Project Spark

Started by Darren Dirt, December 04, 2017, 03:57:40 PM

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Darren Dirt

So... today I discovered this, which has been around for 3 years!

It's like a game/world builder that has a lot of flexibility in what kind of genre of games can be made (and presumably quite easily, based on some videos I skimmed). It's like Spore meets Minecraft, kinda.


https://gaming.youtube.com/game/UCnJl34Zh4hc8nBHk7w8ziKA


Here's their "Top 25 creations one year later" (aka back in 2015) -- I wonder what's come out in the 2 years since?
https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=nPenVqIcFgc
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Darren Dirt

oops.

never mind.

Thanks, Microsoft... I guess?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT5t8cbALZQ
https://gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=-eKqwrXiPFU

(middle-end of 2016, this high-creativity toolkit was shut down by MS).



"Project Spark is the most user-friendly game creation suite to date, enabling one to be crafted with less work than anything else like it on the market"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Spark#Reception

...seems to be very much on topic with what we had talked about on the weekend. Sad that it lived such a short life!
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Mr. Analog

Yeah sadly Microsoft decided to try and funnel devs into making apps for their Windows Store ecosystem and kinda took a big poo on everything else...
By Grabthar's Hammer

Darren Dirt

Quote from: Mr. Analog on December 04, 2017, 04:01:44 PM
Yeah sadly Microsoft decided to try and funnel devs into making apps for their Windows Store ecosystem and kinda took a big poo on everything else...

Accidental-on-purpose Conker reference??

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2015/03/19/new-conker-game-coming-to-project-spark-april-23

:(

Sometimes I hate being older and busy/balanced with my life, realizing many years later how uniquely cool some gaming events were that I completely missed at the time.

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Mr. Analog

I think that's the FoMO effect, I get that too, but sometimes I'm just not ready to do thing when I could do thing. The main thing is to say to myself "is this a project I want to try doing" and then if the answer is "yes" the next thing I say to myself is "when" and put it in my calendar / Trello.

When the thing comes close I review with myself "do I want to do thing still?" sometimes the answer is no and I shelve it.

TBH I think it would be more fun to try something new and fail at it and know that at least I dabbled in it than not do it and think about how sweet it would have been if I had tried... that said I'm on the fence with this comic project I've been cookin' up. I think I'm gonna do 10-20 pages next year make and then see how that goes after that
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Darren Dirt

I guess I am overall VERY happy with the choices I have made in my life re. time/activities/relationships. Everything comes with a cost, and choosing to live Real Life means you passed on the opportunities that escapism activities offered when you chose.

So overall not really sad, just kinda bittersweet to see how fast things advanced from the mid-1980s days of Populous/Powermonger to now.

And hey I guess now in 2017-2018 with affordable high-quality consumer-level VR any of us can be Slartibartfast!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyloK6zPVc

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Mr. Analog

Well the flipside of course is allocating a small but consistent amount of leisure time to any given hobby.

People ask me how I got so good doing some things and the answer is basically I just never stopped for years on end.
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