Ok, thank you for correcting me on that one.
This is what I'm talking about - Alex considers himself a game developer, but he doesn't seem to understand things that are obvious for people, who have just played more than one game in their lives. I still can't wrap my head around the fact, that he chose to put an air jump on dash instead of, you know, jump button in Lunar Scythe. It's unintuitive as hell.
The Lunar Scythe demo looked and played better than this.
Probably because, as shitty as Lunar Scythe was, it had a clear goal in mind and Alex sorta knew what he wanted it to be. YandereSim has no such thing and is basically all over the place with it's features. Alex maybe you should fucking flesh things out and see what sticks within the lore of the game and how it flows with it's gameplay? Some games have really well developed combat sandboxes that flows beautifully in the context of the game (like Halo Combat Evolved, and basically any Zelda game) and others seem really clunky and unsure wtf they are trying to do (Fallout 3, Minecraft).
Hell yeah I'm playing it right now and the only thing that tells you it's made for controllers is that whenever you switch directions (press A or D while holding W) it makes a janky animation, or the character simply stops and starts running again.
Ehm, no, he put as much effort and thought into it as he puts into anything he does. Just check this.
Alex's Patreon usually drops down with the start of a new month and mostly recovers in a few days but that's a much larger drop than usual. Give it another day or two to see if any paypigs come crawling back, then that'll be a decent indicator of how his fanbase is taking his recent posts.
Imagine waiting to have more rivals implemented (for almost a year) after the demo release, and then all you get is this Yakuza ripoff.
I still think he atleast had some clear vision and execution with that as shitty as it was. I can say more for Lunar Scythe than I can for the modern state of YanSim at this point
Alex admits in his blog post that his fans hated the beat em up idea four years ago, but now they do today, so that means he should add it.
Textbook definition of confirmation bias!
Do you realise that it is basically the same shit? Both had 0 thought put into it, just barebones "it would be cool, if...". Even though Alex says that he had an idea for Luna, somehow he found Unity Asset that looked almost like her concepts, which leads me to believe that he had model first, you know, just like with YS - he found AOI pack and asked his friend "where can I use it?". Both are rip-offs of Alex's autistic idea of different games - Lunar Shite is the rip-off of No More Heroes, YS is a rip-off of Hitman/Persona/Bully/
You do realise why Alex is still working on YS, don't you?
Wow, this is, extremely revealing and not surprising at all.
This honestly just compounds what we already know about him; that he wants to amount to something with his life but has no talent for his chosen """"career"""". He just goes with the first idea that envokes a positive response without thinking about whether it actually works and doesn't have the skills to make it work properly, and refuses to obtain the skills. He's continued plodding along with his chosen career out of spite, and so far has failed miserably at it.
Ironically he basically could have paid out of pocket for an education with the amount of money he has received monthly over the last 5 years as well as his Tinybuild event where he basically fired a guy who was hired to help him, for outshining him within 2 weeks.This honestly just compounds what we already know about him; that he wants to amount to something with his life but has no talent for his chosen """"career"""". He just goes with the first idea that envokes a positive response without thinking about whether it actually works and doesn't have the skills to make it work properly, and refuses to obtain the skills. He's continued plodding along with his chosen career out of spite, and so far has failed miserably at it.
7 years later the game sucks and he has a multitude of drama under his belt that he tried to quell with little success, at points even pissing gasoline on the flames, so they were right about him all along. He really should have seen it coming.
You show them, Alex.
Ehm, Alex has a degree, but here is a catch - from what I've been able to piece together, he took animation, gamedesign and prototyping courses. He is bad at all of those. In fact, do you remember his chat with Mike Z? Mike outright told him that using spreadsheets and big ass update functions is a terrible idea and guess what he uses in YS? Yep, all those things! And Mike was his idol i.e. a man he had the most chances to listen to. So no, paying for education would bave not helped Alex for one simple reason - he doesn't want to learn.
BTW I've heard rumors that TB approached him only because their CEO's wife liked that trash. Has anyone heard anything about this?
That's funny, actually. In 4chan threads or in his videos he said that he realizes - it won't last forever, people are going to move on and the longer it takes the worse outcome will be and in the end he did the opposite.
Is it just me, or is it a slight exaggeration to call 7 years “nearly a decade”?
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