Comments on: Igualdade, Liberdade e Fraternidade

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By: Quests

Quests — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:51:42 +0000

Wow, talk about a piece of crap.

By: Raphael

Raphael — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:15:52 +0000

Tim, I totaly agree with you.

Seems like the UK is way out of this kind of games while France, Italy, USA and many others countries are constantly exploring their history on many great titles! Like you said, there are so many aspects to be explored and they could even get it out of books like they do with Tom Clancy. Bernard Cornwell’s work is a must-do!

By: Tim Stone

Tim Stone — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:41:16 +0000

Best of luck with the Bahia project Alexandre. It’s nice to see a studio amateur or otherwise rooting a games in local culture/history. Here in the UK we’re tripping over developers, but few seem brave or curious enough to explore the rich historical source material all around them. Who needs another story set in a hackneyed sci-fi/fantasy/post-apocalypse world when there’s mind-bogglingly exotic worlds like Seventeenth Century London or Anglo-Saxon Wessex sitting there virtually untouched.

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:34:34 +0000

Tim, I was a member of Triade too. It’s an educational game made with founds of government. The propose is make a game to teach History in school talking about French Revolution, because to take founds of government you need to make a project, and at the moment we’re preparing the project , the people whose write it, they had material talking about French Revolution, and it was easy to talk about it. And the French Revolution was too importing in Brazil, because it influenced so many history social movements here. But now, we are making a game of the history of Bahia.
best regards, and sorry about my English.

By: Tim Stone

Tim Stone — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:45:21 +0000

Greetings Triade Team! Lovely to see you here, and apologies if my “Probably not worth downloading” comment caused offence (It was less an assessment of quality, more an acknowledgement that people with no Portuguese probably wouldn’t have much fun playing your game)

Raphael: I stumbled upon Triade while doing some research into Southlogic (Brazil’s biggest games studio?)

Camila and Arivan: I understand that Triade was designed as an educational game, but why did you decide to base it on the French Revolution? Why not celebrate/explore Brazilian history?

By: Arivan

Arivan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:30:49 +0000

I was a member of the Triade project, and as my colleagues have spoken, I believe that a little
of context will help you to write a comment more constructive and less arrogant.

First, the Triade IS NOT a commercial game, and it was a pilot project. For a heavy-player, like you said,
not worth downloading, but it proposital is not that. If you downloaded the game thinking “I will play a French
revolution God Of War”, was your fault.

Second, projects for development of games engaged in social issues are not usually developed
for Brazilian games studios, like you said, but by academic initiatives, in most cases, experimentals.
The Brazilian games studios work more in mobile games and advergames market, and the games produced are competitive
and are being marketed worldwide. In case of serious games, as Rafael said, there is a big difference to the
Brazilian reality and the reality of Europe / USA, but the Brazilian industry is moving a lot.

Third, I think as the writer of a blog with so much visibility and respect, you should
have a larger basement to write your posts, understanding what you’re talking about.

best regards

By: Camila

Camila — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:03:13 +0000

Hello!

I think it is important before “judge” the game, knowing a bit of context. The Triade is not a commercial game, but we wanted him to approach the maximum that possible. A game for educational purposes and teaching, and believe that the scope of the school he is a spread, at least here in Brazil, where the educational technology resources are in most cases, boring and repetitive. The Triad has opened an unprecedented way here and I believe that this is proven, since out of all the boundaries of schools in Bahia, through the continent and was regarded as a common commercial game. That, to me that I was part of the team’s itinerary is not demerit, but PRIDE.
Hugs and apologies for poor English.
Camila

By: Raphael

Raphael — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:57:02 +0000

Hi there!

I’m a designer from the Tríade staff, and it makes me really happy to see that our game has come to be known by someone so far from home. Actualy, I’m very curious about how did you get to know our games.

The games commented in the post, and many others which are being produced here, are only going out to the public, because all the developers are making huge efforts.
Here in Brazil, we have many problems with getting resources to produce games. In a country with so many social and economic problems, it’s a real challenge to convince someone to sponsor this kind of project, specialy when it’s the kind of thing who needs a good amount of money. The solution to many of us was to use goverment fundings, or personal resources, wich are very limited, so we always tried to take the best results out of the time and money that we have.

It’s understandable that some of the comments doesn’t give the fair amount of credit for all of the jobs done here, because there is a huge gap between the realities of europe/USA and here. I’m pretty sure that we are making progress and that we are opening many doors to future game developers.

My best regards, and sorry for the bad english.

See ya.

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cowthief skank — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:31:26 +0000

Might give this a go as it may help my Portuguese studies. Always good to have stuff to read / watch, to learn the language, even if the game is shite.

Re the differences between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese, my teacher is Brazilian and one guy in the class frequently asks him to ‘correct’ himself as he wants to learn European…

By: alseT

alseT — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:23:47 +0000

I found an earlier and less polished version of CityRain over here for those who are interested. It’s the full game and freeware.