Elysian Shadows

Him: hi!

Me: hey, who is this?

Him: i am from the tigsource forums i just lurk the most

Me: Oh hey, Tigro! What's your username?

Him: tigro?

Me: That's what I call people from TIG =P

Him: oh

Me: uhh so what's up?

Him: i saw u were mkaing a little dracula game and saw that u can make games.

Me: I actually scrapped that project

Me: There was already a cartoon called Little Dracula, and then Lightmare came out

Me: and it was basically the same thing, so I just said forget it.

Him: oh

Me: Do you make games, or just a fan of indie games.

Him: i have not made one, but i am making one wit some friends from scchool

Me: Cool, what's it about?

Him: its liek L4D. its going to be aweosme

Him: do u want to help us?

Me: uhh? Like L4D? Is it 3D

Him: yes, we are making it 3D

Him: 2D games are not as good

Me: Wait, how old are you?

Him: 11

Me: Oh.

Me: Do you even know how to code? C++? Anything?

Him: i wrote the story and do drawings for the game

Me: Do your friends know how?

Him: no we are looking up tuttoreals and will get a programmer to help us

Me: ugh, So you are going to get a programmer to do all the work

Me: and then slap your name on it?

Him: no i wrote the script and do the drawings

Me: Do you know how to make 3D models?

Him: no, i will just read the tuttoreals

Me: *tutorials

Him: why won't you help us?

Me: First of all, I'm not doing all the work.

Me: Second, I have only have a general idea of how coding for 3D games works, but I have never done it

Me: Good luck trying to find a programmer that will help you... You should probably learn how to do it with your friends

Me: Check out a book from the library, like Sam's teach yourself C++ in 21 days, or read TUTORIALS and make pong or something. You have to work your way up to doing something like L4D.

Me: The first thing I ever done was a one level Megaman clone. And I learned all about collisions and drawing sprites into the program, etc.

Him: thats stupid

Him: we can make this game we got alot of art and stuff

Me: Dude, I'm just trying to help you. You should do something like use GameMaker it uses scripts so you can get familiar with how languages work and stuff.

Me: That way you can learn. Do you think the people at Valve started with L4D? No. They started with really simple stuff and went to college and made simple stuff and then built it up until they had an understanding on how to do that sort of thing. Even a current project I'm working on right now is basically a Pac-man clone.

Him: no that takes too long. we can just read totoreals. you don't know anything you can't even program 3D stuff

Me: Kid, you're raging me to my full extent, Just take my advice. Or go ask somebody else for advice. Everyone will say the same thing to you.

Him: your stupid i just googled a lot of stuff on how to do it lol cant you do this

Me: Listen you christpunching cuntlipped fag. I was just giving you advice... wait, why am I arguing with a kid? Take your shitty logic and go program your shit game, and good luck. And good luck finding a programmer to help you.

Him: u r mean. i am going to tell the mods to BAN you

Me: Eat shit and die you fuck, have them ban me.

GyroVorbis wrote:Is this the guy trying to recruit a team in our Game Development forum by any chance?

programmerinprogress wrote:That is ridiculous... wait a second? you said he was 11?, I thought you usually had to be at least 13 to register for most forums?, maybe a ban may be just what THEY need

The sad thing about that story is that I don't think he was even arrogant, he was just oblivious to the amount of work it actually takes to learn to program, and make something of any merit...

GyroVorbis wrote:When I was 11, I was making "dreams" in Furcadia and having cyber sex with furry online women.

programmerinprogress wrote: @the other posters: what is this furcadia you speak of? i've never heard of it.

Him: yes, we are making it 3D

Him: 2D games are not as good

Me: Wait, how old are you?

Him: 11

Me: Oh.

cypher1554R wrote:

Him: yes, we are making it 3D

Him: 2D games are not as good

Me: Wait, how old are you?

Him: 11

Me: Oh.

This is my favorite part!

programmerinprogress wrote: well when you think about it, he's 11, meaning he was born in 1997, I believe that the playstation and N64 were already out then, and I doubt he was playing games until the next generation of consoles (i.e. GC, PS2, XBOX) so when you think about it, he doesn't really know any better, damn kids

Andy K. wrote:I had Klik & Play

even then I was like I'M GOING TO MAKE THE MOST EPIC GAME EVER

You wouldn't ban me, would you, Falco? *bats eyelashes*