Hello Games chose to release Joe Danger via Sony's PlayStation Network because the team regarded Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade as a "slaughterhouse" for small developers.
Hello Games' new project would feel impossible to create even with 1,000 people behind it, the developer has said.
Speaking to IGN, studio co-founder and managing director Sean Murray said that, while it's not a sequel to No Man's Sky, the new game is just as ambitious.
Sean really? Haven't you learned a thing since your first game about over promising?
Here we go again…. Yes he did. That’s why there was a class action lawsuit against him. With an ultimatum. That’s why we’ve received a free overhaul of the entire game.
@ 1nsomniac
What exactly has he promised about the new game? All I can see is him saying it's ambitious.
Edit: Hold on, maybe you're talking about No Man's Sky?
Oh, but if we want to hate something, we need to read into everything and create our own narrative./sarcasm.
If he hadn't learned anything, he would have offered a long list of specific features, released an E3-style pre-rendered cinematic trailer labeled "in-game footage", and made the round of talk shows gushing his enthusiasm for the project.
All we have here is: "We're working on something. It's a challenge for us."
If anything, he has demonstrated again and again that he has learned to be very disciplined in how he communicates with the public. He doesn't even make promises regarding updates to NMS until after they have released. All we get ahead of time is a single, cryptic emoji on his Twitter feed.
It seems to have been mostly just a matter of him underestimating the time it would take to do what they wanted with it. They have yet to announce a release date for the new game, so they have as much time as they need for a proper launch this time around.
NMS is also currently far beyond what was ever promised.
It’s like he’s trying to throw all the good will away that he’s earned with these free updates. Under promise-Over deliver. The hype train that leaves too early will likely run out of steam before it’s destination.
Well that's just poor planning of your resources. I don't see what time you leave having any bearing on fuel
C'mon now haters. How many teams this small even have the guts to try to make games this ambitious? Most of them are happy to make the billionth pixel art rogue like.
By far. Particularly since about 40% of the promises they supposedly made were just things the community made up from watching trailers.
So go the Star Citizen route and get paid for your idea. Then you can create infinite ideas inside a game while never releasing the game.
‘You can experience parts of Star Citizen now’ would be a more accurate statement.
Hello Games founder Sean Murray said the letter "broke our hearts and made us want to set things right". It has now been relaunched on iOS.
What an amazing story, Joe Danger was a fantastic game and hearing about these kinds of stories makes me much happier than hearing adults bicker back and forth about which animations a game is re-using and the amount of pixels on the screen.
This is what gaming is really about and I feel like some people just tend to forget that
Sure, there was online gaming back in the day but the modern age of online video gaming began almost twenty years ago with Xbox Live 1.0.
Haha. Yep. To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today.
That is arguable seeing as how good similar PC services are these days. The lack of cheaters on console is the closed ecosystem rather than extra effort by MS/Sony
"To be fair, I feel that it was actually worth it because it kept a good minimum standard. There was horrible lag back in the day and a lot of cheating/hacking. More so than today."
The horrible lag back then was due to peole not having the speeds needed to run games, peoples internet speeds were all over the place. Hacking is as bad today, if not worse than back then. People now have access to sophisticated hacking programmes that were nowhere near as prevalent as they are today. Anticheat software was also available way before Xbox Live and the paid online services became a thing.
I gamed online a lot from 1999 onwards and had great times playing without having issues with people cheating and no one had to pay for an online subscription.
Wow, even indie devs know PS3 is better than 360
"XBLA is kind of a slaughterhouse for smaller developers. There's two titles released every week and a lot of those are falling in that 25,000 or less category."
So, XBLA is worse cause it has more games?
I think the real reason that it's not released on XBLA is spelled Trials HD. On PSN they don't have that competition so it makes more sense for them to release it there.
There is a big difference on how each company handles its games.
MS let any developer to make an indy game for the machine with good tools but they require a long period of exclusivity. You have to wade through the rubbish games to find the excellent ones. Another thing is that if the game was on the PSN first you need to get a publisher like EA and the likes and there goes your profit. MS is using this to force indy developers to make 360 games first.
"According to Murray, with Joe Danger reportedly breaking even on its first day of release."
That is pretty good considering that the day the game was released the PSN was down for maintainance and there was only a few hours to download it.
Oh please, some small developer whose last game sucked is complaining that it's too hard because there is too much competition?
The entire industry is a slaughterhouse to small developers. You either put out top notch product, or get out. The competition is stiff.
How about talk to some of the small developers who made a name for themselves through XBLA and see what they think.
i have like 12 games i own for it. games like shadow complex,splosion man,banjo kazooie n64 remake, geometry wars, and trials hd are so good. those are some high quality downloadable games right there.