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[EnigmaticHat]

Heh, I think this may be my first removed post.

[GiglameshDespair]

Toady One had to intervene. I feel kind of embarrassed for the forums, now. Sorry, Daniel & co.

_{don't leave stay forever}

[Citizen Daniel]

I appreciate you guys sticking with us. 

A *lot* of unexpected stuff comes up whenever you take on a game project, much less one as complicated as a simulation game.  A couple of years ago we had a poorly optimized terrain mesh with some 3d models on it.  The difference between that and a game is a couple of years and probably coming up on 300 pounds of coffee.  Last estimate for lines of code puts us at about 300k, and that was a while ago... which puts us at about 1000 lines of code per pound of coffee... hmmmm...

This is a metric i must track.

[Citizen Daniel]

A lot of that coffee turns into art too.  Hmm.  This is complicated.

[motorbitch]

does that mean: if we send you coffee, we get horses?

[Citizen Daniel]

No.  No horses.  Not from us, anyway.  Those odd-toed ungulates have had it too good for too long.

[Graknorke]

While I admire your desire to pursue this line of investigation, I think you might be jumping to a hasty conclusion.
Have you checked whether it is the coffee itself at play here, or just something tangential? It's important to establish your variables.

[Citizen Daniel]

Your suggestion of establishing a control could ruin us all!

Oh, David wrote a blog post about how we make sausage:

http://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/04/30/the-mad-mad-mad-vortex-of-game-development/

Worth bearing in mind, for context, that this doesn't even include the coding perspective.

[GiglameshDespair]

Dat tag.

you're doing it right when testers aren't sure if it's a bug or an intended otherworldly abomination

A bug or a feature? We can't tell! A perfect way to deflect criticisms, indeed!

[Willfor]

Investors: Happily, we don’t really have these (unless you count the Gaslamp founding partners, and, I suppose, Canada in a sense). If we had investors meddling in our creative control, to say nothing of finances and release schedule, we could be forced to release a game we weren’t happy with too early. That’d make us very upset, and that’s why we maintain control of our own affairs. Plus, we can say stupid stuff on the blog and get away with it. Still, we need to make money by shipping a product.

Oh man. I already support Gaslamp Games just by paying taxes! Something to feel good about.

<sub>^{I have contributed $0.00001CND to Clockwork Empires!!}

(Must convince the Government to take more money from me to up that to $0.00002CND)</sub>

[Graknorke]

Dat tag.

you're doing it right when testers aren't sure if it's a bug or an intended otherworldly abomination

A bug or a feature? We can't tell! A perfect way to deflect criticisms, indeed!

There are no bugs, only unintended features.

[Citizen Daniel]

A new week!  A new blog post!  One of the variety where you will be RIVETED with the EXCITING minor tweaks and feature implementations that bring us one step closer to THAT POINT.

http://www.gaslampgames.com/2014/05/07/polish/

Edit: Please read this forum post in a 1930s announcer voice.  We were having a competition in the office a couple weeks ago to see who had the best one.  Mine was not the worst!

[Karkov]

Edit: Please read this forum post in a 1930s announcer voice.  We were having a competition in the office a couple weeks ago to see who had the best one.  Mine was not the worst!

Out of curiosity, whose was?

[Retropunch]

Gaslamp Games make the only (other than DF) progress reports that I bother reading fully.
I think you could literally make chemistry books fun and hilarious.

 "call me old but I still think that using the middle mouse wheel lends itself to a pretty high level of excitement" - YES I FEEL THIS TOO. EVERY TIME I GET A MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON MOUSE.

[Citizen Daniel]

Definitely our 3D environment artist Sean