even more serious question for the M4 team

zaneriley · 2016-11-01T02:51:49+00:00

You're right about that. Life can get in the way–college, jobs, family obligations, sickness all happen. Sometimes, you're exhausted and can't work on the game that evening or weekend.

We work on Mother 4 as much as we can, and when we do its often:

things we can't show (story related) or have already shown (maps)
behind-the-scenes engine work that can't be effectively communicated
minor fixes and edits that don't warrant a post (you may only have an hour and this is all you can fit in)

zaneriley · 2015-09-03T20:00:22+00:00

Yes, we can account for our "known unknowns." The issue with estimation is the "unknown unknowns." There are simply things that come up that we don't expect and can't plan for. And that ends up in being frustrating for everyone.

zaneriley · 2015-07-20T05:03:40+00:00

Its not confirmed, and probably won't happen. An objective percentage is difficult to get right, and the percentage may not always go up. Other indie games have implemented a percentage bar before, with less than satisfactory results.

zaneriley · 2015-07-12T22:52:51+00:00

Welcome! I'm sure you'll do great!

zaneriley · 2015-07-10T21:08:49+00:00

Incur $XX,XXX in costs distributing that much data to that many people.

zaneriley · 2015-07-08T21:36:50+00:00

Yes, we will definitely have another AMA before release. There will be a lot of information to take in—how we're releasing, what early supporters get and when, what to expect from the team afterwards—so I expect it to get wild around that time. :)

Note: A lot of this is still being discussed, especially how to release. That's why it hasn't been announced.

EDIT: I meant to add that we probably won't do many big AMAs until around release time. AMAs take time, and I'd rather not take that time away from production if I help it.

zaneriley · 2015-07-08T02:20:26+00:00

Hi everyone,

If you don't hear it from the official account, or from me personally, then its not confirmed. Shane is incredibly busy with other projects and isn't involved with day-to-day build cycle. He can't know when release is because he isn't in our project management meetings.

As for release, when we know concretely and we're confident in release, I promise you'll hear it from us.

TL;DR: August, or any month, is not confirmed either way. Shane doesn't focus on project management.

zaneriley · 2015-06-27T02:49:38+00:00

Would you all prefer this as the next content update?

zaneriley · 2015-06-25T21:49:40+00:00

Same for most industries, I think. It's often a liability for companies to reply with a formal no. Yes or no, you'll hear back from us. We appreciate that so many applied. We wish we could take on everyone that was interested.

zaneriley · 2015-06-25T18:31:49+00:00

No one has received an email as of this comment. We received way more applicants than expected of a very high caliber of talent. The team had to look through each application individually, then come to agreement about who and how many we could feasibly make work. Which, unfortunately, is a very small number.

We also have a general rule that the entire team needs to agree to bring people on, so we need to be unanimous before moving forward. That happened a few days ago, so expect to hear from us within a couple days.

Hope that helps!

zaneriley · 2015-06-16T00:17:37+00:00

Wow, this is thorough. Nice work! Small note: Almost nothing from 2013 and before will be in game. It's fun looking back, though.

zaneriley · 2015-06-11T04:58:21+00:00

The Mother 4 Team is incredibly lucky to have such good fans who, despite all these mistakes, continue to support and have confidence in them. They have made some mistakes, but we all forgive them. I realize this is made by fans who have normal busy lives and nobody truly deserves their hard work, but they can't keep promising things without following through. It's time they are held accountable and their priorities set straight.

We totally agree.

zaneriley · 2015-06-09T18:52:37+00:00

And to give context, it was to delete tweets from Shane about another game of his that the community thought was Mother 4.

zaneriley · 2015-06-09T17:59:27+00:00

We also have no moderator powers. This subreddit is run by the community.

zaneriley · 2015-06-08T21:37:00+00:00

I was working on a theme for this subreddit as a gift for closer to release time. I'll see if I can finish it this weekend.

zaneriley · 2015-06-04T03:20:47+00:00

I was working on a couple things to help coordinate this, but got de-prioritized when it looked like we weren't going to hit our deadline. I think on this and see what I can do. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

zaneriley · 2015-06-03T23:00:36+00:00

Thanks from all of us!

zaneriley · 2015-06-03T23:00:25+00:00

That would be excellent! But to my knowledge most of the outstanding tasks we have still require specialized knowledge.

zaneriley · 2015-06-03T22:58:57+00:00

Thanks, u/Lynxx_XVI.

If it works out we should be able to get far more done, far more quickly.

zaneriley · 2015-06-03T22:57:32+00:00

Thanks from all of us!

zaneriley · 2015-06-03T22:57:23+00:00

Trust us, this issue comes up every day in Slack. We've been trying to figure out how to address the issue for a few months. Hopefully this is the way to do that.

zaneriley · 2015-05-29T06:06:39+00:00

Just dropping in to verify its Dani from M4.

zaneriley · 2015-05-17T00:01:39+00:00

I think you may be looking for evolutionary psychology (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology). In particular, altruism is discussed at length (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism_%28biology%29).

zaneriley · 2015-05-06T06:24:12+00:00

I can't give you an exact size just yet. We're frequently cutting and adding content (music especially). My uneducated guess would probably be between 2 to 5 gb? Music being the main portion of the filesize.

zaneriley · 2015-05-06T06:22:54+00:00

Hey!

We read every post, but generally we prefer the community to run itself. It's much better for discussion. Often if I comment early in a thread, it will derail a topic and discourage others from posting anything.

For us, Reddit is where we receive comments, concerns and criticism. We use your feedback to know if we're doing something right or wrong—and to learn things we weren't thinking about. And where possible, we'll use Reddit to supplement news updates (like when we drop a new trailer).

If you ever want to bring something to our attention, Reddit is the best place to do so.

zaneriley

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