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That will be $69.95 for the collector's edition...
by Dr. Elliot McGucken on 07/10/09 11:31:00 am
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Posted 07/10/09 11:31:00 am
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@Michael Rivera & @Christopher Wragg
You guys are missing the far bigger picture here. This is an exciting moment in video game design! Think big!
I was hoping to talk about my work and the Gold 45 Revolver/Ideas Have
Consequences/Moral Premise technologies in video games @ my blog. In
the future, please move the discussion over here:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DrElliotMcGucken/1169/
I will try to keep this brief, and I am posting this at my own blog, so please, please respond to it there:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DrElliotMcGucken/1169/ Thanks!
You will note that finally somebody penned an article entitled Infusing
Games With a Moral Premise in 2009. Well, in 2005/2006/2007/2008, I
filed patent applications that mentioned Moral Premise over 140 times
in the context of exalting video games and franchises with a unifying
soul, exalted narrative, deeper character, and epic story.
"Moral Premise" is mentioned over 125 TIMES in my 2005/2006 patent
application "Morality system and method for video game: system and
method for creating story, deeper meaning "and emotions, enhanced
characters and AI, and dramatic art in video games.
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=ee-jAAAAEBAJ
"Moral Premise" is mentioned over 15 TIMES in my 2007/2008 "Gold 45
Revolver" patent application: "System and method for creating exalted
video games and virtual realities wherein ideas have consequences"
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=aAuzAAAAEBAJ
Just because you do not like reading "large walls of text" and have
neither read nor comprehended the patents (nor Aristotle's Poetics, nor
Homer's Iliad nor Odyssey, nor Dante's Inferno, nor Socrates' Apology,
nor Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces) does not mean that they do not
contain great, revolutionary ideas which will exalt a sea change and seismic
shift in the gaming industry, leading to billions of $$$$$ in new-found
revenue for the agile, nimble companies and early-adopters seeking to
serve the world with epic, exalted art; and not just yesteryear's
hooker-killing tech. In fact, because typical fanboy gamers despise
reading the Epic Classics, that became my great advantage, as it is in
the classical words and story that the classical, epic moral premise
and soul are exalted--not in the hot coffee. Thus, just like in A
Fistful of Dollars, I used the MBA/fanboy arrogance against them in
this showdown (while they were busy organizing fake protests), by
penning eloquent, exalted patents, filled with "walls of text" containg
the supreme eloquence Homer/Socrates/Jefferson and Mises, which I knew
the corporate MBA brass would a) never read/ignore and b) send its best
fanboys forth to try and destroy, before trying to shamelessly take
credit for the innovative game design techniques in articles such the
one above; and shortly, in novel, billion-dollar games. The corporate
MBA machine's major goal is to a) do none of the heroic innovation and
b) reap all the creative hero's innovations; countering the spirit of
our very Constitution. And that is why I made the Gold 45 Revolver, so
the lone rider would have a chance against the corporate-state Matrix
and their walls of lockstepping, hooker-killing, spore-growing,
money-losing fanboys--so that the lone rider could play a game in which
they defended the US Constitution and classic, epic ideals such as
love, romance, and honor;and so that the major gaming companies could
serve their stock holders with greater profits, rather than losing
billions in market cap, shedding jobs and market cap faster than Jeff
Gordon and Dale Earndhart Jr. competing for pole position. And now,
*everyone* wants a Gold 45. *Everyone* wants to shoot Zeus's lightning
in the third act. And there are vast opportunities for major
corporations to a) exalt classic, epic art, and b) reap billions in
profits. Of course the postmodern MBA prefers to kill classic
innovation, morality, and companies, cashing out during epic debauchery
of the culture and ucrrency; as we just witnessed the death of Merrill,
Lehman, the family, marriage, AIG, and Bear Sterns, and I know it is
company/MBA-fnaboy policy that my work is to be ignored, belittled, and
mocked; and then pilfered and adopted and profited off of. But, it
ain't gonna go down like that, as there's a new sheriff in town.
http://gold45revolver.com (more here)
& you can tell 'em all, that I'm a cowboy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlpzrN8OmhA
I've been around. I have read what you have not read, seen what you
close your eyes to, and heard what you are deaf to, and I know how it
works: "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident." --Arthur Schopenhauer
You--and the MBA/fanboy groupthink regime--do not have to like me. But
that doesn't mean that others can take credit for my work. For the
moral premise of all science and technological innovation works as
follows:
"In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth
as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man." — Galileo
Galilei
"The Novel "Gold 45 Revolver/Ideas Have Consequences/ Moral Premise"
Game Technologies Will Be Worth Billions of Dollars" to the agile,
entrepreneurial companies who first adopt them. These simple
innovations and technologies, which can easily be layered atop existing
game engines, will have far-ranging ramifications across the industry,
exalting games with profundity, soul, meaning, and epic storytelling.
--http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DrElliotMcGucken/20090709
/2322/The_Novel_quotGold_45_RevolverIdeas_Have_Consequences_
Moral_Premisequot_Game_Technologies_Will_Be_Worth_Billions_of_Dollars.php (more here)
If some videogame company does not see the vast value of these
eloquent, exalted ideas, without mashing buttons, then so be it. The
idea of putting on dog-and-pony shows for MBA fanboys who detest
reading as much as the classic moral premise and epic art just ain't
appealing to me. That is why I pen eloquent, exalted patents--I can be
as patient as I want, while the corporate MBA fanboys try to force
yesterday's soulless, hooker-killing technologies on a rising
generation who all want to hold the Gold 45 Revolver in the third act
which will rock Zeus's lightning in proportion to their honor being
intact; as their companies shed jobs and epic market-cap. The rising
generation is longing to play games which exalt the moral
premise--games which infuse morality into the center and circumference
of the game world, just as it is in our own world--in the *real* world
where classic, epic ideas have classic, epic consequences--and my
patents disclose systems and methods for doing so. The rising
generation is longing to rebel against the stultifying corporate state,
and seeing this, I set it down in immutable, eloquent patents, which
have become the most talked-about, novel video-game research over the
past two months.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366448 "This is the greatest videogame patent I've ever read."
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3143589
Did J.R.R. Tolkien have to build a working demo of Lord of The Rings on
the Torque Game Engine before they made the highly-successful game?
You guys just aren't thinking big enough. We were graced with divine
reason and imagination, so why not use it? Think like a
developer/marketer for a major billion-dollar company here; and come up
with some scenes exalted by the new “Gold 45 Revolver” technology!
Think big, like in the ending wherein the Fiatocracy's
Vampires/Communists/Feminized MBA Fanboys swarm our lone rider in the
mountain town, screaming/shrieking the words of
Lenin/Marx/Feminism/Fiatism in Banshee voices, trying to claim his
ideas and his soul.
Alone our lone rider stands in the thundering downpour, as the
lightning reveals the grotesque swarm--the horror of their collective
countenance is only trumped by the screeching words. Alone he stands,
with his 45; and if he has done the right thing throughout, legend has
it that the 45 will glow gold and shoot Zeus's lighting, slaying the
hundreds, if not thousands of rough Vampire/Communist/Zombie beasts who
slouch his way, screaming, distorting the words/slogans of the
declining fiatocracy in a most demonic manner.
See? There are billions of dollars $$$$ in the novel, emotional,
exalting gameplay alone. I know you can feel it deep in your bones. You
*want* to hold that Gold 45 Revolver. Or you want to obliterate it and
that lone rider, and destroy/take his ideas and his soul. But either way, you know you *have* to play the game.
That will be $69.95 for the collector's edition, complete with a metal
box. For $179.95, you will also get a life-like Gold 45 Revolver
replica, based on the single-action Colt .45--the Peacemaker
Smokewagon--the Judge Colt and His Jury of Six.
Who wouldn't want to play that, just to see if their Gold 45 Revolver
fires Zeus's lightning in the end, or just a little puff of smoke, like
a fanboy who took out his hate for the feminist movement (which
debauched his father's classical, epic soul and exiled him in the
divorce regime) by killing too many unarmed women and innocent hookers?
More here:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/author/DrElliotMcGucken/1169/
Please do migrate this conversation over to my blog. Thanks in advance!
Best,
Dr. E :)
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To answer your question: Yes, the LOTR games published by EA had solid pre-production stages. As a general rule every game that is sold (that is not direct sequel) have some form of prototype stage they pass through, these can vary from very simple to extremely complex depending on how many non-proven features you want to incorporate.
To compare with your digital eye thing, nobody would let you cut them up and put it in their head before you have something that is at least already marginally functional. You have a hypothesis, now test it.
Hello Joel,
I agree with you that mods/demos are essential, and I hope you join our first annual Gold 45 Revolver modding contest!
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DrElliotMcGucken/20090712/2375/The_First_Annual_G
old_45_RevolverIdeas_Have_ConsequencesMoral_Premise_Modding_Contest.php