http://esreality.com/post/2269998/real-talk-with-2gd-ep04/

Somewhere in the video.

Thanks, I like the idea. Should contact cpma team for pmx movement

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/nf...ex/c38obo9

dikedo 17 points 5 months ago

What type of game do you think is currently missing in eSports competitions?


2GD[S] 56 points 5 months ago

A 1v1 FPS Game, I actually designed one. I think Quakers r a little bored with Quake overall and we need fresh blood (new players), but we wont get it due to the game play being quite old.

I designed a new FPS duel game called "Reborn" its meant to play like quake with a more advanced movement and weapon system, with integrated tournament system, ladders, tour UI and a whole bunch of competitive features I helped implement into Bloodline Champions. I have a meeting with an investor to raise 2.5 mill, I could get the whole game done in 2 years tops, which would still beat quake 5 by 3 years i'm guessing.

One can dream

and http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/2GD#Working_as_a_developer

...he continued to support BLC including securing a $15,000 tournament at DreamHack. He then made an attempt at raising 2.5million dollars to fund an "esport game". He spoke to an investor and they were interested but not in doing a small project (they wanted to invest 100million dollars) and making the game an MMO. He ended up trying to cut costs and make the game using only a quarter of a million dollars. The game was set to be called "Reborn" and would have been free to play with a pay element to buy maps beyond the original maps developed by community members (the incentive being that the creator could make money from the map) and other non-intrusive non-"pay to win" pay measures. The project was paused while he built up his "GD studio"

I'd be very interested to know more about his ideas.

I would think that an investor would treat him as toxic, after his support of BLC.

"Quakers r a little bored with Quake"

fixed: I (2GD) am a little bored with Quake
zhere!

"they were interested but not in doing a small project"
No chance for speculation and financial frauds, no interest.
Put inside the game the possibility for gamers to borrow money from the bank, and they will all jump on you, happy to "invest".

New world order should go like this: If you cannot do something on your own, don't do it at all, because if this is the case then it proves to be a bad idea from the very beginning.
Bye-bye speculators!

i would be the first to donate if he just started a kickstarter...

I would too, but if he needs $2.5m to do it right, surely he needs a big investor or two to cover the bulk of that, before maybe turning to Kickstarter for the rest.

It's interesting to think about what sort of target he could realistically set for a Kickstarter campaign. I guess it depends on how well he can sell his idea to the rest of the gaming world, rather than just the Quake diehards. But I'm not even sure how many of us there are in that latter category. You'd hope we'd be worth $100k or so, but who knows? Maybe I'm being too optimistic there.

This page shows insane numbers for three big names, then a handful raising 500k - 1m, quite a few others with 100k+, and then a whole lot with 10k - 100k.

(I'm not sure what % Kickstarter takes for itself, but I remember reading that it is pretty substantial.)

Also, I forgot to add, I'm not really comfortable with the idea of one guy being entrusted with millions of dollars of random people's money, with no binding strings attached. (I don't know exactly how the law works, but as I understand it, Kickstarter backers don't really have any way to stop the backee from doing a completely half-arsed job and spending most of the money on whisky and hookers...)

what does he have to gain by ripping everyone off? if he'd do that, he'd be more dead then savior.

what does he have to gain by ripping everyone off?

$2500000.

I'm only talking in a general hypothetical way here -- I don't think 2gd is actually planning some kind of scam, and I'm not suggesting he's the type of person who would do that. (Nor do I think a 2.5m dollar Kickstarter is at all realistic in this case.) I'm just pointing out that when you get up into that region of ridiculous money Kickstarters, there is a lot of risk and not a lot of accountability.

Obviously you need the backee to either be very trustworthy, or have an extremely valuable public reputation. For someone amoral who didn't care hugely about their rep, there would be a big incentive to spend 1% of the budget making some crap so they could say they fulfilled their end of the bargain, and paying the rest to themself as a 'developer salary' or whatever. (And then spending the next 20 years living a life of leisure.)

But even for people who aren't cynical bastard scammers, there must be a bit of a grey area. How are they to be held accountable for the way they manage the budget?

I'm only speculating here, but I'm assuming that having a serious $1m investor on your back would keep you in line and force you to set out your plans in detail, and meet certain commitments, on pain of getting your arse sued. Whereas (again, AFAIK) receiving your funding entirely from random Kickstarter backers leaves you to spend the money pretty much however you see fit -- leaving a greater risk, even if you're not deliberately misusing the money, that you'll make bad decisions and have nobody to call you on them before it's too late.

You keep saying 2.5 million, but he said that would be in perfect conditions and that 250k via a kick starter may still be enough.

Was that in the 'real talk' interview? I didn't watch that because it's ridiculously long, but I see now that someone posted the time he talks about Reborn, so I'll have a listen! Good to know though, it's exciting that he's actually talked about doing a (medium-sized) Kickstarter

Yeah about 1h20m

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thats how everything works tho.

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$2.5m is a ridiculous budget. He could do a perfectly functional proof of concept that could be built on for under $100k. Leaping up to a major budget is a disastrous idea. License the Unreal Engine (free until you make over a certain level of profit I believe), build two player models, all weapons, two level texture sets and a couple of levels for each gameplay type. The community would playtest it for free.

He said he could cut it to $250k. As I already said,
http://esreality.com/post/2269998/real-talk-with-2gd-ep04/

what happened with arqons new game? :D

PMX or something else? For PMX arQ kept disappearing without warning for months at a time so keeping people to continue became impossible.

that sucks, i thought you were taking it over. last time we spoke you were designing a cpm map.. dang! :(

thats exactly (without knowing anything about coding) what i thought.
it seemed when i listened to the real talk episode that he wants to build everything from scratch including the level editor.

would the Unreal Engine be suited for what he wants to do?

"that he wants to build everything from scratch including the level editor"

That would be insane and almost guaranteed to fail. The Unreal Engine would be perfect, it has a strong tool base with many people experienced in their use. I believe things like netcode could be modified if needed.

hire p0rt

http://www.esreality.com/post/2272923/n-a/#pid2274531

yeah i don't think we will reach 100000 really. the only ones who are really interested in supporting this is _this_ site and most the ppl here don't even pay 2 Euros a mounts to support id and QL.
Esreality is a shitty community whit only whiners and trolls so i have no faith really, hopefully if the opportunity comes I would be wrong :)

Way to preach God in the church.

It's all 2GD's fault for pushing us his buddhist beliefs of rebirth in this game

What is his fault?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfjPsoBU9jc

Severity 2

YOU WANNA PUT A BANGIN DONK ON THAT LAR