This video seems to be circulating the gaming circles lately. Readers of this site will probably like it since it is entirely business related. This is what a game developer looks and sounds like when his game studio is going under.
He said two things that stick out to me. He said that rich people he knows won’t give him money, and he wonders why. He also talks about Steve Jobs, the iconic businessman, and wishes he could act more like Steve Jobs and be mean instead of Steve Wozniak and be too nice.
I’m scratching my head asking, “Well, if you don’t understand the business way, then why are you in business?” People like Steve Jobs succeeded because he was interested in BUILDING something and of how awesome and fine it would be. In this Matt Chat, it takes about an hour before he starts really talking about Wildman and then I’m still confused about how it is supposed to act. Another clip at the end is another designer saying how Chris told him to go take care of his sick wife instead of worrying about the game. I don’t care about that. I just care about the game I’m pledging for. You can get elected to public office telling everyone how much you ‘care’ about everyone and everything, but that doesn’t work in business. You have to build something and communicate it well.
Talk about Wildman and why we need Wildman the game to exist. Don’t talk about Christ Taylor and how nice he is. Gamers care about the games, not about the developers. Anyway, here is the kickstarter link.
I love RTS. I also like action RPG. What I don’t like is the logo which looks like some crappy flash game. And I don’t want to be a caveman. There needs to be a cooler character design. It is one thing to be primitive and another to look half-ape. RPGs tend to take an artistic design from heroic literature such as Greek mythology where the heroes are as un-ape as possible.
The pitch video also shows poor salesmanship skills. Salesmanship is all part of business. Why do I need this game? That answer remains unfulfilled.
Contrast something like Wildman to something like Star Citizen.
Roberts starts off implying his game is going to save PC gaming. In fact, if you pledge to his game, it is defying all the people who say ‘PC gaming is dead’.
“I don’t want to build a game. I want to build a universe.” That is good salesmanship. It is like Steve Jobs saying, “We’re not building computers. We’re overthrowing dead culture.”
Roberts also keeps talking about the user experience with the game. “The single player experience will be like Wing Commander…”
Let’s see Taylor can get the ‘sympathy’ pledge money before his kickstarter ends.
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