07-15-2015, 10:16 PM
(07-15-2015, 09:36 PM)Simbax Wrote:But we can change that. That's why Colobot: Gold Edition exists. That's why we're still here.(07-15-2015, 08:11 PM)CHmSID Wrote: You guys gathered together from the love to this game. If you start coming here for money I think this community, or rather Terranova Team, will break down.
And only people with love to this game will stay here. A lot have already lost the love and nobody new is coming. Nowadays, Colobot isn't even one of a kind, because there is a lot of (good) programming games much better achieving their goals. Colobot doesn't even have a serious programming language, so there is even no motivation to learn from it. In my opinion, this project is already dead for the supposed target audience. It was already dead in 2001, as it was too hard to learn anything from it without previous at least little knowledge about real Computer Science and nearly everyone beat it without any programming, so it missed its main goal. This project is only attractive for people, who remember the game from their young ages, not for completely new people who hear about it the first time. Most of us can't even convince our closest friends to the game, and we want to convince some random guy on the Internet, who has never programmed before?
No thrilling plot, too small educational value, no shocking graphics, no sophisticated sandbox, no anything to attract anyone new. If we would like to advertise it, we would need to lie, [...]