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That's a great idea. I like this idea a lot. Why don't u like it?

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What do you mean what point? I'm replying to all the burns I get, and also plz stop the burns people! But as for this thread.. well then you should read the first post--that is--I would like to work at Nintendo. And it ended when I got advice to go to digipen since they are situated in same building as Nintendo is the US.. from there on it has more or less turned into a burn thread in cycles, people coming in, burning, feeling a bit silly, goes away, new people coming in, burning... like that.. basically a zen burn cycle.. I hope that was a good enough answer to you, and I now feel that I've churned out a lot of energy explaining myself, explaining this thread, and that makes me feel stupid... lol, yeah I agree with you on this, but at the same time.. you came in very late, and the thread had already come to an end, so... Obviously the one thing I disagree with you on is that I know crap.. but I still agree with people here that the best way to ever be able to get a job at nintendo would be to start at digipen in the us or some similar institution... At the same time this annoys me since I would have hoped it could go more swift than that, since some of the game ideas are already worked out, so.. but that's just tough luck, and as some would say unrealistic.

I feel sorry for your dad, what the hell do u want me to write here? I still hold on to what i wrote previously though, so... tough luck.. Or did I break your heart now? Do you feel like your whole childhood goes to smithers because I'm saying that a good programmer doesn't dislike his profession? You don't think I know programmers who have a very analytical mind and like what they're doing? Ok.. well.. I do.. so.. shit happens, shit sometimes get spelled out to you... and to hell with me if that makes you feel sad then.. Anyhow, nice burn with the letter? Or is it just me but I just get a little bit sad when people constantly burn, probably just me since people on videogame forums just love to burn people.. well.. tough shit i guess...

errr... no, I'm not. And that's the second issue isn't it? U think that to be a gamedesinger you must also be great at programming, and if you don't learn good programming skills then there is no way that you would ever be taken seriously by people who you want to get hired by... someone of you here are probably taking difficult programming courses just to get inside the industry you cherish, even though you don't like to program... Here's the problem though, a good programmer actually likes to program, he/she doesn't do it to get inside the industry they like, they do it because they like to program, if you're looking at it in any other way you're just being cute. And just like there are celebrities among authors, musicians there's celebrities among programmers... John Carmack, Bill Gates... so, I hope we can come to an agreement of understanding here...

But that whole thing with the surgeon analogy isn't working, I explained that over at cubed-3 as well and they seemed to agree with me.. and what I think is unjust with that analogy is that a gamedeveloper has more in common with an author of books than with a surgeon... I mean, if ure a wannabe surgeon and operate on a patient, that patient might die because the surgeon hadn't studied medicin.. but an author doesn't really need to have studied at a university where they lecture in the "art of writing", I mean Hemingway wrote from the heart he hadn't exactly been studying "the art of writing" prior to writing his most known work... But I agree that a gamedeveloper ought to know some basic programming skills so that he/she doesn't get completely lost at weekend meetings with the development team... that's it. haha, ok, well then that makes sense. Well, I guess that making music, and only music, for games would be like my last resort, I mean if you listen to my music it doesn't very much sound like video game music, or mood setting, atmospheric music, it's more like hiphop beats or.. some strange other kind of music, so I'm not sure if I would be that great at videogame music, but it's none the less a more realistic aim since I'm already pretty decent in making music. And I don't think I've tried making videogame music yet actually...

This right here--that's going on right here--is insanity, it makes me feel a bit like "what's the point, why develop games that people like, when people in general, with group mentailty are insane? For the person with a heart of stone an easy answer would be "I'm doing it for myself, to please myself" and yeah, that's somewhat true, but on the internet you just get the feeling that people write what they feel deepest inside, and to be honest that's not a pretty picture, I'm getting a bit afraid of people when visiting videogame forums like these... are people really evil deepest inside, but when you meet them outside of the internet they "put on a disguise". And a guy like the Bard, how geeky isn't it to reference Zelda like that? Ok so screw that, I'm a geek as well, I just think that you all suck (everyone who wrote burns at me for now real reason), and that makes me doubt whether or not I should really even continue trying to aim at getting to develop games...

If it resembled the snes version in terms of overall gameplay feel, with speed and camera placement, thickness of the race track and such, I'd probably buy it. It would be cool if some of the tracks were interactive, as in having the ground being made up of circles in some areas that turned, so that ud had to adjust your driving a bit. I guess tracks like bowser caslte is similar in that sense.

I'm just a guy who wants to make games, but can't, and that's a bit frustrating. I can for example do music on my own, so it's irritating to not being able to do games, it's just too much work for one person... and yeah, I understand why nintendo doesn't want me because I'm not good at anything. So there you have it...................

that's funny and cool track editor that's cool customizable karts is cool, how about earning specific parts for your kart in story mode "levels" like those in ds, but where the "level" would reflect the kind of part ud earn if completing the "level"...

Somehow that little piece of information had slipped me, and that definitely puts things in perspective, yeah, now I'm definitely getting interested in Digipen... well, I'll see what I'll do, wonder if the last day for application is possible... and even if you're more of an "idea guy" and not great at painting or composing, would you still find a place there, you think?

Yeah, I've heard about Digipen I even have a vague memory of mailing them about how much it cost and things like that, and I got a nice reply but since I don't have money myself for that, and since I'm still more into making music than games I passed on it, but I mean sure, I could probably begg for money and as for music vs gamedesign it's really just a matter of what you dedicate your creativity to I guess so... sorry but rarely save a mail, this one I didn't save, so you can't see what I wrote to nintendo.. I'm good at math and computing as well actually, I've played shitloads of Big Brain Academy and Brain Training.. hehe.. Yeah, I definitely would need some programming knowledge, I mean even if u were a music composer for games you'd still need to know some rudimentary knowledge of programming so that you could understand some of what was said in weekly meetings with programmers, designers, artists, the lot... Other than that, no you don't really need to be able to program... thx, here's my acount number: 132-GIVE-ME-TONS-OF-MONEY-8659 ;]

The first thing I would do as.. something.. over at Nintendo would be to grace every VC game on wii with a new title screen, a screen that said: "UK go to bed, mommy is angry with you!" hehehe :P and by the way, what's the point with burning when the thread starter, me that is, has already written that I agree with people that I have no qualification to get the job... [sarcasm/] is old... this is like a burn-burn: a burner being burnt by who he burnt in the first place!! uhhhhh!! burn-burn!! burn-burn!! burn-burn!! Yeah, yeah, I'm a night cleaner, or was that is.. I got fired, but I'm going to an interview this week for a new cleaner job vacation, so hopes are high that I get this because i soooo love to clean! Nintendo didn't even want an interview because they have so many that apply apparently, oh well...

oh, so being a fan isn't enough then? ok... thx for information about university Chris, but then I'd have to begg for money to go to something I'm not sure I'd fit in to, since I'm not great a painting (I painted constantly when I was young but nowdays I rarely do it, it's more making music now) I think I'm better at making music even if I'm pretty bad at that too, so... oh well...

24 / none, apart from 9-5 jobs / some kind of game design job / yes, and no this is not a joke Try starting small is a good advice but then you'd still need someone to work with and no friend of mine is interested, I'm sure.

yes you could but my application wasn't anywhere near as silly as the above post, you have my word on that.

That's soooooo not funny!!! (( What should I do? Sue them? Or mail Sony and ask them for a job, make games for games [EDIT: for Sony], and then point the finger at Nintendo and laugh them in their face? ha ha ha ha!... (

A person who wants brawl rather than kart could import it from the US, no? But I guess the question here has to do with whether or not Nintendo strategy is a smart move, that's what people are discussing, right?

If Nintendo stripped off all the weapons in the races, and only kept them in the battles... then maybe... lol, I'm only kidding, anyhow, I normally wouldn't care much about any of the games, but after seeing the Z:PH commercial with that detailed Link, I got a feeling that the graphics in MK Wii will be amazing, but I don't know. I hope they will have ExciteTruck controls as an option though, but MK will probably be great, but yeah, as someone mentioned... the blue shell, man, that's annoying, lol BTW, as for Brawl, I mean, if it has Q Entertainment somewhere there in the blood veins, then that game will probably be awesome as well, I don't know the name of the guy heading the production of that title, but I have good faith in him, he has a good sense of style, and yeah.. Meteos has a very funny style.. anyhow, enough of me rambling.. :P Sorry, read your post after I had posted, so... but great idea with the throwing motion for weapons, yeah, that's better than ExciteTruck controls, definitely EDIT: I bet a 100 bucks on that the game will have 2 player co-op as in the gc version, and one steering with the remote, and the other throwing weapons with the remote, but we'll see.. good post nando, great idea!

That would work, but I don't think Nintendo would like it, and that's somewhat understandable, they want to have a new, cool control scheme, so mimicking a mouse that works in 2D isn't maybe something they'd go with, but here's hoping, I think it's a great idea, although it's of course a bit difficult to slide around with a wiimote on a table, but still definitely better than the invisible box.

Hold a button to turn? That doesn't make any sense, lol, why would you need to do that? As I understand it the only problem is that when you're dealing with a pointing device a 1:1 ratio becomes unbearable, but also the only way... so there's the problem, a small irritating problem that makes developers turn to the invisible box that apparently also was around during the last generation of videogame consoles...

Yeah, that's what I thought the problem was as well.. but the thing is... hm... Wouldn't be able to see the screen? True, the telly wouldn't be able to "translate" what you did with the remote so to speak.. you would really need to have an all encompassing telly in your living room or wherever your telly is located.. Put it this way, to make it more easier to comprehend. The remote combined with the nunchuck is in actuality the ultimate gadget for VR equipment, when u look around with a vr headset having a wiimote in your hand means that you can instantly point and click at something you're looking at, and the nunchuck allows you to move about in the vr world. when u ship the wiimote with a console that doesn't ship with a VR headset, the two products doesn't completely match when it comes to FPS types of games. The telly just isn't "VR enough".. the nunchuck slightly remedies this problem.. problem is, it all havocs into some kind of bizarre duckhunt meets wolfenstein... it's just not that great.. developers have tried to sidestep this issue by creating the invicible box, but the only thing that did was showing how poorly modern FPS games translates onto the wii. Ok, so this was just a long story that really didn't answer your question, and I actually think that you are right, it ought to be possible to have the wiimote work as a substitute to a mouse. After all, the infrared thingy on the wiimote--that makes it a very accurate pointing device--surely ought to be able to do mouselook. Can somebody explain why this isn't possible? I've never heard a good explanation to this.. so right now I'm a bit confused. If you want to shoot a guy behind you? Well.. just how you do it with a regular pc mouse configuration I guess... Sure... the above mentioned 1:1 ratio isn't that great when doing wiilook. After all, you don't have a particularly difficult 1:1 ratio with the mouse and the movement on the computer screen, but when it's a direct pointing device it gets a bit more jittery; the game would move very fast with a wiilook on the tv screen... Irritating, sounds like a very small problem, and that's why I don't really buy it... but I guess it must be true... isn't it just a question of a bit longer learning curv for FPS games?

Black silhouetted academy arts croud a la The Mask "Thank you! Thank you!" EDIT: it would be cool if n-europe used it as their logo :P but of course.. a lot snazzier looking than mine.. maybe like the text and the map over a globe (would mean an overdimensionized version of europe..) have the logo "3D protruding" a bit, and bending over the visible part of the globe.. cool.

well if u read it all you'll find parts about you in it, things like "i love eevil murray wohooo!"

why isn't it using two wiimotes? And become this 3D game instead... As in left remote controlling ships movement in 3D. Right remote controlling ships guns... in 3D as well. Wouldn't that be dope? "Sure, the game doesn't sport as many pixels as the 360 version but it's so much better anyhow, on so many levels"