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What Happened to Paprium? [Video Documentary] (St1ka's Retro Corner)
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I've preordered Paprium like 4 years ago
I know I lost my money, I know Fonzi is a scammer and I know people who were attending the launch party with a demo that consisted of no gameplay and a single character on screen in empty stages are still completely deluded, one of them even telling me that he saw a boxart!!!
I'm taking the loss and never ever "preordering" a retro game
I know I lost my money, I know Fonzi is a scammer and I know people who were attending the launch party with a demo that consisted of no gameplay and a single character on screen in empty stages are still completely deluded, one of them even telling me that he saw a boxart!!!
I'm taking the loss and never ever "preordering" a retro game
This all started with information from the Sega 16 thread, 609 pages, 1.3 million views, hell of a thing.
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?22142-Paprium-Official-Thread/
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?22142-Paprium-Official-Thread/
This documentary is really, really good. More people should watch it.
While we're at it, since nobody else has really talked about it -- what happened to Elysian Shadows in the Dreamcast space is similarly fascinating. Nobody talks about that, though.
While we're at it, since nobody else has really talked about it -- what happened to Elysian Shadows in the Dreamcast space is similarly fascinating. Nobody talks about that, though.
yes! that dude has been posting videos and FB posts for years showing off banal features of his engine, without addressing anything, and then you bring it up (I think DC Junkyard asked), and he gets all ornery.
He's got a new job at intel or something I believe, and he claims the nearly $200k he raised is all entirely used up, so no backers will ever get fulfilled. He openly admits this. He says his backers always knew they were getting an engine first and foremost, and that the game was a bonus on top, which is not at all what his campaign promised. He also said he got hair plugs, but they didn't come from the KS money, but rather it came from his wife as a marriage gift. And I'm certainly well versed on the difference between personal finance and business finance, and how a business failing shouldn't mean the individual fails necessarily, but given the nature of his product, he really should have been using that money to get something out of the door instead of hair plugs.
He also said the his game is way better looking than Octopath traveler. Like 5 years of dev time and $200k and this is what he's produced:
Regarding FB posts, those actually stopped about a year ago. He hasn't really communicated anything in about a year.
Something something about how the tech underneath is supposed to be insane and the art doesn't reflect it.
I really do understand being in love with your engine, especially the tech powering it, but statements like that just wind up making you look really bad. The guy everyone is talking about regarding Elysian Shadows is Falco Girgis, and he's been an interesting member of Dreamcast homebrew circles since like 2002. I really don't like to bash a single dev like this, but i feel like Falco took advantage of the close knit relationship of the DC Dev scene and burned a lot of nice people who just wanted to help out a person they'd known online for decades.