Tim Rogers's discussions

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Tim Rogers
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I make videos for Kotaku. I make video games for myself and my friends. I like writing fiction. Someday I will publish a novel. Who knows!

@tim rogers: if he goes to platinum games i will shit my pants, burn my house, buy a gun and a trumpet, and climb to the top of the golden gate bridge yodeling like a not-sane person. Read more

@3rdshift: it's going to make something BETTER than your beloved megaman legends. free of the shackles of an audience-fearing, money-grubbing power-hungry conglomerate, this man is going to start out on his own and CEO a venture where he creates a new character, focused on the beautiful plan of making a modern game jus Read more

bashcraft, give him my number. i want to show him something. Read more

luckily, he managed to be a part of creating a near-universally loved, iconic entertainment product. that's the best compliment you can give an artist — that his audience grew up with his product to an extent where they are as familiar with it as he was, meaning someone else will easily be able to follow in his Read more

@Alsandair: i've actually got a limited-edition box, still shrink-wrapped, lying on the sofa. (it was free.) Read more

i have been on top of this for a while, and let me deliver The Definitive Answer: Read more

@Godsbigjoke: well, that's what i meant. they "renamed him" robotnik for the west, and then re-renamed him eggman . . . because he was never "eggman" in the west, it . . . was kind of a renaming. Read more

@ifandbut: as nintendo renamed princess toadstool "princess peach", sega renamed doctor robotnik "doctor eggman" around the time internet access became widespread and weird fans started writing up petitions for having all the japanese character names in videogames reinstated. back then, they were all about catering Read more

i don't know if that's totally fair. i'd say game dev story is as much about real game dev as brokeback mountain is about wyatt earp robbing a bank. Read more