Dr DisRespect's NFT Game Where Players Vote On Development Features Feels Better On Paper Than In Practise
Dr DisRespect is making a video game, but that isn’t as strange as you might think. Before The Two-Time made it big streaming, he was a level designer for Call of Duty. Back before he got his doctorate in disrespect, he went by the name Guy Beahm and was an accomplished game dev. For his new game, dubbed Project Moon, he’s in a more senior role than ever before, but it isn’t as if he’s just a streamer who decided making video games must be as easy as play them. Still, the planned rollout for the game seems very strange, and unlikely to be helpful for anyone involved.
On paper, the plan’s basic intentions sound good. Vertical slices (heavily restricted portions of a game) will be released sporadically, and the game will change based on player feedback. Personally, l don’t like this idea of focus testing games: players aren’t necessarily the best judge of what they want, because the masses like the safety of the familiar, and individuals prefer to be surprised. Not to mention playtesting is usually something that studios pay for. I know games are fun and Doc is rad, and 'democratising' development is the perfect crowd-please, but what he’s doing is using his community for free labour.
Related: Dr DisRespect’s NFT Game Is Star Citizen For Gen Z
Getting people to work for free for you isn't the only problem. First off, you need to have a special Doctor DisRespect NFT to be in the community, which is just stupid. No gaming meets NFT ideas are ever good, as the ridiculous NFT console - the Polium One - proves. However good the idea of letting your players shape your game is, and I maintain that it’s not really a good idea, the NFT thing makes it a non-starter. It’s like devising the fairest, most equal and just political
Read more on thegamer.com
