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I get the feeling with the big players involved that it's a quid pro quo thing between them and Sony. Just business. Just kind of weird they announce it like that. It's a studio that has done nothing. I wouldnt mind if they bought a well known studio. I mean I've literally worked on more released games than them 😂
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Sounds like they were being funded by Sony from the start. The announcement is still weird. Makes sense for Sony since they said they were looking for service games to add to the portfolio but I don't think anyone outside Sony will care.
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I came up with the idea for half life but Gabe Newell stole it from me. That then lead to creative lead on the ace combat series.
Joking aside, it was a now delisted game on ipad. Harry's Magic Tables. I coded the game part of the project by myself. Not much evidence of it, I think cnet has an entry on it.
Not the most prestigious of triple A games but I'm proud of it. The turn around time was about 4 months. The project was going to be scrapped because the team had promised too much in terms of the game but I got drafted on board because I told them I could code the AI for the game. It was kind of weird that I was drafted in to save the project as everyone else had computer science degrees of some sort and I was the only one that could do it with a 6 month crash course in coding.
It was part of the springboard courses so was essentially slave labour. Anyway it was handed over to gill and McMillan on time. And to my surprise it managed to sail through apple certification with no changes to my code. The app got a bit of press which might still be online as it was chosen to represent the course as it was the only games project that actually got completed let alone released. Unfortunately the publisher had this idea they could charge Minecraft prices for it so they priced it out of the market and by the time they lowered the price the press had well died down.
Anyway I enjoyed working on it even though I killed myself working 16 hours every day of the week to get it out the door. Proud of it. Then couldn't get into the industry as everything was a start up and they wanted me to work for free as the recession was in full swing.
Ireland isn't exactly a hub of triple A development but was fun being in it for a while and seeing how it worked and working in a properly managed dev team. Did a few game jams as well which were fun. Just the whole working for dole money and then being asked to work for free for every job wasn't appealing after I'd spent a year on the dole.
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What I learned from coding is that even the simplest looking app can be quite complicated. I'm sure it was a decent chunk of work. I wouldn't be surprised if your soundboard got more downloads than Harry's!
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The funniest moment I had was when the entire class turned against the lecturer who used to work for Sierra during a class. He was explaining how they used to pick which games got the bigger marketing budget and then the class figured out he was basically admitting that he was the one that shafted Homeworld out of its marketing budget and sent it out to die.
He was a decent guy and knew his stuff but there were a lot of Homeworld fans in the class!
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Started up by a trinity lecturer and some students he hired. They had or might still have a small office in the digital hub on James street but they've been bought by Microsoft so not sure where they are now.
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Oh its all the governments fault. During my time in the industry Canada was blowing up in terms of game dev because of tax cuts and they were poaching talent and developers. The UK government really screwed up by refusing to introduce their own tax cuts for their own videogame industry. So the Irish games industry was lobbying politicians to take the opportunity to introduce Irish tax cuts and poach UK talent and developers.
But being Irish politicians with no foresight they let the opportunity get away from them and the UK brought in their own cuts.
Another big reason is the lack of coding in Irish schools. The UK was on the ball introducing coding into the curriculum in the 80s. Pretty sure Ireland still hasn't. As a result you have a lot of uk coders in the industry that got their start with assembly on microcomputers and their coding stills are ahead of most other coders that learn higher level languages. There also so really great development studios over there for triple A games.
We did have Funcom Dublin. Seanseanson has a great YouTube video on them.
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