Comment by snapcaster 3 days ago
Discourage reading Jesse Schell if you want to make _good_ games instead of corporate slop. He's never made a game you like or anyone you know likes. Agreed everything he says sounds great but then why hasn't he made any good games?
The fact that i'm a huge gamer, and have a huge friend group of them but nobody plays his games. It's just crazy to me this guy gets a shout out by hordes of people that don't play them. I doubt anyone upthread recommending his book plays any of them regularly
So you've never played his games, but for some reason you are assuming they're good? why? why is everyone so desperate to lend this man authority without any personal experience on something you can evaluate yourself so easily
> The fact that i'm a huge gamer, and have a huge friend group of them but nobody plays his games
Yeah, same here. But my conclusion from that would be "I'm not the target market", not "Those games are clearly shit because neither I or my friends play them".
Again, looking at the games, they've won awards + are highly rated by people playing them. You just think those people are wrong for liking the games, or something?
Look there are countless game designers making shovelware crap. I don't fault them at all, what annoys me is people pointing to him as an authority when those same people don't even play the game. Even here you're just assuming someone somewhere does, why not pay attention to game designers that make games you enjoy yourself?
You're the first person I've ever interacted with that has personally enjoyed one of his games! Your comment is forcing me to slightly update my beliefs thanks. how many hours have you played them?
> Agreed everything he says sounds great but then why hasn't he made any good games?
Quick browse of the portfolio on that website (https://schellgames.com/portfolio) seems to show multiple games that has won awards. All their original games seems to have "Mostly Positive" or above on Steam as well.
What metric are you judging this developer by? I can't say I've played/seen any of those games myself, but clearly they seem to be putting out some games that people play and enjoy.