GameSpy has a whimsical, multi- (really multi-) panel cartoon depicting the great circle of life as it pertains to games.
Click here for the full cartoon.
GP: Thanks to sharp-eyed GamePolitics correspondent Andrew Eisen for the tip...
Andrew Eisen: I have it. The problem, so far as I can tell, is neither of them allow me to overlay my webcam feed or text links to my Extra-Life fundraising page.10/19/2014 - 4:08pm
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quiknkold: and yes, its free10/19/2014 - 4:05pm
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quiknkold: should grab Hauppauge capture. has mic support and can upload directly to youtube10/19/2014 - 4:05pm
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Andrew Eisen: The former.10/19/2014 - 4:00pm
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quiknkold: was it StreamEez, or the StreamEez feature in Hauppauge Capture? cause I know Capture has alot more support from the devs.10/19/2014 - 3:54pm
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Andrew Eisen: I actually tried StreamEez last week. Flat out didn't work.10/19/2014 - 3:53pm
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quiknkold: I use the Hauppauge Capture software's StreamEez. Arcsoft showbiz for recording. I just streamed a few hours of Persona 4 Golden with zero problem using the program. Xsplit is finniky when it comes to Hauppauge10/19/2014 - 3:40pm
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Andrew Eisen: Trying to capture console games and broadcast with Open Broadcaster System because I've had technical difficulties using XSplit 3 weeks in a row.10/19/2014 - 3:37pm
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quiknkold: and what are you trying to capture?10/19/2014 - 3:31pm
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quiknkold: same one I have. ok. what program are you using?10/19/2014 - 3:31pm
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Andrew Eisen: Haupaugge HD PVR 210/19/2014 - 3:28pm
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quiknkold: What Capture Card are you using, Andrew10/19/2014 - 3:26pm
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quiknkold: I know Biddle isnt Kotaku. he's just a employee. Its up to Kotaku if they want to punish him for being a public representative of Kotaku...well...I wouldnt be against it.10/19/2014 - 3:26pm
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Andrew Eisen: Lovely, my capture card is not (yet) compatible with the broadcaster I want to use. Let's hope my workaround works!10/19/2014 - 3:19pm
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Andrew Eisen: If you find Biddle's statement off-putting, then you're certainly directing your distaste at the correct entity.10/19/2014 - 3:18pm
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quiknkold: as somebody who once had his skull fractured behind a grocery store as a kid because I was a nerd. Sam Biddle can eff himself with barbwire10/19/2014 - 2:59pm
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Matthew Wilson: I dont agree with it, but that doesnt mean its not true sadly.10/19/2014 - 2:36pm
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Andrew Eisen: Which I find to be (in most cases) extraordinarily petty.10/19/2014 - 2:34pm
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Matthew Wilson: I get the joke andrew. In the social media age, if you say somthing stupid people will take it out on the company you work for.10/19/2014 - 2:30pm
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Papa Midnight: It's Gawker. I'm not sure his comments can really do much to lower whatever modicum of perceived crediiblity that network of sites may have.10/19/2014 - 2:27pm
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Comments
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
The only bit I have a problem with is the idea that a child "illegally" buys it from a store. It is not 'illegal' to sell any ESRB-rated game to a child.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Wishful thinking on the part of the artist, perhaps?
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
That comic winz
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
I'm a bit weirded out by the panel stating that a child "illegally" buys the game. Since when is it illegal to sell ANY game to a person of ANY age? (disregarding something that is pornographic or obscene, or whatever requirement is needed for it to be restricted)
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Keep in mind all of the politicians that want to make it illegal for that.
Freedom of speech means the freedom to say ANYTHING, so long as it is the truth. This does not exclude anything that might hurt someone's feelings.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Outside of the US of A there are countries that do restrict the sale of things, movies as well as games, based on age ratings.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
The cartoon's game is rated by the ESRB - that means it's going to be sold in the USA.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
But perhaps there was something else illegal about the child's purchase. Using counterfeit money, perhaps?
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
What greatness lies in half truths and smug reailties....I love it!
I am a criminal because I purchase media,I am a criminal because I use media, I am a criminal because I chose to own media..We shall remain criminals until Corporate stay's outside our bedrooms..
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Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
There needs to be an extra panel, squeezed in after the second: boobs are added to it.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
That would counter the "it doesn't sell" step later on. Missing the boobs is really the reason for the rest of Game's life.
The ultimate game would be a freeform world you could explore at leisure, backed up by a sweeping graphics engine and comprehensive physics simulator, armed with a gun with two settings: One which adds boobs to things, and one which sets things on fire. With Novint Falcon support.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
"The ultimate game would be a freeform world you could explore at leisure, backed up by a sweeping graphics engine and comprehensive physics simulator, armed with a gun with two settings: One which adds boobs to things, and one which sets things on fire. With Novint Falcon support."
That's a good start, your forgetting to mention one important feature though.
Do you play as a grizzled space marine?
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
>One which adds boobs to things
Boob! Headshot!
/b
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Oh great, spoiler warning next time maybe. You do play as a grizzled space marine (who has lost his romantic interest) but you aren't supposed to know that until the end because you have amnesia.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Amnesia with boobs?
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Pariah?
I am a criminal because I purchase media,I am a criminal because I use media, I am a criminal because I chose to own media..We shall remain criminals until Corporate stay's outside our bedrooms..
http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Let's renegotiate them.
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http://zippydsm.deviantart.com/
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Really, the two panels you have here are the only two panels worth reading.
E. Zachary Knight
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
http://www.theeca.com/chapters_oklahoma
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
I concur.
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Papa Midnight
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Papa Midnight
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Interestingly, this is like Insomniac's take on the Spyro franchise.
"Insomniac Games President Ted Price stated in an interview about Resistance: Fall of Man that they stopped creating Spyro games because the player character, Spyro, was too limited for them to add new features and actions (Ted states, as an example, that "he didn't even have hands, he couldn't even hold a gun."
GameSnooper
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
What a sad lack of imagination this shows...
I mean, of course Spyro could hold guns! He could have them mounted to his wings or tail or something! Come on, Price, use your thinking cap! You can get guns in there somewhere! :D
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Of Course Row 4 Panel 2 answers one of the lingering questions I had from working at EB Games.
What happens to all the boxes and manuals for these games people trade in? I cannot tell you the number of games that were traded in on my shift that had no boxes and manuals. It is as if these people throw them away and keep all their games in a cd wallet.
E. Zachary Knight
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
http://www.theeca.com/chapters_oklahoma
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Yeah that always confused me too; I can understand maybe a PC game but Console games where are you storing the thing?
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Judging by the condition of most disks that were brought in, they were storing them on their gravel driveway.
E. Zachary Knight
Oklahoma City Chapter of the ECA
http://www.theeca.com/chapters_oklahoma
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Agreed. Everything after that seemed excessively cynical.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
Thirded.
I know the strip was grossly exaggerating everything anyway, but since when did testers 'approve' games? I can't recall any capacity for that when I was in QA anyway.
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
"Testers" do not approve the code, but the QA department does approve (or deny approval it as the case may be) the code for submission to first party. They can always be overruled however....
Also, testers wouldn't be narcoleptic if they weren't forced to work 70-80 hour work weeks....just saying...
"You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it."
Re: Cartoon: The Life Cycle of a Video Game
I dunno. The notion of Jack-O vowing to sue a fire brought a smile to my face.