Longplay a indie | The Many Pieces of Mr Coo (2023) a game from Dev Hell
5Welcome to yet another 7 year of developed game (more like 11 , since the whole process actually took 11 years), by a single person ... that's not even finished ... missing like 30% or more content ... from the missing gallery at the end and its padding of Art ... to ending ... a story how a Animator that developed a game , got shafted by a Publisher that ported and pushed the game on all consoles... forgetting to make to work ... beta that is patched with features :/
so yeah ... cute art game , that is too short ... and has no ending ... got shafted by publisher that ported it over ...
" Statement by author Nacho Rodríguez / Declaración del autor
(versión en castellano más abajo)
Hello everyone. I am Nacho Rodríguez, author and animator of The Many Pieces of Mr Coo. On the 7th of September, the video game was released without my approval.
I have been working on this game since 2012, full-time since 2018. My goal was to create a unique experience for the player, of the highest quality.
Tens of thousands of frames of animation, drawn by hand, hundreds of hours spent structuring the sequences to create a fascinating gaming experience. This has been recognised with international awards and nominations, even before the game was finished.
To complete the production, I partnered with Gammera Nest in 2018, so that they would be in charge of the port to consoles and PC, while I would take care of the art and give precise instructions to the team.
My animation and art work was completed in 2020, and the instructions have been available since then. But Gammera's programming got messier and messier. Eventually, they began to cut me out of the decision-making process, while continuing to promise that they would deliver on their end.
At this point, I can't tell you much about the inner workings. I'll just say that I waited patiently because I was told that "we both had the common goal of releasing the game with the desired quality". When it became clear that it was too late, I asked for the release to be cancelled or at least postponed, but it was released in a bad state anyway.
Now that the game has been released, numerous bug reports confirm that the promised quality was never achieved. Critics point out the technical flaws and give the game a low score, while praising the artistic part.
Players have encountered all kinds of bugs and poor gameplay, especially in the last third of the game. Although it can be played from start to finish, and the experience sometimes reaches the desired quality, it eventually degenerates into something unpleasant and not very satisfying. We can see this in the reviews and in the gameplays on YouTube.
In addition to my work, there have been very creative people who have struggled to make a good game. Because of all these efforts, I would like to make it clear that the game that has been released is not faithful to the instructions given, nor is it the experience that was designed for the player. It makes me sad, because I had hoped to finally be able to share the fruits of so many years of work.
I will continue to fight for the quality of the game, as I have done for more than a decade.
I urge you to inform Gammera Nest of any bugs you find in the game, so they can fix them. And I ask Gammera to include all the content that has been left out.
We await a response from Gammera Nest. Perhaps they will decide to do the right thing and honour the commitment they made when they started the project to port my work. Or perhaps, on the contrary, they'll do the bare minimum and deprive players of a complete and quality experience.
At the same time, I would like to express my gratitude for the generosity and expressions of appreciation from so many players and friends who have been able to look beyond the technical problems and still manage to enjoy the game.
I'm sorry I can't yet offer you the work that Mr Coo should have been.
Thanks for listening,
Nacho "
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1602560/discussions/0/3816293260301596465/
For more art from him go here :
https://www.youtube.com/@mistercoo_game/videos
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