Well I did have more fun making video games. First I made one by myself, just a free game but won a game competition. Then I joined a startup that is making a "real" game, ecxept it was mostly me programming, the other programmer too scared of my code or something, some 3D artists mostly waiting for us to get a concept artist/funding, and too many (3) business people who were not really interested in working on the game. I quit 2 years ago as it seem a likely failure, I have some evidence of the CEO scamming us to get more shares also.
Since then though they did get some investors and hired more people. I lost access to their documents, so I can only really follow the development through their PR, they now treat me like an investor and just sends me letters to the shareholders saying everything is great and the sales are projected to be really good. One thing I do know though is they switched out my network architecure (fixed integer math deterministic simulations without syncing) to floating point with authorative server, which seem like it could create huge challenges. And the guy who decided it quit in August.
Now they wrote in the latest letter they got 4m Steam impressions and 20k wishlists, and mentioned something about good response in Youtube/Twitch community. But from what I see there is no community, only found one guy played it in 1 youtube video, a handfull comments on Steam and empty subreddit, only mentioned in very small local newspapers. So don't bother looking for it, it's an unknown game.
Now one of the business guys called me last year trying to boost about how the shares are so valuable now. I've been trying to think of some exit plan they may have, as they only sold new printed shares. Doesn't seem they can profit without actually making a decent game.
Now you could argue none of this is my problem any more. But I kind of have an instinct that I should lie low untill it's over, and try not to seem connected to the game, since I can't really speak too freely about it without putting it in more risk (my NDA should have run out though). But their plan of early access in December seem unlikely, and prorbably their funding ran out again. So it could be a while. So it made me a bit unenthuastic and I failed some job interviews that may have been much more interesting, I want to get in good shape before I do any more job interviews I think.
Since then though they did get some investors and hired more people. I lost access to their documents, so I can only really follow the development through their PR, they now treat me like an investor and just sends me letters to the shareholders saying everything is great and the sales are projected to be really good. One thing I do know though is they switched out my network architecure (fixed integer math deterministic simulations without syncing) to floating point with authorative server, which seem like it could create huge challenges. And the guy who decided it quit in August.
Now they wrote in the latest letter they got 4m Steam impressions and 20k wishlists, and mentioned something about good response in Youtube/Twitch community. But from what I see there is no community, only found one guy played it in 1 youtube video, a handfull comments on Steam and empty subreddit, only mentioned in very small local newspapers. So don't bother looking for it, it's an unknown game.
Now one of the business guys called me last year trying to boost about how the shares are so valuable now. I've been trying to think of some exit plan they may have, as they only sold new printed shares. Doesn't seem they can profit without actually making a decent game.
Now you could argue none of this is my problem any more. But I kind of have an instinct that I should lie low untill it's over, and try not to seem connected to the game, since I can't really speak too freely about it without putting it in more risk (my NDA should have run out though). But their plan of early access in December seem unlikely, and prorbably their funding ran out again. So it could be a while. So it made me a bit unenthuastic and I failed some job interviews that may have been much more interesting, I want to get in good shape before I do any more job interviews I think.
Specs: intel i5 3570k @ 3.4GHz;
16Gb RAM; Raedon HD 7900;
Win8 64-Bit
16Gb RAM; Raedon HD 7900;
Win8 64-Bit