Post your questions about the game here!

[cricket_online]

Well not "exactly" as there was no deception or "planting" of info. I was surprised what was found in the files by the guys here, I did not reverse engineer it myself prior to launch.

But I never said it was "deception". My point was that you were aware of all the contents, and made the call to leave the information/data in there. I am sure you followed basic Risk Management, i.e. what information/data was there in the beta, then you evaluated what might be the impact of the information (i.e. will you or the product be impacted adversely coz of the info) and finally determined that there wouldn't be any downside to leaving the data in there.

I was simply trying to say the data/information wasn't an oversight or left by "accident". You knew what information was in there and you made the call to leave it in as this is what I would have expected. I refuse to believe that a successful video game developer would leave the data/information by "accident". This is Risk Management 101 and it would be an insult to you and your team to think the information/data left behind was an oversight.

 

[BigAntStudios]

Hmmmm I was not aware of all of the contents. I have a team of coders on the project, I do not check every line of code.... anyway nuff said, flogging a dead horse.

 

[MattW]

flogging a dead horse.

You're new here aren't you.

 

[cricket_online]

Hmmmm I was not aware of all of the contents. I have a team of coders on the project, I do not check every line of code.... anyway nuff said, flogging a dead horse.

Again, you don't need to be aware of "every line of code". At a high level you knew that you were leaving stadiums, attributes etc. behind. Hope you get my point and yup let's move on to interesting stuff given AC 13 is about to release in about 4 weeks' time

 

[BigAntStudios]

Sure it is

 

[cricket_online]

Sure it is

Looks like AC 13 folks threw down the gauntlet

Let me quote what Mike Fegan of Trickstar games had to say about competition...

Definitely, I think competition is good just like the real sport. The guys down the road know cricket and hopefully they come up with a good game as well. But you know where we think we?re different is having those exclusive licences, the exclusive stadiums, we have over 200 kit items ? a bunch of kit manufacturers ? you know we have content in the game that they can?t do, but hopefully they crack the cricket game as well.

Here's hoping Big Ant can "crack the cricket game as well"

Link...
http://www.planetcricket.org/forums...-fegan-trickstar-games-84367.html#post2511833

 

[BigAntStudios]

Looks like AC 13 folks threw down the gauntlet

Let me quote what Mike Fegan of Trickstar games had to say about competition...



Here's hoping Big Ant can "crack the cricket game as well"

Link...
http://www.planetcricket.org/forums...-fegan-trickstar-games-84367.html#post2511833

We are not going to merely rely on licenses, gameplay is king.

My head is completely scrambled after reading that interview... Daily builds, game not finished, but is to be released in June....

I think they have got a bigger secret than anyone of us ever imagined - they have a TARDIS and are to appear in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special!.... it is May isn't it?

 

[cricket_online]

We are not going to merely rely on licenses, gameplay is king.

My head is completely scrambled after reading that interview... Daily builds, game not finished, but is to be released in June....

I think they have got a bigger secret than anyone of us ever imagined - they have a TARDIS and are to appear in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special!.... it is May isn't it?

Have to say that got me confused as well. There are a lot of contradictions regarding the Release date and what they are working on at the moment. I'm hoping that contradiction was a red herring by Mike and the game does release by 21st.

Regarding "Gameplay is king", you are absolutely spot on.

 

[isrararrafi]

Ross, you probably know about this already...interesting development happened recently around march...is this true? Sony apparently made approval process really short with options to waive the patch fee if they feel the developer needs it.

http://slumz.boxden.com/f13/sony-re...submission-greenlighting-voting-more-1902949/

Wondering if that affects anything unless you guys have already gone through those processes.

 

[SibiNaayagam]

We are not going to merely rely on licenses, gameplay is king.

My head is completely scrambled after reading that interview... Daily builds, game not finished, but is to be released in June....

I think they have got a bigger secret than anyone of us ever imagined - they have a TARDIS and are to appear in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special!.... it is May isn't it?

The million dollar question. Ross, are you going to take the release date as 21st and go ahead with your plans or rather wait even more?

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Ross, you probably know about this already...interesting development happened recently around march...is this true? Sony apparently made approval process really short with options to waive the patch fee if they feel the developer needs it.

Sony Revamps Games Approval Process; Removes Concept Submission, Greenlighting, Voting, and More

Wondering if that affects anything unless you guys have already gone through those processes.

Still Microsoft is there.

 

[mattk]

It would be a brave man who released a virtually unknown game (Sorry Ross) on the same day against a game with the Ashes license

 

[BigAntStudios]

It would be a brave man who released a virtually unknown game (Sorry Ross) on the same day against a game with the Ashes license

Happy with the decision to spend our money on gameplay rather than blowing it on a license, this is a marathon, not a sprint.

 

[sahilnatu]

Happy with the decision to spend our money on gameplay rather than blowing it on a license, this is a marathon, not a sprint.

True that. Never a big fan of licences, (cos we've got CA! ).
Ross, since you've been communicating rather well this morning (morning in India that is) could you tell us when are we going to get the final update of CA? Does the Jun21 date affect its timing?

 

[ricky87]

The million dollar question. Ross, are you going to take the release date as 21st and go ahead with your plans or rather wait even more?

Ross, since it is Sibi who is asking and also because you said you will confirm or deny June 21 as the release date of your game if we could find out the release date for Ashes 13, so now that it has been confirmed any chance you can reveal your plans please?

 

[cricket_online]

Happy with the decision to spend our money on gameplay rather than blowing it on a license, this is a marathon, not a sprint.

Couldn't agree more with that sentiment