Hmm, well let me see...how to go about this. Ok let''s do it this way...you have ideas, you can write a book, right?
Well you could with enough perseverence but your chances of it being well written are at say 5%. It takes a writer to write a book, someone who has studied other authors, and writing.
It''s just like me (Game Designer/Producer) going up and saying: "Hey why do I need to screw around with programmers? I''ll just write my own code". Ok, give me the benefit of being a fast learner and very smart, I may actually be able to teach myself C++, etc. Yeah, I''d write code, but do I know the tricks to optimizing it? Do I even know what I''m doing? And most importantly, will I be so bogged down by trying to write code, when I should be concentrating on design issues?
So the thing is, that although it''s not a bad thing to try and feel into other depts you should stick to what you''re good at.

Boil all my gibberish down to this.

You want to make a game. You want to make a GOOD game. You CAN''T do it by yourself.

Unless of course you are a master of all of the following: Design, Code, Art, Music, Scripting, QA, Business, etc. etc.

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

Making god looking graphics is not that easy.
You sound like a real idiot yourself.

I´ve been looking for a good gfx-guy for a long time.
Finally I found one. I´m so glad I did.

Better to have a medium programmer and a good graphic designer, than the other way around.


ADDED LATER:
Ups! I overlooked your last statement:
"(ps: I actually respect gfx designers. The above is just to lure you into conversation!) "

I´ll keep my reply intact anyway...See ya!









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Edited by - granat on May 30, 2000 1:24:45 AM

Well believe it or not you will need a graphic designer but the truth about them is low level of thinking is what the are i guess it comes with a good designer. You can not do it by yourself but you sure can do most of the actual game yourself. They do not want to know how to capture events from the user. They just want to know that the game responses to them when they play. They are willing to sacirfice nothing for their design (vision) as they would say. All you''ll need them for is the little stuff like what textures go with green and blue.

Well, I do my own graphics normally (and I''m doing graphics for someone else''s game too), but I think that you really shouldn''t do that unless the game is just a small-time thing, because if you''re making a commercial-level game, you''re gonna need commercial-level graphics designers

If you code it, they will come...

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quote:No need for a low IQ gfx designer, better do it myself!

Poor missguided fool , there is more to graphics designing than what meets the eye . I should know I have taken Graphics Designing classes , I used to be like yah whatever , I have the talent dont need the classes blah blah ..... .

quote:No need to be modest!

BTW I do everything from sound fx , art , game design , music and programming . Currently working for my bsc Computer Science (software engineering ) , Associate -> Academy of Interactive and Visual arts , Associate -> Computer Animation , Did I go all out sorry

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