Quote: "I've tried developing a decent game with FPSC but the reality is I can't do it. I just can't. I guess I'm just not good in every area, I can design levels fairly well, but I also need people with animation skills for cutscenes, 3d modelling and possibly advanced fpi scripting. Seriously my life is far from perfect and it just stresses me out knowing that I've got a very cool game development tool on my computer that I'm restricted to taking to the next level."
This was asked on the boards, right, I see a lot of presumptions about what a video game should be, this person sounds like they are very much in the games must be like the commercial games I see being put out by the major companies, and that's exactly where you are going wrong.
Ill answer some of his questions,
Quote: "but I also need people with animation skills for cut scenes."
No you don't need them, why not pose still frames, why do they have to be animated, when you read a comic book you don't shout this sucks, its not moving, or when reading a book that doesn't move, I'm sure youve see films that use writing to tell the story, ahem cough, Star Wars, though that was nicked from the 1930s flash Gordan serials, why not use a camera to take images for the cutscenes, like in Max Payne, or draw the images, why not do the cut scene as a radio play, perhaps using images in a slide show,
Quote: "3d modelling and possibly advanced fpi scripting"
The boards are full of free models and packs to buy, you can make a game without making a single thing, or use what skills you do have, perhaps make a minimalist game, does the game have to look life like, Ive a single word here, its a filthy word, it may shock some of you, to some of you it may be a new concept a new radical idea that you have never heard of before, brace yourself, here it comes.
Impressionism.
Yes that's right, realism art ended and and new forms emerged, guess what, you don't have to make literalist, realism, it looks just like
real life (c) games, its like video game makers only understand photographs and any graphical representations throw their heads out of whack.
See this web page here, it will sort your head box out.
Videogame Aesthetics: We're All Going to Die!
http://modetwo.net/users/nachimir/vga/
You are making yourself problems, like I said in the original post on this thread, stop following someones tail you can never catch, dance to the beat of your own drum, not someone else's.
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