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Daikatana, Duke Nukem Forever, Broken Age, Star Citizen... Even experienced industry professionals need some guidance and supervision. Those who don't know hi

Daikatana, Duke Nukem Forever, Broken Age, Star Citizen... Even experienced industry professionals need some guidance and supervision. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

soneca 8y ago
Why Broken Age is in that group? I think it had a much lower expectation to start with, but also the delay to launch wasnt absurd and the end product is quite good in my opinion. Also, it was a comercial success for its niche.
- kalcode 8y ago
  Broken Age from start to finish took less than three years to make and went over-budget but still managed to complete the game by creating the two parts into chapters to get early sales outside the original kickstarters. People who have never managed or been part of managing big projects with deadlines don't understand that. They see the above as a failure rather than obstacles that they succeeded in getting over and releasing a moderate to good game.
- Kurtz79 8y ago
  The game was largely overfunded, and yet they had to rely on splitting the game in two acts and rely on the sales from the first to fund additional development. I agree that among the titles I mentioned is the less disastrous, but is still an example of developers being given a large amount of money and almost free reigns, and delivering something late and below expectations (I played the game as well, it was decent but really not that remarkable).
  - soneca 8y ago
    It was overfunded on Kickstarter, but then they - very transparently - expanded the scope of the game. They delivered a documentary series, with a high production quality, while they were developing the game that was incredible to follow. The communication through the forum during the development was excellent, transparent and informative. I was very hyped about the game and it was not below my expectations. I enjoyed every minute of playing. It is not the best point-and-click adventure of all times if that was your expectation. I believe it is nonsense to put in this list as well as comparing to the situation of the OP
BlackLotus89 8y ago
That's a bad example list. Daikatana was done by an industry veteran who revolutionized gaming and was an attempt to try something new. Duke Nukem Forever is the butt of all jokes, but the end result you are talking about is a thrown together piece of shit that had nothing to do with the original and nothing with the article. Broken Age was also done by veterans and even thought it wasn't what was expected it was a decent game. Star Citizen I fon't know much about and since it isn't released yet I wont comment on it Anyway the article is about giving students who didn't do anything but had an "award winning" idea free reign about money and clear goal without monitoring them. They then played counter strike in 600$ gaming chairs. There is a documentary of the making off of broken age and they didn't just fuck around with the money, so most of your examples probably don't fit at all

Daikatana, Duke Nukem Forever, Broken Age, Star Citizen... Even experienced industry professionals need some guidance and supervision. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

soneca 8y ago

Why Broken Age is in that group? I think it had a much lower expectation to start with, but also the delay to launch wasnt absurd and the end product is quite good in my opinion. Also, it was a comercial success for its niche.

kalcode 8y ago
Broken Age from start to finish took less than three years to make and went over-budget but still managed to complete the game by creating the two parts into chapters to get early sales outside the original kickstarters. People who have never managed or been part of managing big projects with deadlines don't understand that. They see the above as a failure rather than obstacles that they succeeded in getting over and releasing a moderate to good game.
Kurtz79 8y ago
The game was largely overfunded, and yet they had to rely on splitting the game in two acts and rely on the sales from the first to fund additional development. I agree that among the titles I mentioned is the less disastrous, but is still an example of developers being given a large amount of money and almost free reigns, and delivering something late and below expectations (I played the game as well, it was decent but really not that remarkable).
- soneca 8y ago
  It was overfunded on Kickstarter, but then they - very transparently - expanded the scope of the game. They delivered a documentary series, with a high production quality, while they were developing the game that was incredible to follow. The communication through the forum during the development was excellent, transparent and informative. I was very hyped about the game and it was not below my expectations. I enjoyed every minute of playing. It is not the best point-and-click adventure of all times if that was your expectation. I believe it is nonsense to put in this list as well as comparing to the situation of the OP

BlackLotus89 8y ago

That's a bad example list. Daikatana was done by an industry veteran who revolutionized gaming and was an attempt to try something new. Duke Nukem Forever is the butt of all jokes, but the end result you are talking about is a thrown together piece of shit that had nothing to do with the original and nothing with the article. Broken Age was also done by veterans and even thought it wasn't what was expected it was a decent game. Star Citizen I fon't know much about and since it isn't released yet I wont comment on it Anyway the article is about giving students who didn't do anything but had an "award winning" idea free reign about money and clear goal without monitoring them. They then played counter strike in 600$ gaming chairs. There is a documentary of the making off of broken age and they didn't just fuck around with the money, so most of your examples probably don't fit at all