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Zach Braff Talks About Kickstarting: “It’s About Community”
Zach Braff gets candid about pitching his movie.
Even if you don’t know who Zach Braff is – just watch some Scrubs reruns and you get it – you have to admire his tenacity. The internet-savvy celeb launched a Kickstarter last month for his original new film called Wish I Was Here, which has already raised $2.5 million toward a $2 million goal with two weeks to go. In an interview for the new Kickstarted documentary, Braff explains the process plus its highlights and pitfalls.
What Is Steam’s Greenlight Service And Why Do Indie Developers Hate It So Much?
Lots of buzz about Steam’s indie release service, good and bad.
Self-publishing your work is hard. I should know. After spending months or years of your life forming something the public can consume from the deepest pits of your brain, you not only have to learn the technical ropes to make it happen, but the art of promotion and juggle all these hats in the hopes that it’ll pay off. If you’re writing a book, you’ll want to make sure it’s on Kindle; a movie: Amazon or Netflix, but if you’re making a game, Steam is the promised land. Sure, there are other platforms that will distribute your game digitally with fewer barriers to meddle with, but none compare to the clout that comes with being carried on Steam, a previously near-impossible task. With Steam’s Greenlight service, more developers are closer to realizing their dreams, but why are the same independent developers it’s designed to help passionately railing against the service?
OMG: ‘Just Cause 2’ Developer Almost Made Open-World ‘Star Wars’ Game
Be still, my beating heart.
Urgh! Hurp… phew! Oh, don’t mind me, just almost having a heart attack after hearing about this news. According to current and former key personnel at Avalanche Studios, the people behind my second favorite game of the past decade (behind Minecraft, obviously) lobbied LucasArts to make an open-world game in the Star Wars universe, which may have become the best game ever made in history, had it come to pass.
PlayStation 4 And Next-Gen Xbox Games Won’t Appear On Wii U Because Duh
You’ can see this graphical power on the Wii U… in video form.
I don’t know if you guys have noticed, but media outlets are, again and again, reporting how various studios will be unable to bring their next-generation efforts to the Wii U. Somehow, people have some kind of expectation that graphics engines that are being optimized for hardware ten times as powerful (I’m just spitballing, but considerably faster) as the Wii U will fit on the Nintendo console. This isn’t news, but the fact that it’s being reported (and re-reported) is blistering my mind.
‘Jurassic Park 4’ Put On Hold Due To Script Issues, Production Crew Canned [UPDATED]
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Troubled Production? Apparently.
We’re getting word across the internet that Jurassic Park IV has been put on hold due to script troubles. A pair of artists have come out on Twitter to say that script development issues, similar to what happened to Spielberg’s Robopocalypse, are what’s now setting the film back. The movie is being scribed by husband-and-wife team Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, who were more recently responsible for the new Planet of the Apes films. The movie isn’t cancelled per se, but what info do we have? Not much!
New Double Fine-Themed Humble Bundle Is Worth Losing Your Mind Over
It’s insane like a manatee. Hmmm, that doesn’t really have the same ring about it, does it…
It’s time for a new Humble Bundle! Most of these have been great, but c’mon, having those holdouts back yet again is getting a little thin. Now it’s time for Tim Schafer’s Double Fine to shine, now featuring almost all of the studio’s output in one fell swoop!
‘Ender’s Game’ Trailer Is Here: Pew Pew, Explosions, Etc.
Don’t be sad, Ender.
Guys, I don’t know anything about Ender’s Game. Okay, I do a little: it’s Halo. Rather, Halo riffed off it. Fine, I’ll look it up. Let’s see here. Holy crap, this book is almost as old as I am. Have they seriously been sitting on this super-important science-fiction property for that long? I mean, this is the reason people know who Orson Scott Card is, aside from the whole gay marriage thing, right? Well, whatever the case may be, that movie is finally here and they’ve got a trailer for it, so that’s all that matters.
‘Strip Search’ Recap: Season 1, Episode 20 “Training Day”
Forrest Gump would be proud.
Thus begins a new day, the seventh, when all things are meant to rest. Or something. I hated PE class because most anything we had to do made me look like a doofus, so those feelings flew right back up into the forefront of my mind as the six scared contestants are prompted to play Ping Pong.
How To Make A Better Strategy Game: 4X Edition
While it predates the term, Civilization is the 4X genre’s most popular game.
Strategy games have been around for thousands of years. We’ve played them in all of their various forms, but before we had StarCraft, we had Chess and Carcassone. There came a time when the bustling utility of the computer allowed for more sophisticated fare that didn’t require tons of custom paperwork, massive table tops, a complex set of dice and the inefficient industry of the human calculator. One of the most popular genres to emerge from this new computer gaming was the XXXX strategy game, which isn’t short-hand for extra-dimensional porn, but the perfect way to produce a game of a massive scale – like building an empire – without bogging you down in minutiae. With developers continuing to push out 4X “tribute” games that fall way short of their influences, I’ve decided to step back to explain what makes those games so special, rather than rag about what makes these would-bes inferior. Read the rest of this article…
Tesla’s Electric Cars + Google’s Self-Driving Tech = Profit!
The future is here, just a few dollars more than you’d pay for.
While our nation’s streets and highways aren’t quite the violent, ultra-fast transit lines of I, Robot (or even the dash cam-friendly roads beyond the Iron Curtain, for that matter), automobile accidents still kill 35,000 people per year. How do we avoid these? In many, many cases, you need to remove the human driver from the equation. Tesla’s Elon Musk is a big proponent of that, too, but he doesn’t want the marketing to replace humans to sound so brusque.
