I think this is part of the story. Here is something I copied from another forum, purported to be written by Jarek Kolar. I seem to remember reading this a long, long time ago so I think it is legit. But for what it is worth ...
Let me express some after-release thoughts. I am going to write them here on the forum, because it's nothing I could put on our official site... it's only for you, our fans.
During the development, I was the most optimistic guy in the team and even in the days full of problems I was very optimistic. Now when the development is over, the optimism fell down like a coat. How could I be so naive to believe that if we will keep our part -- finishing the game in good quality and on time -- everything is going to be fine? How wrong I was. We were working hard to finish the game as scheduled, and then because of the damn manuals being not ready, the game slipped few weeks. Then number of other reasons is ruing our game. I was expecting some support, some promotion, something, but I just had pain in my head. Where is the help they have promised, where is the "after the realease" which have they spoke about? What's going on?
Oh dear, how naive I was, how many bad decisions I made, what wrong ideas I had. Many. When we have finished VC1 I had a feeling that we are SKILLED and EXPERIENCED developers. I thought that I know how to make a good game. No. I didn't know anything. The game development is very complicated and you may easily make wrong step. I don't want to complain on our publisher, because I believe that all the publishers are the same. The only person I can complain about is myself.
Maybe VC2 will be our last game. Well, maybe the last non-successful one. Although I am very pessimistic at the moment and I see everything dim, I feel that there will be good things coming...
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