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The guys leaving Giant Bomb upset me more than I expected, really didn't expect them to be back so soon doing exactly what I love from them. It's sad the whole crew couldn't stay together but I totally get them wanting out of the big corporate environment as much as I get Jeff wanting to figure out how to keep Giant Bomb going and making it work within that environment.

I'm subbed to both for now, I really hope Giant Bomb can come out of it's temporary stasis and make the site exciting again so I want to keep both subs.

I really hope we're going to get some news soon. I've enjoyed the Bombcast and Friday stream more than I expected since the guys left but it's obviously not a lot of content to hang onto. I know Jeff said they couldn't keep churning out material while they were planning the new direction, but it does leave the site feeling like it's on life support right now. So I'm just really eager for some announcement of what's next and I'm really hoping it's something that will build some excitement for Giant Bomb again.

What you're looking for doesn't exist. There's isn't a team of devs out there capable of putting together an MMO based on your ideas that would do it for free. Good news tough is you can make games yourself, just not your grand plan, maybe you'll get there one day but you've got to take baby steps first.

These might be of help:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/wiki/getting_started

http://www.youcanmakevideogames.com

For the record btw MMOs are pretty much the most difficult genre of games to build. What you have in mind is most likely of the scale of tens of millions of dollars in funding at its smallest scale. Start small.

Starting on my game tomorrow as I'm pretty busy today. Will post some initial screenshots once I'm up and running. Not quite ready to say what it is yet as I wanna get the initial setup done to check it's all gonna work.

This is a GREAT idea, I hope you make it as I really want to play that now.

Yeah fair enough, I think just a single sentence along the lines of "Make what you want, but we'd ask you to try not to be needlessly crude of offensive." is more than enough. I wouldn't have thought anyone from this community would go down that path anyway.

@roger_wilco said:

Is this really necessary? Ive been in countless game jams and I've never had a content guideline imposed upon me before and tbh very rarely seen anyone submit anything knowingly offensive. I find it a little unnecessarily hand-holdy.

I'll definitely take part in this. Love game jams, love giant bomb. Why not.

Was just donating to AGDQ and saw the Air Force Gator thing on the voting page. I knew that must have come form here so came to find this thread. I put my $50 towards it but we seem a big chunk shy of winning with not much time to go. Shame.

The Expo floor doesn't really have many games to play, not like PAX or E3. Only big gaming area is the IGF booth and typically at least half of the IGF nominations are already released games anyway. There's usually a lot of great parties and events going on in SF around GDC that week though. Game art exhibitions, chiptune gigs, gaming club nights (Wild Rumpus) so a lot of that stuff would probably be more worth your time. Basically since all the devs are in the same place a ton of unofficial events have sprung up all happening at the same time and the bonus is you don't need a hugely expensive GDC ticket to do them.