We ended up with a tech demo of Supes fighting Metallo within an arena bordered by buildings, which would be destroyed by Metallo's actions at scripted points during the fight. It went well. Then we found out it was only going to be shown privately, to limited journalists.
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Management announced that they'd reached a deal with WBIE, and would be shifting the game's release date to coincide with the DVD release of the movie. We had an additional six months to finish the game. What was the design department's first reaction? Well.
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You might expect that the sensible reaction would be, "Great! What can we salvage and make as polished as possible?" But remember, we were dealing with both newbie designers, and a design-fellating workflow. Instead, what was asked was, "Great! What new features can we put in?"
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Inevitably, we wound up with 2-3 months of some strange semblance of normalcy, followd by another 2-3 months of crunch. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Somehow, we passed Microsoft TCRs in time. Somehow, we managed to outsource the PS2/Xbox ports.
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It was a miserable slog for a miserable game. I forget which person it was who I followed, exactly, who pointed out that for every gem of a game made with crunch, the majority are just forgotten about, leaving the devs hollow. But that was how it was with Sub-Par Man Returns.
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A last fun bit: One day, our EP (Chris Gray, previously known for his amazing work on Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O'Fun, so no wonder he was an EP on a multi-million franchise) encouraged us to look out the window. He'd bought a Ferrari. We were crunching. He bought a Ferrari.
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