing the level design, graphics, modelling, etc. all by himself, so what if other people have been having life issues?

A while back, Patrick said he was the "one-man band" behind Midnight Synergy. I think that the "traveling around the world" thing was a joke, along with his employees inhaling helium to perform the voices of Stinky and Loof.

Master Wonder Mage · Post by **Master Wonder Mage** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:18 pm

Patrick does all the design and code. Other people do music, models, and other things like that.

boywhoflies · Post by **boywhoflies** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:08 pm

MyNameIsKooky wrote:
tyteen4a03 wrote:
Master Wonder Mage wrote:Besides, Game Maker is not as hard as a "real" programming language.
GML is a bit easier than PHP, and PHP is one of the easiest language in the programming language field.
And your point is...?

I'm guessing that GML would be eazyer to bugfix with. -nothing-

Edit:Eazyer, not eazy. Don't be offended by that. :3

MyNameIsKooky · Post by **MyNameIsKooky** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:29 pm

boywhoflies wrote:
MyNameIsKooky wrote:
tyteen4a03 wrote:
Master Wonder Mage wrote:Besides, Game Maker is not as hard as a "real" programming language.
GML is a bit easier than PHP, and PHP is one of the easiest language in the programming language field.
And your point is...?
I'm guessing that GML would be eazyer to bugfix with. -nothing-

So basically Master Wonder Mage was trying to say it would take Midnight Synergy several weeks to fix a single bug. derp

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:09 pm

~xpr'd~ wrote:Has anyone thought about the actual company? This is highly unlikely, but remember how Patrick said that the company was mostly just a group of people making a game and he traveled all over the place?
What if the company's in trouble financially-wise? I doubt that it's Patrick doing the level design, graphics, modelling, etc. all by himself, so what if other people have been having life issues?

It's a joke. Patrick's an indie dev.

~xpr'd~ · Post by **~xpr'd~** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:28 pm

Even if it was just him, at least 21% of my point remains valid. x3

gameboy991 · Post by **gameboy991** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:23 pm

~xpr'd~ wrote:Even if it was just him, at least 21% of my point remains valid. x3

In that case, might I remind you all of this?

gameboy991 wrote:Here's an idea: Has anyone considered a fund raiser of some sort???

I just bought MOFI recently, and $6.99 (in U.S. dollars) isn't a whole lot.

Obviously, if Patrick is only making $7 each time a game is sold, and a relatively low number of people know about Wonderland, what are the chances MS's funding will fall short if it hasn't already?

Pretty high, I assume.

DEEMAN223344 · Post by **DEEMAN223344** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:35 pm

The $7 was because he constantly has discounts. It's normally $20

Emerald141 · Post by **Emerald141** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:17 am

gameboy991 · Post by **gameboy991** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:22 am

I think one of the reasons he lowered the prices for the games is because he wasn't making that much profit.

As I said, only a considerably low number of people know about Wonderland, let alone play the games.

DEEMAN223344 · Post by **DEEMAN223344** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:08 pm

gameboy991 wrote:As I said, only a considerably low number of people know about Wonderland, let alone play the games.

People say Earthbound is SOO underrated. While I agree to SOME extent, but now it's so underrated that it's overrated - It's almost a meme itself.
If ANY game needs help, it is, as you said, Wonderland.
Which is why I am working on a WA LP, and soon, AND a Earthbound LP.

Olly Poppalis · Post by **Olly Poppalis** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:12 pm

I wish Patrick would just tell us.

DEEMAN223344 · Post by **DEEMAN223344** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:35 pm

Olly Poppalis wrote:I wish Patrick would just tell us.

This.

dig 222 · Post by **dig 222** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:08 pm

DEEMAN223344 wrote:
Olly Poppalis wrote:I wish Patrick would just tell us.
This.

What do you mean?

garirry · Post by **garirry** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:45 pm

dig 222 wrote:
DEEMAN223344 wrote:
Olly Poppalis wrote:I wish Patrick would just tell us.
This.
What do you mean?

I don't know... and I even don't understand all what you all talking about...

boywhoflies · Post by **boywhoflies** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:56 pm

DEEMAN223344 wrote:
Olly Poppalis wrote:I wish Patrick would just tell us.
This.

This.

Emerald141 · Post by **Emerald141** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:10 pm

DEEMAN223344 · Post by **DEEMAN223344** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:15 pm

Emerald141 wrote:365 days is an extremely long time to keep a project on hold, and there comes a point when the 'too busy' assumption just starts looking naive. Not to be a pessimist, but I think we passed that point a few months back, so unless Patrick or someone he knows has contracted a serious illness, I think we can assume that he's choosing not to work on WA3.

Nor is it necessarily the amount of time needed to have obscene amounts of progress. I learned that with AODD. 365 days cannot finish a huge game.
How the heck did MNIK finish FOUR games in 365 days? Because his games are shorter than WA games or my original plans for AODD. ET5 should take about 365 days, and hopefully he won't get stuck for that long.

MyNameIsKooky · Post by **MyNameIsKooky** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:18 pm

DEEMAN223344 wrote:
Emerald141 wrote:365 days is an extremely long time to keep a project on hold, and there comes a point when the 'too busy' assumption just starts looking naive. Not to be a pessimist, but I think we passed that point a few months back, so unless Patrick or someone he knows has contracted a serious illness, I think we can assume that he's choosing not to work on WA3.
Nor is it necessarily the amount of time needed to have obscene amounts of progress. I learned that with AODD. 365 days cannot finish a huge game.

No one ever said anything about WA3 being finished in only 365 days. It's just that there's been no evidence of any progress for 365 days.

DEEMAN223344 · Post by **DEEMAN223344** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:39 pm

I know that, MNIK.
I was just bringing up a somehow related point.

Post by **tyteen4a03** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 4:48 am

MyNameIsKooky wrote:No one ever said anything about WA3 being finished in only 365 days. It's just that there's been no evidence of any progress for 365 days.

It is related to the idiom of "Rome was not built in a day."

DEEMAN223344 · Post by **DEEMAN223344** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 1:53 pm

tyteen4a03 wrote:
MyNameIsKooky wrote:No one ever said anything about WA3 being finished in only 365 days. It's just that there's been no evidence of any progress for 365 days.
It is related to the idiom of "Rome was not built in a day."

Yes. I am a man of idioms and metaphors, yet no-one on here ever understands me.

Emerald141 · Post by **Emerald141** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 2:05 pm

DEEMAN223344 · Post by **DEEMAN223344** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 3:05 pm

*drops topic*
Let's just either get on topic or let this die.

MyNameIsKooky · Post by **MyNameIsKooky** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 4:34 pm

You just didn't want to admit you didn't know what you were talking about.

And what is there to talk about regarding on-topicness? Nothing's happening.

Emerald141 · Post by **Emerald141** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:28 pm