Gaming Failures

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Gaming Failures

• Craig Richards
• February 14 2008

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Content

• Video Game Crash 1983
• Cost Cutting
• Company Failures
• Hacking
• Poor Marketing
• Conclusion

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Video Game Crash - 1983

• Big License
• Bad coding
• 4 mo. - 1 mil.
• Atari vs C64
• Biggest Selling Cart

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Video Game Crash - 1983

• 21 mil license
• 5 weeks - 200k
• (should be 6 mo)
• 1 mil out of 5 mil sell
• Programmer satisfied

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Cost Cutting

• Outsourced programmers
• Bargain games
• Games dont work
• Company out of business
• Company Stellar Stone LLC

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Cost Cutting

• Based off of a movie
• Buggy game
• Solid engine
• Pay multiplayer expansion
• Poor reviews
• LithTech engine, No One Lives Forever 2

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Company Failures

• Search for perfection
• Programmer woes

• Late release (4 yr)
• Lousy game

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Company Failures

• 10 year dev time!
• Many engine changes

• Staffing issues
• Out when done

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Hacking

• Successful Launch
• Patch issues

• Hacking issues
• Open sourced

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Hacking

• Slow Launch
• Piracy

• Hacking issues
• Maintained (community)

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Poor Marketing

• Rated well, sold poorly
• Marketed to young kids, budget
• Solid strategy game, ignored
• Humongous Ent.

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Poor Marketing

• Slow overall sales
• Company bankrupt

• Designed well
• Not marketed

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Thanks for Listening

• ET - Pacman
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terres
  trial_28Atari_260029
• http//www.avclub.com/content/node/24900/1/2
• http//www.thedoteaters.com/p3_stage6.php
• Big Rigs
• http//www.mobygames.com/company/stellar-stone-llc
  
• http//www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/bigrigsotrr/rev
  iew.html
• Gods and Generals
• http//www.gamespot.com/pc/action/godsgenerals/rev
  iew.html
• Daikatana
• http//www.gamespot.com/features/btg-daikatana/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana
• Duke Nukem Forever
• http//www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/43655
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_nukem_forever

• Allegiance
• http//www.freeallegiance.org/FAW/index.php/Histor
  y
• http//www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/pc/besto
  f_2000/p2_16.html
• Subspace
• http//www.subspacedownloads.com/index.php?actwha
  t_is
• Moonbase Commander
• http//www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/moonbasecomman
  der/review.html
• Startopia
• http//www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3027/postmor
  tem_startopia.php?page3
• http//www.rakrent.com/rtsc/rtsc_startopia.htm
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startopia