Animation Lead on Wanderstop! She/Her & Transgenderrific! Past: Radial Games, Gaslamp Games
"Fidelity is an endless expense spiral with no real value other than selling video cards and consoles" - yeah absolutely
"We need to fix this so we can make forever games filled with endless filler tier content, studies show it's what audiences want" - uhhhh hmmmmm I don't think this is it actually i don't think this is a good outcome
The fine art of pallet swap enemies in RPGs to save on asset expenses while exploring similar mechanical space
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This season's grey goo is orange
I love me some art made based off studies and research!
But seriously, I am glad devs are realizing they're just making free commercials for graphics card companies.
A "forever" game doesn't necessarily require forever development or filler. I think the Roguelite genre is a good example of asset reuse leading to significantly more replayability without resulting in filler.
I'm thinking about the development effort that went into creating randomizers in older games--a relatively small effort that added tons of life to these games without adding soulless filler.
That's not really the point he's making in the actual video. In the video he's positioning both forever games and fidelity as reasons that game development time has become so bloated - here he's just saying that while there is market research somewhat justifying it for forever games, there isn't for hyper fidelity. He's not saying forever games are the good thing that should exist.
