Comments on: Gunpoint Art Style Mockup

By: Jared L South(GameBotBoy)

Jared L South(GameBotBoy) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:23:59 +0000

You have inspired me to make a stealth based game no i will not be stealing your rewireing.

By: darryl

darryl — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:30:33 +0000

This mock up looks amazing. The youtube video, while showing gameplay more than graphics, looked fun, but really doesn’t do this justice at all.

Keep it up!

By: Jason L

Jason L — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:11:39 +0000

Not really; ‘just following orders’ didn’t work at the Hague. I used to be like you, and there’s still a place for correction when, say, a person consistently makes a given error (i.e. let’s pile on Brian Crecente forever). In the real world, though, entirely excellent authors make typos and brain glitches from time to time, and it’s just not worth anyone’s time or effort to ‘fix’ them in a conversational medium.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:00:15 +0000

Hey man love the game and all but noticed in the blog post you wrote: “that’s the first FOR or five levels” you used the wrong four. You should have written the first FOUR or five levels. Sorry for pointing this out but a grammar Nazi has to do his job, does he not?

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:45:09 +0000

In terms of writing dialogue, I don’t really know yet – it isn’t needed for the build I’m working towards, so all I’ve written is a draft of the first conversation.

Figuring out the plot, though, has been surprisingly tough. Both the short stories I’ve written came easily, but with a game you’ve got a weird limitation: you don’t know what the main character will do, think or feel. Some games just assume they do know what you’ll do, think or feel, or tell you what you’ll do, think or feel. Luckily the freelance spy theme provides a good structure for avoiding that: the story starts with the clients, and all I have to do is provide you with a personal stake in their problems.

That said, it took a while to come up with something that would break down into a series of discrete missions, and I rewrote the outline about five times as I got increasingly unhappy with certain twists and characters. In general, I cut both: I’ve tried to keep it to as few characters as the story absolutely needs to function, and in about three different cases I’ve removed a big revelation because it felt fake or artificial.

It’s still stupidly, stupidly complex, and that’ll definitely cause problems, but I’m not going to simplify it until I see how it plays out in the context of the game.

By: Rei Onryou

Rei Onryou — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:46:51 +0000

As a journalist, how easy is it for you to jump into creative writing? This is probably a dumb question (plus I know you did that short story for Machine of Death), but English and writing have never been my forté, so a a programmer, I can make systems and logic, but not words.

Enlighten me oh mighty Tom of Francis! :)

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:20:47 +0000

I had to remove that and one other from the listing to get a better idea of what normal posts looked like in the new Gunpoint site design – put them back now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:19:39 +0000

Edit means apropos: Is How It’s Fucking Going supposed to be dead?
http://www.pentadact.com/2011-08-27-how-its-fucking-going/