players will definitely be able to get water using a pot before Christmas.
I don't think anyone suggested he was or is surprised by it. Just that there's no reason he needs to waste time dealing with people who can't tell the difference. With A21, when he said when he hoped to see A21 released, they very extremely clear that it wasn't a guarantee and was only an estimation and people still said that he said it would definitely be out when he said. It kind of reminds me of the movie Willy Wonka with the song during the golden goose part... "I want it now!"
I've got a truckload of coal already saved up from a lifetime of being an @%$#. Maybe we could be business partners?
....and now according to this thread, I've just promised that players will definitely be able to get water using a pot before Christmas.
If that's the reason I have absolute sympathy for that.
To be honest I'd be surprised if that's correct considering it's been ten years and on the front of actually getting anything done it's been extremely difficult. Handling that and not being stressed would be impressive. But to clarify my skill set it's game systems engineering and i've yet to see an ambitious project like this be taken with grace, everyone on the software side alone would normally be arguing since at least in the non AAA space you have a majority of game programmers obsessed with doing OOP everything to the extreme almost to the obsession of uncle bob, there's nothing in this game that's been batched yet so far that i've seen in the code base. Which is the direct cause of slow dev times and runtimes. I'm not joking that doing that alone would multiply productivity by probably about 5x, if the architecture was actually planned and had it's metal tested ground up (though to be fair it's late for that now) it could easily be double that. It's just very hard to find anyone whom understands this and isn't working at say blizzard. Usually when I bring this up to other indie game programmers the common response is to resort to belittlement, no kind of dialog what so ever. AAA companies will never seriously risk or innovate least not at large scale it's up to the indies and medium sized companies to actually take up the mantle. I do very much wish to get into contact with the team working on this and exchange perspectives. I should've done so a couple years ago but only now actually have an opensource project to actually demonstrate the experience and points I have to make.No, it's all good. I was making a Star Wars reference joke based on your use of the word "sense". The TFP work environment is not anywhere close to the toxicity you are surmising.
The developers, artists, programmers, and QA staff are all very friendly, helpful, and collaborative with each other, and are in daily communication with each other on both business matters and fun outside-the-scope-of-work matters. Nobody is eating even a little bit of @%$#. Your attempt to analyze the inner-workings of TFP based on a thread full of posts by people not associated with TFP did make me smile and I suspect that you are projecting at least some of your own workplace experience/conditions into your view of what it must be like behind the scenes at TFP.
And I've never been hesitant about speaking my mind here on the forums...haha
Even if there were the problems you suspected, the owners would be more likely to seek help from professional consultants to improve the workplace culture than to comb the public forum of fans of their zombie game for advice. As a high school teacher, I work a lot with autistic folks and typically they just need to know when they've overstepped the bounds of appropriate social behavior or misunderstood subtle sarcastic humor as sincere earnest dialogue. I appreciate where you are coming from in your desire to help in any way possible but it isn't an appropriate gesture and it's not even necessary.
