Brianna Wu / John Flynt - Original Thread

[SlenderManBearPig]

I seriously doubt Wu is competent to port anything, ever, so it will simply never happen unless Wu manages to steal some more money to pay someone competent to do it.

On the kickstarter they commented nearly 2 months ago that all they have left to do is re-mesh the characters and render the opening sequence again, and Wu thinks shes a pro at using Maya. I think we're going to see the first ever mobile to PC port where the graphics get much, much worse.

 

[Picklechu]

I wonder what Brianna would think about a woman in tech who is running for President? Would she support her because (note that I do not recall the exact quote here) "women in the tech field need to build each other up," or would she oppose her because she's taking some shitlord-y positions and, as she is no longer in the tech field, her previous statements about women/patriarchy/etc no longer apply? One of my favorite things about Wu is just how wrong she is about how the world works, so I'd love to see her try to bullshit public policy and things like that.

 

[Cubanodun]

How much do you wanna bet she'll pull a Phil Fish by the end of the summer and cancel the port?

You want Revolution 60 for steam? SUCK MY DICK FOR IT RETARDS-Brianna Wu, 2015

 

[AnOminous]

I wonder what Brianna would think about a woman in tech who is running for President? Would she support her because (note that I do not recall the exact quote here) "women in the tech field need to build each other up," or would she oppose her because she's taking some shitlord-y positions

I'm going to go for the shitlord-y positions, though it is probably more important that she presided over HP going from a tech leader to a real shit operation. What the fuck has HP done worth mentioning lately?

 

[Rogowski]

http://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/595655466497216512

So Brianna is shilling for his friend's kickstarter, a playing card deck featuring the heroes of modern feminism. Or rather, Brianna Wu and friends. The asking price to produce this? $22,500.

https://archive.is/6ju8N

 

[HickoryDickory]

Are they each getting paid for their likenesses to be used or what? I'm guessing artists as the legit bulk, but... I'm involved in an art project producing decks for mental health awareness, no way is it going to cost that much. They'd be better off each drawing self-portraits and putting effort in out of CHARITY, and selling the decks for CHARITY. Not a dumb vanity project for Wu and Co.

...Although, I would now like to see Jace getting his hands on a deck and showing Queen of Sharts Wu a thing or two.

Edit:
The girls art should NOT take around 3 hours per portrait considering they're floating heads with flat backgrounds.

 

[GREEDY FIREMAN]

http://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/595655466497216512

So Brianna is shilling for his friend's kickstarter, a playing card deck featuring the heroes of modern feminism. Or rather, Brianna Wu and friends. The asking price to produce this? $22,500.

https://archive.is/6ju8N

Spoiler: Really, now?

 

[Commodore B.S.]

@Rogowski

Well. Here it is.
It has almost $4.5K pledged already.

 

[Sarcastic Username]

I seriously doubt Wu is competent to port anything, ever, so it will simply never happen unless Wu manages to steal some more money to pay someone competent to do it.

She is a WORLD EXPERT at UNITY ON MOBILE.

 

[HickoryDickory]

Time: 38 minutes
Medium: MSPaint using a laptop trackpad

Spoiler

I still got a better likeness and never bothered to shade properly seeing as the artist for the deck admits she doesn't do all of her shading.

And I don't even digital art.

 

[LegoTugboat]

Been sperging in chat over this, but... ugh.

There's so many minor things that get to me over this 'feminist deck', like the fact that Moviebob is a female symbol of femenity. (Could he be a joker?) And the fact that the artist herself is also going to be included in the deck.

There's no actual mockup of the deck box or any cards. And the fact that the amount she requires could produce 4 different professionally made decks with professional artists, with change.

If any Kiwis are desperate for an all female deck which isn't all nude, I know there's a tarot deck from the 1970s which has mostly women in it.

Edit - In the Q&A, it says that the core decks won't have suits. Only the backer deck at $100 will.

 

[pickledance]

I wouldn't say all coders use flow-charts, but most will use flowcharts or something similar when designing the flow of their program and its functions/objects. It's strange that the "head of development" of a software development company doesn't know what a flowchart is. Even if not coding, then surely flowcharts would be used for mapping out the stories or designing the game logic. It's as if this "software company" consists of a self-absorbed irritant/artist, an animator, a guy who writes stories, but nobody who can actually develop software.

Edit: extended rant.

Spoiler

I was taking a look at their mission statement for this game: http://revolution60.com/page1/

"I feel like there's a huge gap in the market right now," says Brianna Wu, head of development. "Players are craving narrative. And tech is advanced enough that we can deliver. When I think about the most moving experiences I've had in game, they all had to do with character and story."

This is not a tech-heavy game. Compare their game to Dead Trigger (YouTube play through link), which was released two years before Revolution60.

Not long afterwards, Maria Enderton, a classmate with Warner from BU-CDIA, was added to the team as lead programmer. Working together, the three started to unravel Unreal iOS, a technology few developers had experience with.

They used Unreal Engine 3. Revolution60 was released in 2014, with development beginning in 2011. People had been released Unreal Engine 3 games on iOS since at least 2009. Granted it's in 2012 we saw a big jump, but they make it seem as if they were Raiders of The Lost Engine.

"There are tons of developers with Unreal experience," said Wu. "But we kept running into all these problems no one had solved on mobile before. Like female hair. It's pretty, but it's very computationally expensive. We had to figure out how to rig the hair in ways that would not break the framerate of the iPad."

Oh fucking bullshit! They're not modelling strands of hair - the hairstyles are big objects and no different to modelling arms and legs. This is not computationally expensive. Watch this video. Look at the hair, how it moves, and ask yourself if this movement is at all significant when compared to the overall complexity of the scenes being rendered? To call out female hair, in this game, as being a challenge would be like Valve telling the story of how they finally found a way to have both a crowbar and decent frame rates in HL2.

I don't hate the game. It's vaguely entertaining for a short while. I just don't think it's a particularly good game, and I think their comments on their challenges reads like a teenager's resumé.

The hair thing is BS, there is no reason to have physics on it to begin with when the camera angles and shit are set. It's a better option to pre-animate that shit instead of rendering it in game via physics. There's a reason no one ran into that issue before and it's because most devs wouldn't bother to go out of their way to have it rendered in game real time when it's easier and faster not to and produces arguably better results.

 

[Positron]

http://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/595655466497216512

So Brianna is shilling for his friend's kickstarter, a playing card deck featuring the heroes of modern feminism. Or rather, Brianna Wu and friends. The asking price to produce this? $22,500.

https://archive.is/6ju8N

I guess more people will support it if it were a dartboard, or a pin-cushion.

 

[_blank_]

So soon we can have a deck of cards that has pictures of Brianna, Bob Chipman, Randi Harper, AND Sarah Butts on them? That's like a lolcow Who's Who! Sign me up! I will give me them all the monopoly money.

 

[LegoTugboat]

So soon we can have a deck of cards that has pictures of Brianna, Bob Chipman, Randi Harper, AND Sarah Butts on them? That's like a lolcow Who's Who! Sign me up! I will give me them all the monopoly money.

Not an actual deck, since they won't have suits or numbers. It's more card sized artwork.

Although I want to see them fight over who is king and queen.

 

[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

Not an actual deck, since they won't have suits or numbers. It's more card sized artwork.

Although I want to see them fight over who is king and queen.

To be fair, a lot of the guys are queens! Wakka wakka wakka!
I'm so sorry....

 

[Yellow Yam Scam]

http://tweetsave.com/spacekatgal/status/595655466497216512

So Brianna is shilling for his friend's kickstarter, a playing card deck featuring the heroes of modern feminism. Or rather, Brianna Wu and friends. The asking price to produce this? $22,500.

https://archive.is/6ju8N

You guys even see that scam where a conman goes to a school and holds a "poetry contest," and then the kids all submit poetry, right? Then, a month later, they all receive letters (at their home address) saying that their poetry was genius and that they've been selected to be featured in SO AND SO'S CHRONICLE OF YOUNG POETS, a very elite and important anthology of poetry.

So the parents get all excited, right? Then they turn the letter over and it says that for ONLY $150, they can own a copy of this beautiful, leather-bound anthology, and have evidence, finally, that your shitty little kid is worth a damn. And shit, if you want 3 copies? We'll give you 3 for the price of 2, no big deal! So all these dumbass parents go ahead and buy like 6 copies of this worthless book just because their kid's poem appears in it so that they can show it off at the next PTA meeting, only to find out that literally every other kid in the school district who submitted a poem is also in it.

That's basically what these trading cards are. It's "Hey, here's a thing that will make you (Brianna Wu, Randi Harper, whoever) look good, so promote it to all your followers and donate some money to us!" It's not really a "scam" though, since I'm pretty sure BWU and the like understand exactly what's going on, and they'll promote it so that if it succeeds, it's another thing they can point to to say that they're a big deal.

 

[D.Angus]

So if they're starting a Feminism deck of cards.. Does that mean we can start making a Kiwi themed deck?

 

[Dr. Boe Jangles Esq.]

So if they're starting a Feminism deck of cards.. Does that mean we can start making a Kiwi themed deck?

I am in favor of this idea. We could have little quotes at the bottom. I can see @Surtur now:
"I will track you down and beat you with the empty jar of moonshine I had to consume to survive your shit posts."

 

[Surtur]

I am in favor of this idea. We could have little quotes at the bottom. I can see @Surtur now:
"I will track you down and beat you with the empty jar of moonshine I had to consume to survive your shit posts."

Pretty much.