Andre
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Why can’t we just turn the empty offices into apartments? (classic)
Good evening, everyone. How's everyone doing?
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Why can’t we just turn the empty offices into apartments? (classic)
We need to build a lot more housing wherever we can. We need to protect the housing we have. We need to update the housing we have. We've got to get the suburbs to do their fair share, right? This has got to be a comprehensive, we're all in this together approach, because otherwise... Young people are not going to live here anymore.
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Why can’t we just turn the empty offices into apartments? (classic)
Grandkids are not going to come back from schools and colleges and want to live in their neighborhood anymore. Young families won't be able to live here anymore. It's already happening. For all this talk about people leaving New York City, oh, the rich are leaving New York because of the tax. You know who's leaving New York? People who can't afford to live here.
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Why can’t we just turn the empty offices into apartments? (classic)
Those are the people that are leaving New York. And if we don't find a way to give them a place to live, we're going to lose them forever. So with that, that's a lot to say.
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What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?
DJ. Andre. Can you hear me okay? I can. It's actually amazing to speak to the voice behind the podcast I've been listening to for two, three years. This is nuts.
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What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?
I'm a blind musician. I do accessibility testing for companies. I write my own podcast music. Primarily, I do a bit of jazz and R&B and soul, but I also do finger drumming on a keyboard. This keyboard. Sorry, for someone who doesn't know what finger drumming is. What is finger drumming? Well, it's drumming, but done on a keyboard. Very silly, but very fun.
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What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?
You take a picture within the app and it comes back with a very detailed description of whatever you take a picture of. So it's extremely cool and extremely useful. So what types of things will you take pictures of and get descriptions of? Any and everything. Because for the first time in my life, I feel like I can enjoy pictures.
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What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?
And my family sends me pictures when they're out or I just snap a random picture if I turn to my left or my right and I get a description of that picture. And it comes back with a really detailed description of whatever it is. It has been, and I hate this term, but it's so true.
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What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?
It has been a cliche game changer because for the very first time in my life, I feel like I can enjoy pictures in the way that you can.
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What if ayahuasca made you stop podcasting?
I like AI because it's going to do things I don't do, but I'm still going to do things it doesn't do either. And I'm really intrigued to see where we go.
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what is the because I can't do anything with your game crashing on Nvidia card, whatever. But I can be like, Okay, in this mission, or in this quest, there's this like, really frustrating thing. And sometimes, you know, people from production, they're like, Oh, you can still finish the game. And I'm like, Yeah, but if the people turn off the game,
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because they're frustrated, that counts almost as a crash. It's even worse than a crash. That's really, really bad, especially in the first two hours because of refunds, right? But no, don't take me seriously on this one.
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the money i'm totally not about the money uh so so we try to identify these and be like hey we need to fix this so we definitely uh read try to read everything we kind of have this like oh i'm watching this streamer you're watching this streamer so we can watch like different people and in different languages um so you know so we kind of cover it and we as designers have to do this
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Because certain other like people from QA sometimes might not pick up on the sort of like big picture thing that we're trying to like, whether the balance of the economy is good, whether, you know, the feeling of this is right, maybe music and the scene is off. So, you know, it's a little bit weird. So, so we're trying to like fix all these things. And there's still plenty.
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I can't, like, I don't understand how they do that. Like, I'm like, I remember times before the internet. Yeah. Yeah. I remember there in the magazines, there was like these like guides and things for, you know, if you get stuck here, stuff that you look up in like 10 seconds, you know, this then age, you go to YouTube and you watched it, which kind of,
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add something, but also removes, like you have way less, like, um, patience, like you just like, and then you feel like, oh, you know, you feel like you need to take a shower because you basically
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And we try to like teach them a little bit, like bring it a little bit back, you know, bring back a little bit. Like you play the game. you know, the guy on Walkthrough, he doesn't play the game, you play the game. So I can't imagine how frustrating it was. Also, I kind of don't understand, people kind of, you know, some people are bugged about Thursday patches,
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And I'm like, that's six more months of fixes usually. Right. Especially if you get console certification, that takes time. So, I mean, yeah, it's like 40 gigs again, because, or 60 gigs because, but you know, um, it's just, you know, that that's what it is like that six months of work.
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is in that patch that's interesting to hear that's so cool like a peek behind the curtain of that there's still so much uh development and fixing even when you guys are done then there's still so much more to do especially on a like big open world game i can give you a broken game or i can give you a less broken game but you have to like download yeah 60 gigs which usual gamers are whining you do it anyway so i mean yeah
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First of all, you don't want to offend the gods, so you go very humbly. Never think that you get the victory in your pocket, because that's just karma. Karma is a... Yeah. No, that's okay. Karma is an evil old lady. Um... But we knew that the game is way less buggy than the first one. So that, you know, made us kind of happy.
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We didn't know whether people will buy into it because the concept is still very niche. I think the games you're referring to, they know, like they know they're going to catch a lot of flack for like, you know, doing the same thing all over again, or releasing it unpolished, unfixed, or uninspiring, or whatever.
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But they know that their brand is so strong that they can carry into the next thing they're going to do.
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Because I think that mainstream gaming has started to be absolutely repetitive. I think we can all agree that you can only play as many... Well, I don't want to mention... I don't want to... I mean, you can. I just didn't want to put you on the spot.
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You don't need a 150-hour-long Assassin's Creed every year. I really don't. Yes. And it's... I always say that this is a bit of a different thing, but...
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always say that it doesn't really matter how long it is it matters if your sessions like differ so i hope that if people play kingdom come they're like oh yesterday i you know brewed potions and then i went there and i met bandits and the next day i got drunk and they stole my shoes and then i met a pilgrim and whatever and they have like a different like stories for every gameplay session like they can name like if you could name that session put a name on it yeah be able to
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With a lot of open world games today, you can't do that. Like, every... all of your sessions, like you, you get better, you progress your stats, but all of these sessions would be average session. Number one, two, three, four, like, no, they're bland.
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They're very like similar, although they're crafted really like with the animations and voice or everything's crafted to perfection and they can, but it has no, I guess soul is the word.
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Yeah, yeah. So what we're aiming at is a game with a lot of soul, but also it's very different in so many areas. So we didn't know whether people will buy into it because this thing has been so strong that some people are like unable to escape the sort of clutches of
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mini maps and markers and fetch quests and they sort of do it for all the instant gratification basically all the mechanics that tell you oh you're so good because you click the button are like they work they work that's why they do it it's dopamine based science basically but
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there's a point where you kind of you know reveal the like tear down the veil and you're like oh i really haven't you know done anything very substantial so but there's a this is a hard like thing to to take people from that type of thinking to the type of thinking like in kingdom come You start. You all played, I guess, through the intro. And you start. You have nothing.
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You have nowhere to sleep. You have nothing to eat. You have some very, very raggedy bagger clothing. You don't really know what to do. We put the character there, the beggar, the girl.
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It wasn't there. We put it there when the telemetry you know, data went back and people were like, Oh, I kind of didn't know what to do. So we put, put her there and we were like, Oh, maybe it's too much. And then I watched the streams and people ask her all the questions and they go all the answers. And then they like turn around. They're like, okay, so what now?
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So, so actually the level of how people stopped, uh, you know, taking a J agency in their own gaming is like, I guess I don't think it's good. And we're trying to do the opposite way, but it's hard to take people from that thinking to like, Oh, you really have to think for yourself. So we didn't know, we didn't know where it's going to be receptive. Like, like this, like we weren't sure at all.
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That's good. That's great.
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I think that, you know, we already kind of bumped into it, uh, previously with the question about like what we feel before the release.
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Yeah.
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Uh, it takes time to build games. And so you spent, and there's really not a lot of like milestones where he could be like, oh, we did this or we did that sort of like collapses on the last moment into the game. And 90% of the time, the game looks like this can't, you know, you can't really sell this to people. This is garbage. It's glitchy buggy. It's like, so.
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So this is like a hard thing for people who love to complete tasks. Right. It's never complete. It's never done. Even now, it's still not. It's like, there's going to be DLCs and we have all these fixes. And then next year we're going to be like, oh yeah, that's it for kingdom come to. And there's going to be still 10,000 tickets in the system with things we wanted to do or ideas we didn't.
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really, you know, put in the game. So this is hard. And the other thing is, um, you really work on something you're really passionate about, which is a great thing, but it's also kind of curse. Cause you really care about it. You can't just be like, oh, well, you know, also they'll pay me anyway. And I can be like, whatever. I've been my previous job. I do did like QA on like an email server.
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No one really cared about that. Oh, sorry. You could totally release a hot mess and people would be like, oh, yeah, okay. You did a new version. So a lot of people are invested in it. The developers, the fans are invested. So it's very tense. And so these are, and also you start to like see games through the lens of a game designer, which is like the biggest curse.
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Like if you love playing games, making games teaches you like, I really, it's hard to enjoy a certain type of game.
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So you start playing all these like quirky indie games because they offer some new mechanics like the triple a big budget things they So excite you because I mean partly you see Like that you don't want to be reminded of that partly you see things or or you're like thinking how they did they do this and so It's really strange, you know So this is how it is.
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I think that what you described, like especially fetch quests and escort quests. there's these patterns that are kind of easy to grasp for gamers like they might not like it but for you as a game developer you're still of value in a gamer easily understanding what they should do Cause that's an easy task, you know, to tell people where they should go, how they should do it.
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Like people joke about the bird droppings on, you know, ledges or yellow, yellow doors paint, right? Yeah. Paint yellow paint things. And that's there because of a reason, like, because you can't really have a environmentally rich level. While, you know, actually not telling people what to interact with and whatnot. Like if you play, uh, Zelda, you can climb on every mountain, right? It's great.
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All these mountains are just one polygon faces with a texture. So you really like there's no detail. If there was a detail, it wouldn't work like that ever. And that's why you have the runes and got a war and all this. So all these things are there. So gamers can more easily understand what they should be doing in a world where you are limited. Like you don't know the limits.
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It's called affordances. It's like, can I jump over this gap? Okay. So if I make the gap really wide, I know I can't, but if I make it like, you know, these frustrating things, like it seems like I can almost jump there, but I can't. That's right. That's bad level design. Basically. That's bad. The affordances are not met.
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And so, and something similar goes to like quests, like the narratives, like fight, like bring me this or find, find me person X epsilon. That's in every story, which are free find Siri. It's super simple. There's no complicated narrative, but it's very understandable. And also you come and go during quests. Like you, you go to do something else. You end your session and then you reload.
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You don't have this with movies or TVs or something. People usually finish the episode, finish the movie. So you can't really afford to have like very complicated narratives. However, you can mask it a little better than a lot of these games are doing that. Like, they don't really care. Usually, it's through the world and the characters.
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Like, in Kingdom Come, if someone wants something for you to bring them, it's usually... It has a reason. It ties into their story. There's a reason for you being the person who can bring this. It's not like, I'm a hunter and I want five wolf belts. Get them yourself. You're a hunter, for Christ's sake.
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Like, you know?
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So... This is the bad part, I think. Fetch quests are fine, but their setting is usually so lazy. Right. Spirit uninspiring that it's sort of comes out as like, yeah, it's a fetch with that as that escort quests have a different, like the MPC moving on their own. I know that's the challenge with those levels, I guess, are just for like a change of pace in some games.
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You like the, you know, nurses. Like in Max Payne, like you get, you know, drugged and then there's this like line, you go on the lines and then it's like, I don't know if you have played the original. Oh yeah. Max. But there's like a level where you just walk in the dark and it's like, everyone hated it, but everyone remembers that.
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That's such an iconic scene that everyone like, Oh, original Max Payne, the one where you just, get, you know, high on something and then you walk through dark level trying to find an exit. So these are for change of pace, but I think all of these are not bad on their own. The concepts aren't bad, but the execution is...
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You made an excellent point with the choices and consequences. I don't know if you remember this, but there was a time in gaming when CNC, choices and consequences, it was like a marketing buzzword. Oh, yeah. And people with money loved it because it means replayability, right? Right. Like, sure, I'm going to play whole Mass Effect 3 to get a different colored ending. Smart, right?
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It doesn't work like that, but it does work in like a...
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a different way that if you share the experience like you can see there was like there was an actual choice there right like you can feel it so i think these games are way better now when you have like reddits and youtubes because people can like pick up on oh my god it was really i did i had a completely different experience so i now know there was a true choice or there was like a true branching that it wasn't this thing that was
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made there to make me replay the game, which with single player games, I will probably never ever like know how many people replay 100 hour single player like hardcore fans do, but most people just don't even have their multiple endings. They just put them on YouTube. And they're like, Oh, yeah, I could do this, I could do that. So seven, it's great.
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And that's something we try to do as well as like the sort of rabbit hole of adventures. Like you go on a simple fetch quest and then it, yep. The narrative is in like, oh, now I can't have the thing because, or I can't find the thing because, or I had the thing and I don't have it now because like you, you can like expand, but that all means more scripting because the fetch quest you mentioned,
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are pretty simple. Like, you go there, the game, you know, you have five rabbit pelts, ding, objective, go back, everything's super simple. You can't really get lost. But with our quests, it's kind of hard to... Sometimes even we, like, struggle a lot with, like, how to tell the player what to do. Detective quests, that's, like, super, like, complicated.
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Like, how to tell them what to do without actually revealing the answer. Um... And it gets messy. And so you have to be more, I guess, attuned to be like, I really don't need the journal or the objectives. I need to think for my own.
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And it doesn't really matter that the, like a lot of the stories have one ending, you know, like all the main quest is like just main ending. There's like a teeny tiny like decisions there and there, but the journey is different and that's like, exactly. So you all see the same cut scene, but you get there a different, different way.
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So we ended discovery, you know, we always say that if you have to, you know, if, if there's a marker, it doesn't really feel like you explore, like if I have a magical radar, it's, and also if something is always there, something is always around the corner, then I kind of get to this like rhythm of like, oh, I discovered that data.
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So it's a fine tuning of like how many things you can, cause you want to cram as many things as you can in the map. but you don't want to overdo it because if you overdo it, you're in the Disney world sort of go and everywhere is something it's overwhelming. The map looks ridiculous. It doesn't have the feeling of like, I'm there. You know, you're playing a game.
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So this is, and this is a fine edge. And I don't even know how we did that. Like, I don't know what was the formula. I want to know it because I want to repeat it. But I'm not sure what we did and how we did it. It kind of feels... There's interesting stuff, but there's not too many things, I guess.
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I mean, well, I mean, it's really different. If I have made a multiplayer game Some cool mechanics. I would probably do that. Because if I've done some board gaming stuff, I play those board games. But with a story game that's about exploration, that's really like, why would I do that? I know... I only torture myself because I see all the things that are wrong. Obviously, I play the game.
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You have to play the game. I will play the DLCs and all that. But if I go home and I sit down... I don't play my game.
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Because you're seeing you were too close wrong. Like you box where, and like this line could be different than this voice is not really matching the hat. And then I did it. And I get, again, if I made a game with cool mechanics, I would play it probably if it was special, it was a multiplayer game.
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But to share it with people, but a single barrel narrative game about exploration, kinda, I know all the stories. I know how the narrative ends. I play, I have so little gaming time that I didn't go to other games.
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It's okay. I'll do a big round. Yes, there you go.
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Okay, no problem. Thank you for having me. Audentes Fortuna Juvat.
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Well, okay. First of all, hi, thank you for having me here. Um, it's great pleasure. Um, so basically it's a bit different for me because, um, you know, in the design department, all the work kind of stops six months before the release, which I think is even worse because you have this, like the train has left the station.
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And now everything I spot and I want to correct, I can do it, but it's going to be in like patch, you know, 1.3, which, you know, we will definitely have patches. Um, but so, so it's, you know, kind of frustrating and also it's crazy because you work on this for six years and then all the attention is sort of like boiled down to two weeks.
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So your mom starts, you know, sending you links to local media. Then you go to the, like, pick up, like, a box for, you know, like, a delivery service. And on the display, it's, like, logo of Kingdom Come. And then it says, like, I went to the subway and there was like kingdom come on the, um, like big format ads. And I was like, holy family friendly podcast.
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Um, oh, holy moly or whatever you're saying. Uh, this is like massive and it's all in this two weeks and you're like, sort of feel almost like invaded. It's like, I've been working on this for six years, and now it's like here, and then it'll be gone, and then no one... I mean, people still play the game, but all the attention will...
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you know, quite quickly shifts to something else because there's always something around the corner.
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So it's been a big max mix of emotions, but, you know, despite it all, we think, uh, uh, we were relieved. Uh, the scores are great. The, uh, number of concurrent players were just 49, uh, We broke the top 50 most concurrent players on Steam ever with quarter of a million people playing it over the weekend. We sold one million copies in one day. So... That's awesome, man.
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I've once got a discount for a pair of Adidas shoes because I wore Kingdom Camo hoodie and someone was like, I left that game and I was like, hmm, I did that game. I got a discount of about like 15 bucks and you know hey oh that's awesome everything counts free 15 bucks but you know apart from that i got no free food oh yeah that's it's where my brain's always at it's morning time so i'm hungry
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Well, I mean, hold your breath would be better. Yeah. Because, well, I mean, like we still do things like we fix, you know, very critical box. Sure. Once you see like, oh my God, this is like, not good. Like something more substantial or something like some deep rooted issue. It is a very hard fight with the producers to actually fix that.
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And so you have to basically have to pick your fights like. We have this limited political capital design money, and we have to spend them on the things we really, really... Because otherwise we would be fixing everything all the time, and we would completely break the game, which unfortunately didn't happen this time.
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uh because they were like very very strict about that but you still doing things but you have to pick your battles and you have to be like there's a lot of extra steps to go through to fix things otherwise it would otherwise take one day to fix before that and now you have to spend a week sort of like you know getting the qa to test it whether it really really you know fix the bug
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Uh, or if it didn't add it, no new box, which is usually the case, like you fix one thing and three other things break. And so, and also if it involves localization, we have to like localize the 16 languages and all that. And obviously if it contains voiceover things, that's over. That's like, that's done. If someone tells you, I can't like go south and someone, you know, move the thing east.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
It's gone. Like you can't really fix that.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
I just stopped for a week and I watched screams nonstop. My wife would just bring me pizza or good wife. He said the game, by the way, she's Bianca in the first game. So, oh, wow. Okay. So that's cool. And she, you know, did some other stuff for us. She's very involved with the Warhorse.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
Warhorse is actually a very, you know, like a large family type of thing, like a lot of partners and people be like, we know each other. So it's cool, but cool wife, great point. I'll tell her later. So I was just nonstop watching streams. I tried to do this, you know, this time as well, but since then we kind of got two kids and that gets in the way a lot. There's a little bit. Yeah.
Video Gamers Podcast
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
Yeah, just, you know, LLA. We're both dads. We get it. You know, mobile phones kind of help, so it's okay. So I still watch streams, but this time, and this is amazing, last time I was worried, like, every time... Sorry, just there's not a because I'm on a phone.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
There's notifications Last time I was worried like every time someone loads a safe or opens a door or it goes to combat I was like praying that it doesn't break this time. I'm enjoying it far more I can like enjoy it like watching that not being like Anxious all the time and then obviously we read the reviews.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
Uh We try to respond I sometimes respond to social media to like the same posts like to get a fail or something like I don't indulge in like all that stuff, um but um So so I try to interact as as much as I can I read reddit, uh I'm, you know, today I was kind of bummed out because I found out that a lot of people have a trouble with my mission in a game because maybe we made it too hard.
Video Gamers Podcast
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
Uh, it's the castle mission when you're like locked in.
Video Gamers Podcast
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - Hanging with the Senior Game Designer!! - Gaming Podcast
Spoilers. Uh, I haven't mentioned which castle it is. So there's multiple games. So it's fine. So, uh, you know, I'm kind of like, oh yeah, but now I have this like thing I can be like, okay, I need to fix this in the next patch somehow. So we try to like tackle all the, obviously we have the external QA and all this stuff, but as designers, we try to like,