Goodbye Volcano High - "The Future of Gaming", The Parody Game of the Beloved Snoot Game Franchise

carltondanks said:
https://playbackonline.ca/2019/12/13/cmf-commits-7-1m-across-10-digital-media-projects/ (https://archive.md/XZUUg)

KO_OP Mode’s interactive narrative game Project Fang nabbed $1,224,632,
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HOLY SHIT! I'm not a great artist but I can shill out crap like that any day for that cash.
And it'll be about an intersex Mammoth finding about how they can be a productive member of their species, after their mother dies.
It'll be called Ma-Mother's Luv.
The player character gets left behind by their herd and speared by cro magnons
 
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carltondanks said:
Not sure if it was mentioned, but this game received money from the Canadian media fund
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I didn't know that, but it explains so much. Tale of Tales survived by farming government grants and producing shit.

It's a shame, because I can understand the logic for arts grants, but shit like this is why I'm against them.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
I didn't know that, but it explains so much. Tale of Tales survived by farming government grants and producing shit.

It's a shame, because I can understand the logic for arts grants, but shit like this is why I'm against them.
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I don't know. I'd rather stuff like the canadian media fund exist because we usually get either great stuff like trailer park boys, or hilarious shit like goodbye volcano high. It's literally a state sponsored furry game, that's funny to me
 
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Judge Dredd said:
I didn't know that, but it explains so much. Tale of Tales survived by farming government grants and producing shit.

It's a shame, because I can understand the logic for arts grants, but shit like this is why I'm against them.
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Well, at least they shit terrible games that streamer can laugh at it so there is a win in all of this
 
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Judge Dredd said:
I didn't know that, but it explains so much. Tale of Tales survived by farming government grants and producing shit.

It's a shame, because I can understand the logic for arts grants, but shit like this is why I'm against them.
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Same with The Chinese Room, they made Dear Esther and Everyone's Gone to the Rapture. The British couple running that shitshow were crying about Brexit because they wouldn't get their free EU art money anymore. I read an article that was supposed to be sympathetic to their plight but they just came off as entitled shits and the reason development of their "games" cost so much and took so long was because they acted like entitled shits to their employees but played it off as artistic brilliance and perfectionism.
 
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carltondanks said:
Not sure if it was mentioned, but this game received money from the Canadian media fund
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Plenty of games do. I believe The Long Dark did too, and that game is great. (The devs are kind of wokefags, but the game is great.)

It's fucked up when a patron-like system doesn't allow artists to create daring, interesting, personal art but instead enables them to create virtue-signaling shit nobody wants.
 
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Mooger Meng said:
I won't go so far as to say they should give up entirely - if you want to get better at something, you've got to practice, after all - but just about any western dev trying to make a VN is going about it all kinds of wrong. In the spirit of staying on topic, let's keep it to the curious case of Volcano High (as a goddamn kite):

1) Playing coy about being a VN: Stop this shit. Trying to dance around the fact you're making a VN doesn't help you, and won't fool anyone who isn't interested in the genre to pick it up. VNs continue to be a niche genre, and being ashamed of associating with them does you no favors. Just call a spade a spade, and it will hurt less in the long run.
2) Scattershot planning: Fuck, even calling it "scattershot" is being generous - if you're still looking for writers, your shit is not ready, period. Get your act together before you try and trot your product out, or you're just going to further turn away the already-niche audience for VNs for the Jap products made by dedicated turboNEETs and translated by legions of thirsty otaku who manage to be more consistent than you while avoiding human contact and basic hygiene as much as your potential furry audience.
And the big one, tying back into the both of these?
3) BE HUMBLE: You are not, by any metric known to mankind, the first devs to make a fucking VN. As stated, Jap VNs have been around for a long goddamn time, and they'll still be around long after your shit passes from the goldfish brain that is the gaming news cycle. The ancestors of most of the VN devs from Moonland could very well write fucking circles around you and your product without trying, and they're fucking dead. Other, better products than yours have risen and fallen long before your brain diarrhea ever made it onto Notepad, and acting like you're making some bold, exciting new product that is unknown to the world will fucking torpedo your product in the eyes of anyone who actually cares about the genre. You don't have to be sniveling lickspittles to pull this off - just recognize that you're presenting an alternative product, be thankful and respectful of the audience you do have, and do not shit on your forebears through dismissive hubris.

I think the biggest thing for western devs is just not to be infuriatingly ignorant about VNs if they choose to make one. Hell, I know this much about VNs and I really, really do not like them! If they learn their shit (and stop writing like they all have brain worms) it would be a good starting point to Not Suck™.
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I actually like VNs. But I don't think I have played any western ones that weren't trash save for a very short one with nice pencil sketch graphics. It was about New York. I also played a short one about two people that fall in love while looking for a dog in the park. But I think the reason why I enjoyed them was that they were short, simple stories without any identity politics. But they are both probably 15 years old so...

Western VNs are way too full of genderspecialism and virtue signalling. It seems like the genre is totally overtaken by that in the West. It seems like every western VN dev is a smug arsehole who thinks their "game" is the greatest thing ever because "muh representation". I think that the tumblr crowd is so over represented in these things that they need to STFU about having zero visibility in gaming now.

Look at how serious the devs of ValiDate take themselves. They claim to be representing muh Pee Oh Cees yet that cannot even get a basic handle on what biracial people actually look like. No one looks like their ethnic mixes unless black is mixed in there. Making everybody as black as the event horizon then saying they got some Chinese in there or something is not representation.

They only good character is Malik. And I think we aren't really supposed to like him. :lol:

I think these things are sometimes worth it just for the hilarity of their existence.

You want to make a passable VN? First try to not breathing in your own farts.:roll:
 
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random 4chan thread talking about the game in limbo, and it's another episode of "shitposters talking about the game accidentally make up plotlines more compelling than paid so-called professionals":

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The joke is that this game is going to get directly compared to 13 Sentinels when it releases, and almost all of the comparison points make this game look like shit and 13 Sentinels look even better. Is SNOY trying to sabotage their own console in order to push more sales of the PS4 right before they shift to the next console generation? Outside of your usual commie socialist degeneracy peddling at any cost (even the eventual failure of your company), I can't understand why SNOY would do this.
 
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St8Bustah said:
The joke is that this game is going to get directly compared to 13 Sentinels when it releases, and almost all of the comparison points make this game look like shit and 13 Sentinels look even better. Is SNOY trying to sabotage their own console in order to push more sales of the PS4 right before they shift to the next console generation? Outside of your usual commie socialist degeneracy peddling at any cost (even the eventual failure of your company), I can't understand why SNOY would do this.
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Sony's been losing it for a while, giving up more developers than they've gained. Microsoft will BTFO Sony especially since they own most of PC gaming (OS wise.)
 
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St8Bustah said:
The joke is that this game is going to get directly compared to 13 Sentinels when it releases, and almost all of the comparison points make this game look like shit and 13 Sentinels look even better. Is SNOY trying to sabotage their own console in order to push more sales of the PS4 right before they shift to the next console generation? Outside of your usual commie socialist degeneracy peddling at any cost (even the eventual failure of your company), I can't understand why SNOY would do this.
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This is incorrect. This game is going to be quickly forgotten about because it looks like it's getting a Digital Only release and the big thing they're pushing is the DES Remake for launch.

Meanwhile 13 Sentinels has a physical release in all regions

You type in Demon's Souls into Amazon you get the PS5 version

You type in Volcano High and you get Coolio.

The french canadian fucks are getting what they deserve, and even then it may not be enough because Qubec is just that bad.
 
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That dinosaur Fang thingie makes me recall a closed specie I saw being sold on deviantart for astronomical amount of money.

P. S. : still waiting for Squeenix to realise they need to make a DQ boss dating sim. Now that would be something everyone's gonna play!
 
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Marissa Moira said:
Supposedly the feathers means she's evolving into her one true self.

Evolution is a transgender puberty analogy but it's only happening to her because OC Donut Steel.
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Lol, comparing self sterilization to evolution. The only thing trannies evolve into is “that weird decadent culture” future generations are warned about.
 
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