What Went Wrong? - DreamWorld

What Went Wrong with DreamWorld? Pretty much everything from the start. From millions in funding to then setting up a Kickstarter, only to be exposed relentlessly online and to be labelled a scam by most.

This is a long video but with the DreamWorld story ongoing, multiple parts are required. This video covers mostly surface level things and the story only gets deeper the more you explore.

DreamWorld is beginning to show signs of improvement at least from what we saw in the Alpha release but I will remain sceptical until they deliver on what they promised.

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[DrVagax]

"They were running with me because they liked my music"

This is the same caliber as "and everyone stood up and clapped"

[daytonadangler]

When he was at the intersection there was a wait signal up so everyone needed to stop and they avoided eye contact because he was a maniac blasting dubstep from his backpack.

[gmoCantaloupe]

Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or Zachary Kaplan where his 9 years of game dev experience come from

[fathomtuns]

I love when snakeoil devs talk about their project having "every genre and style of game, all in one!" It's kinda like a paint manufacturer saying they've "mixed every color into one super awesome paint", but it just looks like expensive mud.

[gunterthekaiser]

If I had a penny for every failed MMO that saw itself as the greatest project ever made, I'd be rich enough to make the bloody game.

[VonSnuggles]

"when I'd stop at an intersection they'd stop and look around like they were pretending not to notice me"

Honestly him getting hit by a cab twice makes sense if he doesn't realize that people look both ways before crossing the street.

[gyroscope]

Technically I worked at google.

They ran an competition type thing at my uni and selected a few students to intern with them for a couple months.

It ended up being all the interns mostly sitting in a corner talking shit with each other and occasionally a few us would be allowed to sit in on design meetings to see how they played out.

That was about it.
The biggest thing I learned during that intership was some guy taught me to play YU GI YO while we where sitting around.


But I still get to say I was an intern at google, even if I did nothing there and learned nothing.

[KaeYoss]

"I was blasting music while running and I noticed people following me" That is to be expected. The surprising part is when they didn't beat the living daylight out of him when they caught him.

[cewla]

on the 9th year of game dev my true love gave to me
9 banned journalists
8 broken games
7 unkept promises
6 pr disasters
5 child moderators
4 opaque developers
3 blatant lies
2 sob stories
And an analasis on why it's bad!

[ven]

"The last game you will ever play" is like a "Don't let your girlfriend catch you playing this" slogan.

[crystalnadeau]

Zach: Yeah, so I kept getting hit by cars, it was so weird.

Also Zach: So later, I finally realized I was supposed to stop at intersections, and it was weird because everyone else was also stopping at the intersections--but it wasn't about the cars, it was about my music man. People couldn't get enough of it!

[QueenLizby]

I feel like "my fiance left me soon after" could be a great meme template, like "I broke my leg, fell into debt with the mafia, and my fiance left me soon after" it just flows well as this "kick me while I'm down" kind of line that feels too comedic to be true.

[PenguinDT]

Every time I hear it, I'm in stitches. It's too perfect. Dude getting hit by multiple taxis is amazed how people stop at intersections to look around. The conclusion; must be my speakers.
To this day, I can't tell which is worse - that it is real and that is his thought process, or that he made it up thinking it was a good sales pitch.

[Katie-hjeb]

Wow every genre!

I can't believe its a:
- visual novel
- turn based rpg
- dating sim
- 2D platformer
- tactics game
- metroidvania
- text adventure


All in one!

[Jedi-xmrw]

When he got hit twice by cars, I like that his decision wasn't to:
1. Stop listening to music,
2. Wear open-back headphones or something that would allow him to hear the surrounding environment better.
3 look both ways when you cross the street.
But to start up a company and spend a ton of money to make a Bluetooth speaker, which isn't exactly a revolutionary device.

[TheTrainMaster]

God gave up too early by not throwing a third taxi at him

[namAehT]

Fun Fact: MAC addresses can be spoofed super easily, meaning literally anyone could just change it and sign in under someone else's profile.

[UOUPv]

"If you see a tree and you wanna cut it down, go cut it down, if you see dirt that needs digging go dig that dirt, if you see a mountain that needs leveling take that pickaxe and go level that mountain."

Yes, I've played Minecraft, thank you.

[Inkspeckle]

whenever I hear someone describe themselves as a "serial entrepeneur" what that tells me is that they're someone who either can't commit to a project long-term or someone who has overinflated ideas that repeatedly fail on contact with reality.

[schleepy]

Dude the amount of “drama sighs” during his sob story is hilarious.