Randomness #1: Waiting.
I think waiting is a far worse position to be in than failure, because at least with failure you can make a new plan and start picking yourself up from the floor.
But I find myself in these last few days simply waiting for things to happen.
I’m waiting to hear back from nearly a dozen publishers, whom I’ve emailed on Spirits of Metropolis. So far, zero response. The sales on the main site are flat, and I need a portal/publisher to really get going on the sales. But so far…nothing. I’m waiting on the new website/art/music from various people, all of whom are working on the content and have shown me some great stuff in progress. I’m waiting on the results from the GM Competition 04 so I can start promoting greenTech in a larger spectrum. Waiting waiting waiting. Sigh.
Since then I’ve been looking to see if there’s any game competitions I might be able to enter, but no luck. If anyone has any links they could throw my way, that would be awesome. Till then, I’ll be working on the backlog of Dead Space, Call of Duty: World at War (a much better game than COD4 honestly), some PSN games including the upcoming Flower (I hope I’m in the credits again!) and Fat Princess.
Let’s laugh at chubigans #2,012: UMD Movie Reviews
Did you know I once had a UMD movie review website, and wrote over fifty UMD video reviews for IGN/Home Theater Forum before the entire market crashed? UMD movies being those little carts you’d play on PSPs.
Well I have to say that out of the 50+ reviews I wrote, I’m really proud of maybe six of them. And awfully embarrassed of the rest. Here’s some of my favorite quotes of mine:
“Schwarzenegger had Total Recall, and Stallone had First Blood. To miss either of these movies would be a shame since both present a fair amount of intelligence and depth.”
“This movie has tons of hilarious dialogue, and I love the message it contains…guns are for fools. Use fists instead. “
“When the movie ended, as I walked out of the theater, I turned to my friend who had the exact same expression on his face:
“That movie…was AMAZING.”
“I…wah…bah buh bee.””
“So Blade is about Wesley Snipes who kills vampires. See, he’s a vampire also, but only has the good traits of Vampirum (that’s a word, yeah? Yeah!) which allows him to kill about twenty vampires a minute. But unfortunately, “Time’s runnin out” before Blade’s serum that allows him not to feed off humans is rejected by his body, in which case I don’t know what happens. He becomes an even nastier vampire I guess. “
I never actually got compensated for those reviews, just all the free movies I could ever want. Those were the days.
Ugh, sounds a lot like what happened with Shellblast with none of the publishers responding. Hope things work out.
I hate how YoYoGames waits for like a month to actually announce the competition winners. I don’t know if it’s procrastination on the judge’s part or just the same ignorance that explains 99% of the site’s other miserable faults.
I love your blog and decided that it was finally time for me to join!
Anyways, here is one
http://s10.zetaboards.com/Zerosoft/topic/7067949/1/
I’d love to work on it with you If your willing. I check here daily but feel free to send me a PM at the GMC. I have the same username there.
Competition04 winners will be announced before the month is out, so it’ll be a week, tops. As for publishers, I’d try emailing them again. Make sure they know you’re both persistent and keen on your game being published. Also, I can’t believe I haven’t seen that PSP Film Review site until now. Seems pretty content filled 🙂
I hope you were joking about CoD: WaW being a better game than CoD4 😛
Why would you be in the credits of Flower? And what other games are you in the credits of?
fuzion: welcome to the blog! Thanks for that link, I’ll definitely check it out!
I was in the credits of flOw, thatgamecompany’s previous game, since I interviewed them in IGN. Since then I haven’t done a whole lot with thatgamecompany so I kinda doubt I’ll be in the Flower credits. 🙁
And COD4 was sooooo overrated.
heh. Like I said before, I’ll buy spirits as soon as I actually have money.
But you could always constantly re-email the publishers until they respond.
COD4 = Twice the price in Australia then America = Lame
I’ve already told you. That’s the Nicest Beaches Tax.
Here’s another competition:
http://www.tiaproductions.com/Competitions.html
By the way, there’s a forum dedicated to gamemaker competitions on the GMC (under community in the forums).
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=133480
Thanks calmelbourne! I’ll definitely check those out as well. 🙂
http://www.thepoppenkast.com/forum/index.php?topic=1028.0
this is a site for a competition its dead line is on 1 march so 🙂 good luck if u r going to enter
this link contain all rules
and the theme of the competition
Hope that u done well 🙂
I love u and ur games so much 🙂