Comments on: RPS Exclusive: Dinner With Rod Humble

By: merchantfan

merchantfan — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:39:42 +0000

Interesting… I liked the star-thing in Animal Crossing, but I always kind of came out with these weird looking shapes. Then again, I suppose that was more realistic. I hope Mr. Humble’s kidding about the Sims 3 thing though. That goes against the nature of free form games. It might make sense if it only simulated one life, but an every generation of a expandable area? How does that end, atom bomb? This is why I probably won’t get Spore. Most games lose their playability after a while, but less goal-oriented games shouldn’t force you to stop.

By: Lisa2324

Lisa2324 — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:01:26 +0000

I thought this piece was well written. Good Job. Remember though: The cake is a lie.

By: TS3UK_Craig

TS3UK_Craig — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:50:26 +0000

Excellent interview, it was an excelent and interesting read.

Thanks a lot.

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:02:41 +0000

I really wish the Omnibus was from an obscure tornado game, because then I’d be clever. Sorry to disappoint…

By: hydra9

hydra9 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:00:52 +0000

Nice interview! I first encountered Mr. Humble’s name, though, when he was the producer of the brilliant vehicular mayhem simulator, Quarantine… which incidentally contained the hidden message ‘Rod…Humble…Is…Drunk…Again.’ ;)

By: JP

JP — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:24:47 +0000

<3 <3 <3

By: jwaap

jwaap — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:53:00 +0000

The hangover was a joke. :) Noone got it. They loved it. I should’ve made it worse.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:01:16 +0000

(Confusingly this machine thinks I’m Kieron).

Confusingly, I thought you were Kieron until I read that line, because I generally look at the Gravatar first – are you perhaps using the same (probably RPS-based) e-mail address as Kieron?

By: John Walker

John Walker — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:26:38 +0000

Don’t forget that in Pathologic, the Masks address you the player, not you the character. The rest of the NPCs talk to the character, but the Masks know more – and it confuses your character no end. And the Masks mock you every midnight by putting on a play based on what you did that day. (Confusingly this machine thinks I’m Kieron).

By: Cyrenic

Cyrenic — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:07:16 +0000

Kieron and Nicko: You guys remind me of the encounter in Baldur’s Gate 2, where a party of novice adventurers decide to attack you. You trounce them easily, but then a “reloading” message pops up and the encounter replays with the novice party deciding not to fight you. At least it lets you know how all those other NPC’s feel when you reload your game.

By: Tim E

Tim E — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:21:20 +0000

When eating with developers it is customary to document the food in exhaustive detail. John Walker is made of fail.

http://weekofsteak.blogspot.com/

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:57:21 +0000

Nicko: That’s awesome. I was planning on doing similar things with my DX mod the Cassandra Project. There was one puzzle I wanted to do which was impossible to do without re-loading after dying and, in the process, discovering a password, so when you get through the door the people you meet are “How on earth did you know the password?”. And your character starts to realise the truth of her existence, etc.

Games are great at nature of reality stuff, I think. Forget the Tolstoy – I want to see Games’ Kafka.