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Postmortem: Team Meat's Super Meat Boy
- creativityhurts 14y agoYou can follow their development story in Indie Game: The Movie. Very interesting, especially if you're new to the indie game scene.
- 89a 14y agoOnly watch if you can stomach Edmund McMillen coming across as a massive douche
- creativityhurts 14y agoI wouldn't say massive douche but there were a few things that I didn't like about their attitude. But if you go past that the storyline is pretty ok and the movie overall, which features a few other game developers is actually worth watching.
- htmltablesrules 14y agoIf there were more in-depth documentaries about programmers, you would probably find the same types of personalities reign supreme...emotional, introverted, weird. If you consider yourself "normal" & "emotionally stable", then you probably aren't a very creative programmer.
- anthonyb 14y ago"A massive douche"? You'll have to explain that one, because I've watched it, and he didn't appear "douchey" to me at all.
- cjenkins 14y agoAre you sure you're not thinking of Phil Fish? That seems much more likely to me.
- jpxxx 14y agoGreat little game. Excruciatingly difficult but feels like a work of joy.
- mdonahoe 14y ago"Either way, by far the biggest mistake we made during SMB's development was killing ourselves to get into a promotion we would gain basically nothing from." After suffering through something similar, I will never work for a marketing deadline again. Deadlines are useful, but I have yet to see a marketing deadline live up to the promise.
- d0de 14y agoI'd be curious to get the opinion of others on whether or not this was a mistake given the information they had at the time. It's pretty useless to say "our biggest mistake was x because it turned out to be a huge failure". I'm not interested in hearing someone say "my biggest mistake was eating vegetables every day because I ended up choking on a piece of broccoli".
- bootload 14y ago"... Tommy and I went out that day in search of the most ridiculous sweater vests we could find, broke into Sears Photos and used their setup to take what would become our team headshots. I believe we also submitted some totally ridiculous dev bio to Nintendo that was printed in their press release alongside our photo. ..." Love this. The Meatboy team even managed to enrage 'Peta' (ultra right wing Vegans) by gaming their message boards (link below). Enraged Peta put out their own version of Meat Boy, "Tofu Boy" ~ http://features.peta.org/super-meat-boy-parody/meet.aspx http://features.peta.org/super-meat-boy-parody/meet.aspx So meatboy team put out unlockable 'Tofu boy' character ~ http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2010/12/02/super-meat-boy-honors-peta-with-unlockable-character/ http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2010/12/02/super-meat-boy-hon... The playfulness in this game is addictive and you can see this in the creators.
- fallous 14y agoPurely a semantic aside but how do you characterize PETA as "ultra right wing" in any meaningful definition of that political term?
- cocoflunchy 14y agoOne-page version: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134717/postmortem_team_meats_super_meat_.php?print=1 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134717/postmortem_team...
- csmatt 14y agoInteresting. I was just watching a documentary on Netflix about them. It was a bit depressing. I really felt for them :/
- envex 14y agoIndie Game: The Movie - http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/ http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/ It's a great documentary!