User blog comment:AtomicScientist/What to do, What to do... (LEGO Minifigures Release.)/@comment-1392407-20130829212831

It's not here yet. That's only a preview. I don't feel like this should be an issue.

First, the game could easily outlive Chima if handled well. It's not tied to a theme that can't be easily expanded (new Minifigures every 2 months, new sets every 6). That said, I'm not a fan of how they handled various things in the video. Obviously they didn't show the customization, but it seems like customization might be taking a backseat to individual minifigure uses. I hope my impression is wrong, because if it isn't I will be very disappointed.

Second, my goal was never to beat everyone else. I was just hoping to get some experience working with/leading developers, regardless of how inexperience they may be, and, hopefully, to make a game.

We have two active modelers, if I'm correct. Neither of them have been using Blender for more than what, five months? They're definitely not bad, but since Allen is gone at the moment, Brick is doing whatever it is he does, Zax quit for personal reason, and Mvp disappears as he does all too often, we really can't expect to make a vibrant, detailed world like those in the MMO. To add to that, the closest thing we have to a terrain texturer is Mvp, who is gone. I'm not a great texturer...I can only do fairly basic designs. I can barely do something that looks like shadows. Trust me, there's no way we can make this look "great" with the people we have at the moment.

Designing good gameplay (at least compared to my impression of the game's gameplay) shouldn't be, in my opinion, super hard. That said, Bin's level of activity keeps fluctuating and Allen is very busy with school. Without coders, there's no way we can make it "play great".

Progress requires people. We have no audio guy as far as I know. Deltacon has been gone for a very long time. We also need texturers, not just modelers and coders. You're not going to make a game look good just with Blender and Unity.

It's a pretty bleak picture.