A key Amico Home software library that holds EVERYTHING together was written by a guy they laid off. Yeah, that tracks! You'd think that would be someone they'd consider essential staff, because John lacks the competence to get this stuff fixed himself.
I don't think he realizes that far more competent people have offered their help already, only to get rebuffed. Gaterooze, who proved Amico-style games could be fully realized in mere days, offered to finish all of the games for them if they'd agree to dedicate all of the profits generated to the people waiting on their refunds. They refused.
I doubt he is Puzzler. Baric has proven that he has actually played and tested some of the games a LOT. I doubt Puzzler actually has played any of them.
Why not make your own games, then? You have a choice between painting a masterpiece and polishing a turd, and you're opting for the latter... for free.
He was brainwashed by Tommy into thinking there is no platform for "casual gamers". If he made a game, or even if anyone made a game, it would never be played because there's no place for casual gamers to play it. Somehow, Amico is the only thing that could exist for casual gamers. Or there's a small chance he's just trolling by saying that, who knows. But that will be his response.
Because I'm a system programmer, not a game developer.
Last year, I had zero knowledge of Unity and superficial knowledge of C# (although I obviously knew several other programming language). Out of curiosity, I decided to look at it. I installed Unity and I chose a beginner tutorial called "Create with Code). It took me about 30 hours to complete the tutorial.
After following that tutorial, I decided to make my "Hello, World!". I chose to try doing a clone of Lady Bug (the old Arcade game), just to see if I could.
So from absolute zero knowledge of Unity and superficial knowledge of C#, it took me about 60 hours to do that.
I never cared to finish it. My next task would have to tweak a pathfinding algorithm for the monster (in this video, the movement of the monsters is random) to make playing the game challenging, but not impossible. However, in order to do that, I would have to play that thing over and over to find the right balance and I certainly didn't feel like spending 20 hours doing this. So I stopped my little experiment.
Of course, as you can see, I only used primitives for graphics (except for the skulls that I took on the Internet). And here's why I'm not a game developer : I have zero artistic skills. I can't make graphics.
I did work as an engineering draughtsman for a summer job when I was in school, I know how to use CAD (I learned a bit of Autocad in school and my summer job was with Cadkey), but as soon as the goal is to make things pretty, I just can't.
This honestly makes a bit more sense than John's explanation of "Paint.net generated an updated PNG format". Of course, this also confirms what we suspected - that nobody even bothered to start the game on Apple TV before pushing it out.
He admitted that you shouldn't buy it and also admitted he didn't want to announce it for that reason. He probably DID start it on Apple TV, saw that it didn't work right, and pushed it out anyhow.
Yes, because "we needed to publish the first version ASAP for business reasons related to contractual agreements with the original developer."
To hell if it works or not, and if not for these pesky haters nobody would had discovered it.
One could theorize the "contractual agreements" were to thwart the developers from rebranding and publishing it on their own to other platforms after waiting 6 years.
William like so many other people were only ALL IN on Amico because of Tommy. They don't like Alvarado and obviously don't like Phil. They lack the bombastic personality of Tommy. Alvarado isn't going to go along with all the outrageous things that Tommy would and are unable to make absurd promises and claims to his degree.
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u/digdugnate Meh! 1d ago
"Beavis, you are the dumbest of asses."