Is "MDickie" our number one game maker?
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| http://www.mdickie.com/ http://www.cafepress.com/mdickie I've spouted on before about "MDickie" and people have not been too happy. However, he just keeps releasing games. I've always liked his stuff yet a lot of people say they are complete rubbish and ugly looking. I think they are meant to have a sort of cartoony look to them. He seems to have a "halo"-type reputation - someone who other people don't mind saying they don't like - without much reason other than the fact that other people don't like him. He comes across (character-wise) to me as a sort of "ENAY"-type of person. I challenge "MDickie" to post in this thread. I'm genuinely interested in what makes him 'tick'. He's one of the few people that just do 3D games (ie not puzzle games) there must be loads and loads of Blitzers (over the years) that would like to ask him stuff. We must bring "MDickie" back to the forums. |
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| He's probably too busy. I've got respect for anyone who can get product out there. And his 4 games a year beats my current rate by a factor of 10! |
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| I have a lot of respect for him as well. He cranks out games like nobody's business. Inspiring to watch! |
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| He seems to have a "halo"-type reputation - someone who other people don't mind saying they don't like - without much reason other than the fact that other people don't like him. There are plenty of reasons not to like halo.I don't know why some people seem to not like him very much. Personally I'm with John and Warren. He gets the job done, and seems to be doing alright. I guess maybe that's enough to get someone in this crowd on your case. I'm genuinely interested in what makes him 'tick'. If I remember correctly there was an interview with him in one of the old newsletters. Someone might still have a copy lying around. |
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| This is his (or one of his) current projects: http://www.mdickie.com/prev_hardtime.htm |
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| His game designs are always very innovative and interesting. The only "ugly" bit, if you can call it that, is the segmented characters he tends to use but I can understand the reasoning behind that. Some of his games from the demos I have tried are quite entertaining - definetely the most productive 3d Blitzer ever. It would be nice to see him on the forums. |
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| He certainly churns them out, but the 3D look is a bit dated, but hey he probably doesn't have a team of 20 artists and modellers. |
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| Yeh, but I wonder if he intends for his models to have that kind of cartoony look - I am wondering if it is his 'style', rather than the fact he is not a realistic modeller. |
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| MDickies character design has become a Trademark. I wouldnt recommend any changes. The game stories are very innovative. I really enjoyed the Talk Show / Wrestling Game and can see a lot of potential: "Jerry Springer 3D". |
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| I think he should do an 'Urban' game with breakdancing and stuff like that. |
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| Number one in what respect? In terms of numbers of games, I would think GFK was still ahead. In terms of sales, well no disrespect to "The World's Greatest Solo Game Developer" which I believe is how he describes himself, but I think there would be a number of people ahead of him in total revenue. In terms of quality.. I have no idea. He's never written a game that appealed to me. All his games have an underlying style ( not graphical, the style of gameplay ) which doesn't really fit the types of games I want to play. |
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| The World's Greatest Solo Game Developer haha that's great. I presume he means "CURRENT World's Greatest ..." as of course we've had people like Jeff Minter in the past, mind you that's pretty debatable too :-)I've also never played one of his games as they just aren't up my street - so who's street are they up? |
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| From what I can tell they lack the polish a completed game would have. But what can I say really. I haven't released anything -- and probably never will. |
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| Pickford Brothers isnt it? Unless you mean number one game maker in a blitz lang. Mind you there are two of them, so not number one then. Number ones? |
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| Gfk has released quite a few games on the Idigicon label. Is there anyone that has more released games than him? Can we get some numbers? |
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| I've released 10 so far. xMystik has released more, I think. Couldn't put a number on it, though. |
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| > We must bring "MDickie" back to the forums. He's probably too busy making games to waste time posting. > He comes across (character-wise) to me > as a sort of "ENAY"-type of person. He loves Cheese and Paxo stuffing? |
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| ..how many his games is sold anyway?? |
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| I don't know about his sales, I'm just impressed by his output. He certainly gets more done with less resources than 99% of the people who post here. |
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| In fact I have never seen him post here. Maybe that`s because he uses all of his spare time programming. Jason. |
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| Here's the fun facts about this kid. He believes he is better than the 'average' game developer, that's why he won't post here. This is directly from his website's Q&A: Are you the "MDickie" that posts on website forums? No, i haven't been visiting any forums of any kind. Anybody that writes under my name is an impostor... Why don't you post on any game development forums? There's no polite way to answer that question - except to say that i find the inhabitants of the games industry to be very insecure and negative. I'm a positive person, so i have no business being in that environment! Anything i have to offer can be found at this very website... How cute. Guess I'm insecure because I don't churn out leggo men with down syndrome every month using the exact same engine. Oh my bad, friend, I'll get right on that. Maybe after my 5,00000th crappy game clone I can get some self-esteem back! |
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| I think you guys are proving him right. |
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| Guess I'm insecure because I don't churn out leggo men with down syndrome every month lol!(shoulda left it at the 'lego men' part, tho). |
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| Heh, in a review of one of his games on Gametunnel they said his characters had down syndrome, it was far too golden of a quote not to repeat here ;) John - I'm not a bitter guy, and I would never say that about anyone else. I don't consider myself insecure, or negative. But he is one arrogant ass. I consider comments like the one he made so foolish and naive I don't know how to respond to it other than ignoring it (which I have been doing for years) or laughing at it which I did now because quoting that seemed fitting for the topic. Had he not been presumptuous and judgemental, I think he would have found we would have welcomed him with open arms. Many people on this forums post games with worst graphics than his (hard to do I know) and I'm right there to pat them on the back and say "good work!" but if they call themselves the ruler of the gaming universe because they remade pac-man, sorry dude, I have no sympathy for the hardcore reaming they are about to receive. |
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| This is like my telling Sid Myiers that all his games are crap, cos they remind me of each other. MDickie, may or may not have an "attitude", I wouldnt know. But he has definatly written lots of games. And this stupid critism that its the same engine, so what. And as to the quality of the products, Im not going to comment, only those with actual products on sale making money have the right in this context to do that. And then they should concider that its busness and not art. If we are going to "rate" our number one game maker. Then someone needs to say exactly what that means, and then we say who we think it is. We dont go round and attack the character of other peoples selection. @Scot, the text on your page doesnt appear in the right place if you have "Text Size" set higher than medium |
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| Yeah, I'm not trying to start any crap or anything, as I said I'm a pretty laid back guy. He just gets to me sometimes when I see his articles talking about how great he is in places where people with true talent (like Mr. Pickford up there) should be. Yes, it is just my opinion, but sometimes he is plain ol' offense I don't care who you are. H&K - Good call. Thanks for letting me know :) |
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| He just gets to me sometimes when I see his articles talking about how great he is in places where people with true talent (like Mr. Pickford up there) should be. People with genuine talent don't need to 'big themselves up' to everybody else all the time. That's the difference. |
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| > except to say that i find the inhabitants of > the games industry to be very insecure and negative. That's very true, especially of this place, where often your game is pulled to pieces even when you don't post about it, and mostly by people who have no hope of ever making a game themselves. I don't blame the guy for not posting on forums, for one thing it's a good way to save time, imagine how much extra coding people would be able to do instead of waste time on forums such as this. No wonder he churns out games so quickly. I've never met the guy so I couldn't say if he was ignorant or not, but the fact that he regularly makes games and finishes them, whether I've played them or not, is a great achievement. I have respect for anyone who can make and finish a game. |
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| He's definitely an all or nothing, love him or leave him type of person and he knows it. Can't say his games appeal too much in their current form to me but he has my vote for sheer balls and I wish I had half his drive. It'd be a dull universe without people like him out there. He's also right about some of the prickly attitudes in these (and many other) forums. For a one man show this guy is awesome...who else is even close to him? |
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| I always thought that quality was better than quantity. Maybe that`s just me. I`m not knocking his achievements but like others have said calling himself "The World's Greatest Solo Game Developer" is taking it a bit to far. I especially like this part from his site, "Having mastered every single discipline that goes into making a game" (from design and programming through to 2D graphics, 3D graphics, and even music) Ha, jack of all trades master of none springs to mind. Mastered, he must be kidding surely? Jason. |
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| FFS. Such totally undeserved sniping. He's out there doing his own thing in a totally distinctive manner. How many of us can say that? |
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| I'd just leave it John, the world is clearly void of common sense these days. Those that do, do, those that can't, moan, complaint, waste time and wait for the next gen engine. It's just a sign of the times I'm afraid. |
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| Mdickie knows what he is doing. He starts, develops and finishes games. This only leads to more motivation, more productivity and less dreaming. Cut the guy some slack. Learn from him. |
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| Does anyone know what he uses to develop his games? I'm pretty sure it's Blitz3D. I heard mention though that he was using DarkBasic. |
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| Who here can hold up thier hand and say they have completed that many games? |
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| I want a "MDickie" interview. Plus all the source code. |
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| I guess this guy is actually 100% full-time, and making a living from it, which is very different from most here I assume. Consequently he's sticking to a formula he knows works for him, so good luck to him. Personally how he finds the motivation to sit down and code wrestling game after wrestling game is either bordering on the heroic or insane, and I'm not sure which. Depends how well they sell I guess. Yes Puki an interview with the man himself would be interesting. I wonder if he'd answer each question, or if he'd reuse large parts of his previous answer :P And Puki, I did notice it took you a while before you mentioned wanting his source code or models - what's that about? |
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| Jesus - he has a following on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=mdickie&search_sort=&search_category=0&page=1 |
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| I spent a good 5 minutes reading this thread and I feel like I have lost that time forever. Whether the mysterious 'Mdickie' is a good chap or an evil villian really does not concern me. What does concern me is that he probably has cranked out another 20 lines of code during this time period. As you'll notice on this and every other game design forum in existence is the fact that 95% of the "starts" mever have a corresponding "finish" Finishing (REALLY finishing) a game is a commendable accomplishment and anyone who does so has my respect. |
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| THEY ARE DOING PAY PER VIEW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YZpHhO_4d8 http://fedonwrestling.zoomshare.com/ The 'PPV' button. |
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| mdickie rocks ! ... |
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| Unless I've been abducted by a pack of wild badgers in an alternate dimension. I'm pretty sure Matt Dickie did an interview already for Blitz Newsletter. Issue No 10 or 11 I think, you were around here two years ago as well Puki, shame on your for not remembering! :) > Jesus - he has a following on YouTube: That good old Jesus Christ eh? He gets everywhere these days, even in 2000 year old books written by someone else. |
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| lol@enay yeah I remember there was an Mdickie interview a while back ... and I think he came on the forums for a while too at one stage ... mdickie is cool, he's original .... |
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| Just start taking all your ideas to complete prototype form and then release them as finished products and you can do what MDickie does. His games are feature complete but they aren't polished. It is nice that he's found a niche to sell his products to, I'd say that's the most interesting thing about his operation ... how did he find people that buy such under-polished titles? |
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| I want to be like MDickie. |
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| I think that me ("puki"), "Amon", "ENAY" and "MDickie" (with me as the leader) would make a good team. I suggest we all buy a house and live together. It would be like 'The Young Ones'  |
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| what Jeremy said.. |
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| I think mdickie is being a bit tongue in cheek with his declarations of greatness. He has been quite modest at times in his writings. I found his wrestling games ridiculous, but created with enough passion to keep me visiting his site and things have slowly gotten better. I completed World War Alpha and it was a good laugh, I played until the early hours. He should put a paypal link on his site so people can donate something to fund him though cos I completed his game without buying it! If mdickie reads this, keep going mate... |
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| I salute mdickie for his success even if I find his games (the ones I have tried) totally unplayable, especially the control of characters are impossible. But he is out there, he sells games and he makes money, way to go :o) |
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| Here comes your moment of clarity: The reason you don't like me (or my work) is the reason everybody in the outside world does. My games aren't aimed at a few hundred cynical programmers - they're aimed at a few hundred thousand lighthearted members of the public. Take the chip off your shoulder and I'll introduce you to them some time... |
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| I love you. |
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxnXP0PUfJk&NR=1 mdickie has his own stalkers. At least people are passionate about his games, unlike mine |
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| Boy, that guy REALLY wants to be able to stack crap, doesn't he?! :/ |
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| id rather spend a day coding the stacking than know there is a guy out there being all psycho |
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| Wait a minute, is that guy slating "MDickie"? I can't view the full video yet as YouTube is on 'go-slow'. |
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| His games are downright awful, so I'd say no, he is not your number one game maker. |
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| He deserves some admiration....even if you don't like his games or his behaviour at least for his determination and success at completing games. In the end, he is a solo developer and he doesn't have a daily job which means he make a living by making and selling games. Those lego models mean anything? Come on now, top developers make great games -graphically- but most of those games suck! Graphics are not "that" important compared to the gameplay. I'm not a fan of MDickie but his "bringing original ideas to life easily" is what I love. Cheers. |
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| Look at this! Look at this!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIc0UMHqds8&NR=1 If ever I had a fat juicy target - it is this one. |
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| I say good for you MDickie. Your attitude is inspirational and you are obviously enjoying success with your games. |
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| That guy slating MDickie in the tube Videos has got real problems. His anger probably all stems from jealousy that he can't make any games and he is just a fat ass using youtube to communicate with people because in real life the only people that come to see him are his psychiatrist and the police to make sure that he's not gonna go on a murder spree. :) |
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| Apartment C, 4107 Center Street, Tacoma, Washington 98409, United States Owned by me! |
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| Jesus - what's up with that guy?! |
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| I have his phone number too. |
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| Is he your girl friend puki? lol |
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| he will be..... he will be |
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| Does puki win a prize for having the most links in a sig? The prize being... a ladyboy! :P |
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| Does depend on what you mean by "Number 1", but, abd this is the important thing, hes making a living out of it. Good on him I say. (Ps I think his games look crap, but as he said Im a hard core; Top end PC; Gamer, part time programer. And not his market at all) (pps I think "The Sims" are crap as well) |
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| *chuckle* |
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I think they are somewhat different. Kind of cute really. Not sure about the scale of the hamster though - seems a bit big. |
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| lol |
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| puki - mocking others with his insanity since the dawn of time. |
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| It's only a picture of the hamster - it doesn't know. |
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| @MDickie Sweet. |
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| Mat, please don't judge us all from the views of a few. I am sorry about the "deluded" comment above, it should have been pruned long ago. Moderation standards round here aren't of course perfect but if people want to talk about Mat in the third person please don't. A healthy discussion about a games shortcomings without personal attacks is surely not that hard for a forum, taking offense from other's marketing campaigns and public personas is just plain silly. |
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| Hi, I would like to say FYFG to all the forum members who see fit to post here. Michael Rietzenstein knows what it means though. |
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| I think it is an interesting thread though. "MDickie" is hardly heard of, yet he is churning out loads of Blitz games. He has a reputation which is not too dissimilar to "halo" (ie a people openly state they don't like him), yet he never really posts enough for people to judge him. Another "MDickie" thread I created longer go than this went the same way. That prior thread was actually a pivotal point for posting on these forums - it created a new forum rule - some may remember the stand-off that exists today between two factions. |
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| I don't think the 3D looks dated at all, pretty impressive if you ask me. Or don't ask, they're pretty impressive even as stilss, never mind animated. No.1 game maker though, that's a pretty high achievement. regards, BP. |
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| Well, I think most of us out here should post less and code more. =] It's one of the reasons I've cut down my forum time these last months. And see how many more games I've released =] (note: that's sarcasm, directed at myself) Mdickie: Good for you. Keep making games and don't worry about DirectX 8,9 or 10... Whee =] |
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| Well, I think most of us out here should post less and code more. Look up 'temptation' in the dictionary. It says "Having a dev machine with broadband internet access.". Funnily enough, that's also the definition for 'procrastination'. :P |
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| I love that guy on youtube, Is her the head of the MDIckie fanclub? I actually posted on his clip. Not sure he'll agree with my comments though. I say we send him a free copy of Blitz and he can make the perfect wrestling game he's always wanted. |
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| From mdickie.com: My work is responsible for getting a lot of people into game development, so I can't turn my back on them when they come back asking questions! Doing just that is the aspiring Blitz developer, Sarper Şoher, whose journey is charted in the "Indie Diary" blog. After 7 years, even the best interviewee in the business starts to get a little repetitive - but there are plenty of new revelations in here about my methods to keep any fellow game developers interested. Speaking of which, you can further the discussion about my work at a thread on the Blitz forums. It has started positively enough, but look for it to turn sour soon as the opening sarcastic remarks slowly grow in confidence... |
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| How can anyone not respect a man with so much energy and determination? |
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| Jealousy |
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| cmon guys u can't just claim that some 1 is better than some 1 else in game programming! we're all the best in our own unique way ^^ |
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| Heh - M.Dickie. We don't really like to talk about him here do we? Kind of like the slightly retarded cousin who keeps on dancing when everyone else has left the dancefloor. He's been quietly putting out game after game, admittedly they're usually pretty naff, but he's doing his own thing and succeeding from what I can tell. |
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| How can anyone not respect a man with so much energy and determination? Well said. |
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| I would like to say FYFG to all the forum members who see fit to post here. a) Where else should they post?b) If only Mr. Rietzenstein is supposed to understand what you mean, why bother posting it to a forum? How can anyone not respect a man with so much energy and determination? What's that got to do with it? There are plenty of people with energy and determination that are undeserving of respect. What I want to know is what he did to piss people off like that. Kind of like the slightly retarded cousin who keeps on dancing when everyone else has left the dancefloor. I think that's a rather poor analogy (in terms of accuracy and taste). Personally I don't see what the big deal is. He has a reputation which is not too dissimilar to "halo" (ie a people openly state they don't like him), yet he never really posts enough for people to judge him. Halo has more than 7500 posts (on his current account) - MDickie has 15. Your math is terribly inaccurate. we're all the best in our own unique way ^^ No. What you meant to say is that best is highly subjective. If the metric you're using is most games is quantitatively, that is who's shipped most games in the shortest amount of time, then yes he and GFK are pretty much it. If it's who writes the best games, that's pretty much a toss up between John Pickford, Michael Rietzenstein and Anthony Flack. Best programmers are probably fredborg or Brucey. |
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| I would like to say FYFG to all the forum members who see fit to post here. Quiet, Bloodlocust, or I'll remind everyone what the moon is really made of. |
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| I just want to know what "FYFG" means.. :/ |
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| Feel Your Fluffy Gonads ...no wonder it's a secret - Yuck! |
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| Finish Your F***ing Game And quit whinging about MDickie, who is making money while you waste time. |
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| YNATPHUYHAGUYB! |