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This is just to dump my brain and make a list of what games I'm currently playing, and what I should stop wasting time on:
Multiplayer:
Quake 2
Quake 3
Urban Terror
ETQW
Warsow
Paintball 2
Single Player:
Painkiller
Doom
Quake
Guilty Gear XX
SiN
And a load of others that are just sitting on my hard drive(s).
My main fear is that I'll spread myself too thin to be any good at any of them. That's the theory anyway. I don't feel less proficient in Q2 because of Urban Terror. Perhaps if I really want to devote more time to following leagues, shoutcasting, and doing about 5 times the community involvement stuff then before, then I suppose it's good to cross-connect all these different groups of people.
Lately I've been helping out organize the Tastyspleen Leagues, and that's been including hunting around for md3 model replacements lately, as well as making brightskins (ugh) for Open Arena. I keep telling myself that this is good news for down the road, and so far it's paying off (press pass at quakecon this year? yes plz!). Oh yeah - Pro Gam3r signed me up for writing for them. At the moment, the pay isn't all that great, but I value the oppurtunities to climb the social gamer ladder a bit. They've got some respectable people over there, and I'm sure I'll soon be proud to be among them.
Will this get in the way of things like AGOKS or other things? Or is this a hint that I might be able to apply myself like this for fun and profit in years to come? These days I certainly feel involved in the community(s), and making strong efforts to bring more people into the fold, cross-network the different games, and plant seeds for a stronger community to come. I say community a lot, don't I? The people I've met at Tastyspleen and BTF have since become extended family, and are manifest of the kind of community I want to see develop around our games in the future.
I think AGOKS will draw a peculiar kind of crowd. Since we're putting a lot of effort into infusing a sense of mystery into almost every aspect of the game, one of the main goals is to make AGOKS feel... alive. I don't mean in a gimmicky-that-almost-works Bioshock\Crysis kind of way, but in a way that you feel yourself put in an utterly alien realm that is totally consistent, but never entirely understood. I like exploring. I like finding secrets. I like stumbling on things and feeling like I'm the first one to ever see something. My belief is that there are a great many people out there who feel the same way.
Multiplayer:
Quake 2
Quake 3
Urban Terror
ETQW
Warsow
Paintball 2
Single Player:
Painkiller
Doom
Quake
Guilty Gear XX
SiN
And a load of others that are just sitting on my hard drive(s).
My main fear is that I'll spread myself too thin to be any good at any of them. That's the theory anyway. I don't feel less proficient in Q2 because of Urban Terror. Perhaps if I really want to devote more time to following leagues, shoutcasting, and doing about 5 times the community involvement stuff then before, then I suppose it's good to cross-connect all these different groups of people.
Lately I've been helping out organize the Tastyspleen Leagues, and that's been including hunting around for md3 model replacements lately, as well as making brightskins (ugh) for Open Arena. I keep telling myself that this is good news for down the road, and so far it's paying off (press pass at quakecon this year? yes plz!). Oh yeah - Pro Gam3r signed me up for writing for them. At the moment, the pay isn't all that great, but I value the oppurtunities to climb the social gamer ladder a bit. They've got some respectable people over there, and I'm sure I'll soon be proud to be among them.
Will this get in the way of things like AGOKS or other things? Or is this a hint that I might be able to apply myself like this for fun and profit in years to come? These days I certainly feel involved in the community(s), and making strong efforts to bring more people into the fold, cross-network the different games, and plant seeds for a stronger community to come. I say community a lot, don't I? The people I've met at Tastyspleen and BTF have since become extended family, and are manifest of the kind of community I want to see develop around our games in the future.
I think AGOKS will draw a peculiar kind of crowd. Since we're putting a lot of effort into infusing a sense of mystery into almost every aspect of the game, one of the main goals is to make AGOKS feel... alive. I don't mean in a gimmicky-that-almost-works Bioshock\Crysis kind of way, but in a way that you feel yourself put in an utterly alien realm that is totally consistent, but never entirely understood. I like exploring. I like finding secrets. I like stumbling on things and feeling like I'm the first one to ever see something. My belief is that there are a great many people out there who feel the same way.
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