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       #Post#: 1646--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Catching Fire
       By: Walrus365 Date: February 10, 2014, 7:54 pm
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       Zen, don't do this.  I'll never sell my soul to those profit
       mongers.  But, in all seriousness, if you're serious about game
       design you should play a wide range of games, for nothing more
       then source material.  It helps show you what works, what
       doesn't and what has been done before, in order to keep your
       games innovative.  I personally don't have a ton of money to
       play games (I usually stick to a select few, when I do) but I
       watch anime, read books, and watch play-throughs of games in
       order to help expand my horizons.
       It is my opinion that you can't make innovative gameplay without
       playing video games, if you ever plan on going into this as a
       career.
       #Post#: 1647--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Catching Fire
       By: Zenwarrior54 Date: February 10, 2014, 7:57 pm
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       I was joking. It was making fun of how EA seemingly makes
       themselves the enemies of gamers.
       #Post#: 1648--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Catching Fire
       By: Omni_Builder Date: February 10, 2014, 7:58 pm
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       Being a game developer at EA must be kind of
       frustrating--clients and marketers seem even more annoying from
       inside the system. The book "The Art of Game Design" has an
       entire chapter devoted to working with clients, especially bad
       ones. In fact, the book relates a particularly funny story about
       the artist Michelangelo and one of his clients:
       [spoiler]Michelangelo was making a giant sculpture--it was
       covered in lots of scaffolding and a giant sheet so no one could
       see it unfinished--and his client wanted to see the progress.
       Michelangelo took the client under the sheet, so that they were
       looking straight up at the statue. The client said he didn't
       like the nose, and ordered Michelangelo to make it smaller.
       Michelangelo knew that the nose was perfect, and that it looked
       too big because they were viewing it from below--but his client
       didn't want to be argued with. So Michelangelo claimed that he
       could fix it easily and invited the client to see him in action.
       He scooped up some fallen dust and took the client up the
       scaffolding. Michelangelo gave the nose a few fake taps with his
       hammer while sprinkling the dust so that it looked like he was
       actually sculpting. When he revealed the nose, the client (who
       was now looking from the right angle) thought it was
       perfect.[/spoiler]
       Wait--this is supposed to be a Catching Fire thread, isn't it.
       Who would you rather work for: the Game Makers who design the
       Hunger Games, or EA?
       #Post#: 1679--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Catching Fire
       By: Topaz1116 Date: February 10, 2014, 11:37 pm
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       EA. At least I wouldn't be killing anyone...
       #Post#: 1680--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Catching Fire
       By: Omni_Builder Date: February 11, 2014, 12:49 am
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       Yeah, the job satisfaction for Game Makers must be pretty weird.
       "All my work will be worth it if I see just one tribute say 'Oh,
       hey, that's actually pretty neat!' before they die."
       #Post#: 1682--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Catching Fire
       By: Iaashadow Date: February 11, 2014, 7:49 am
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       Or EA, "Aw, how cute, seeing people complain is funny, Hey DICE,
       are you done with our new fps yet, we need it in 5 minutes!"
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