Comments on: Love Gets Closer

By: Blizzard2

Blizzard2 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:30:19 +0000

@Tim

Look at his work on (uni-)verse , eskil seems to be really proficient in network architecture.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:26:47 +0000

@Dominic White

Personally I agree with the way he talks about controls in his blog… and I enjoy bunny hopping & skiing although no idea what you mean by wall-sliding unless it’s like in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.

I’m not a pro gamer (although I’m not quite sure how you’d define that), I just like those things. I think they add fun, and like Eskil says, make it feel more like you’re in control, making it a more personal gaming experience.

By: Larington

Larington — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:32:48 +0000

Well, being an independent, at least he’ll have an excuse for server downtime on day of release. Whereas there are plenty much bigger development teams that have summarily failed at such a task.

A stable mostly bug free MMO at release? What are the chances eh?… (That said LOTROs was pretty good and AoCs wasn’t bad, aside from failing to have a key element of the promised feature list in game from day of release of course).

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:13:48 +0000

I wonder if he’s a ‘genius’ at scalable server and network architecture too.. cause there’s so many people following this, I suspect not everyone will be able to play it when it goes live. Must be a tough thing for any indie, let alone an mmo.

By: Hmm.Hmm

Hmm.Hmm — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:48:56 +0000

Much love to come from Eskil Steenberg.

*cough*

By: Saul

Saul — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:03:49 +0000

Well, I’ve written poetry too– trying to cover all bases, see?

By: Tei

Tei — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:31:45 +0000

I am looking forward for this game. The graphics magnetize me, and the gameplay seems will be open and experimental enough to use it half as a toy, half as a game, in a good way. Or maybe I am wrong, but anyway sounds cool.

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:23:14 +0000

While I love the visual style of this game, and some of the overarching concepts sound great, the guy really seems to have a hardon for ‘pro’ gaming, ala bunnyhopping and wall-sliding and proto-skiing.

Such things might work great in the context of a tight deathmatch shooter played by very dedicated people with the reflexes of a hummingbird, but most people (and I’m talking about gamers in general – even action gaming types, not just the MMO crowd) really aren’t up to that kinda stuff. It looks weird and really only appeals to the most hardcore of perfectionists.

I really worry how things will turn out of he tries melding ultra-twitch ‘deliberately buggy’ FPS gameplay with a dynamic-world MMO.

By: Pags

Pags — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:55:40 +0000

He’s writing it so you can get their back bums wet.

YOU HEARD ME.

By: Meat Circus

Meat Circus — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:45:04 +0000

Eskil Steenberg is not writing this game just so you can get ladies’ front bums wet, you know.

FOR SHAME.

By: Squiff

Squiff — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:29:23 +0000

That’s what she said.

By: manintheshack

manintheshack — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:27:41 +0000

What? I love it when the comments turn sexy…