One More Block

Posted: **November 15th, 2013, 8:55 pm**

The UGC genre really has taken quite a blow in recent years. GameGlobe went public about a year ago, and look at it now. It's shutting down barely a year later.

There are 5 UGC games I can name off the top of my head right now:

Atmosphir
GameGlobe
Playcrafter
Jumala (or whatever it was called)
Barbie and the Magic of Pegasis

Out of all of these, the only one that is still alive is an atrocity that should've disappeared years ago. It's like there's a curse preventing UGC games from lasting or something...

Edit:

Miniike wrote:Slight change up topic, but what do you guys think an ideal game creator would be like?

Well, I think Atmosphir could've learned a lot from GameGlobe and vice versa. My ideal game creator would be something that had everything those two games did right and fixed everything they did wrong. I'd pay good money for that.

Posted: **November 15th, 2013, 8:56 pm**

Life sucks.

Posted: **November 15th, 2013, 8:57 pm**

Miniike wrote:Life sucks.

Just wait 'till you get to be in my grade (although that really refers to school more than life as a whole)...

Posted: **November 15th, 2013, 8:59 pm**

ElectroYoshi wrote:Just wait 'till you get to be in my grade (although that really refers to school more than life as a whole)...

Posted: **November 15th, 2013, 9:02 pm**

Miniike wrote:OF COURSE!

Ummmmm, yeah.

Back on topic, is GameGlobe's shutdown solely due to the money issues it's been having?

Posted: **November 15th, 2013, 9:02 pm**

Pretty much, the community was pretty active.

Posted: **November 15th, 2013, 9:08 pm**

Huh... with how active the community was, you'd think they could've gotten it solved...

Posted: **November 15th, 2013, 10:00 pm**

ElectroYoshi wrote:Huh... with how active the community was, you'd think they could've gotten it solved...

Maybe if they had TOLD US...

ElectroYoshi wrote:

Atmosphir

GameGlobe

Playcrafter

Jumala (or whatever it was called)

Barbie and the Magic of Pegasis

How about Project Spark? Some parts look like a direct ripoff of GameGlobe to me, but I really like their "brain" logic idea.

Posted: **November 15th, 2013, 10:30 pm**

Rabbidfan236 wrote:Maybe if they had TOLD US...

I found this really interesting article awhile back about lack of communication being a big problem in video games now. I actually addressed that on the GG forums at one point, but NOPE, NO ONE LISTENS TO THE NEW GUY.

Rabbidfan236 wrote:How about Project Spark? Some parts look like a direct ripoff of GameGlobe to me, but I really like their "brain" logic idea.

I'm probably not gonna get involved with that. You need an Xbox or Windows 8 PC to run that. I'm gonna be getting a PS4 this generation and am planning on downgrading my laptop from 8 to 7 soon.

Posted: **November 16th, 2013, 5:44 am**

ElectroYoshi wrote:I'm probably not gonna get involved with that. You need an Xbox or Windows 8 PC to run that. I'm gonna be getting a PS4 this generation and am planning on downgrading upgrading my laptop from 8 to 7 soon.

Fixed for you...

Posted: **November 16th, 2013, 9:51 am**

Thanks mon.

Posted: **November 16th, 2013, 7:14 pm**

Well with GG shutting down, I decided to come back here. What now?

Posted: **November 16th, 2013, 8:05 pm**

negabandit86 wrote:Well with GG shutting down, I decided to come back here. What now?

We carry on. Hopefully Nin and Kroltan can get the atmosphir server working properly ASAP

Posted: **November 16th, 2013, 8:45 pm**

We are working on it! We have a really big update coming...

Posted: **November 16th, 2013, 11:00 pm**

StreetLights wrote:We carry on. Hopefully Nin and Kroltan can get the atmosphir server working properly ASAP

Posted: **November 16th, 2013, 11:23 pm**

kroltan wrote:We are working on it! We have a really big update coming...

Exciting stuff! Exciting stuff!

Posted: **November 17th, 2013, 9:13 pm**

Bad news, and good news, in the form of new server development. I was an avid user of Gameglobe. It sucks now. But life is tough, and it's beyond our power. I've asked for them to give us the source code. They haven't answered yet, but the way it seems, I doubt it would be a yes.

Though, who I am to say that pure luck hasn't paid off before?

Posted: **November 17th, 2013, 9:19 pm**

matthewbny wrote:Bad news, and good news, in the form of new server development. I was an avid user of Gameglobe. It sucks now. But life is tough, and it's beyond our power. I've asked for them to give us the source code. They haven't answered yet, but the way it seems, I doubt it would be a yes.

Though, who I am to say that pure luck hasn't paid off before?

I hope they give you the source code, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.

Posted: **November 17th, 2013, 11:28 pm**

If any of you are still keen on level creation, I still need people to help build maps for my game. Its mostly drag and drop stuff, and only requires Visual Studio C# Express (which is free).

Posted: **November 18th, 2013, 1:27 pm**

Because it wouldn't be fair not to share:

The next UGC game

One More Block

So Gameglobe Is Dead.