So... I've been talking about how I had all these new game ideas lined up, which probably nobody believed me about, and for awhile I've been so busy with running my Bitcoin casino that I haven't had a chance to sit down and make any of them a reality. But all I want to do is design new games, and I've got all these crazy sketches in my notebook. It takes a couple hundred hours to turn any of them into what I see in my head. But I don't like people thinking I'm just blowing smoke when I say I'm workin on something, so here goes another one... like I said, I'm just gonna keep doing this and I hope it does scare the crap out of MG and Playtech. This is the first new slot since I launched my site 3 months ago, and my fourth one so far. I love making these things, thinking about them, how to make them original and how to make 'em fun.
Video's a little choppy because I took it on my laptop, but the game plays smooth on any computer from the last 2-3 years. It's called Scuba Cube, and in keeping with how I want to do things differently, it's designed to be a real combination of brains and luck. You can win it either way. I don't think there's anything quite like it out there, it's kind of a slot, kind of skill-based... has a perfect 100% RTP if it's played perfectly every time, or about a 96% RTP if you just play it in slot mode. I wanted to share it here first... it's going online tonight for the Bitcoin players... what happens next, nobody knows
Now, two different industry software companies asked me to come work for them if I'd shut down and ditch my casino project and my work for the last few years, in exchange for a high-five, low-six figure sum, and ...I can't do that. Because broke and in debt as I am, I quit the only decent job I had for this, and having put every dime I ever made into this thing, I don't want to spend the next year of my short, drunk, gambling & smoking life working on another goddamn Pai Gow game or somethin. Only to be forgotten. This is part one of a five-or-six-part opus, guys. Now I have respect for the casinos that made the offers because they're fair, and honest, but I'm sick of seeing the same old stuff and I suspect a lot of players are, too. So this is a little rant for the industry folks... I do want to make money, I'm not some kinda maniac ascetic who digs being poor and living on lentils, even though I've lived on lentils plenty and I don't have a problem with 'em. Being a Bitcoin casino owner is great, and now I have a fireplace, which is new for me, and now I'd like to get paid what my time's worth. I get that I'm not invited to the club as a casino owner, and I'll never be because no casino owner in history ever wrote his own software and it's a rich man's game. But I'm not a just another keyboard jockey you can stick in a cubicle and forget about. Despite the fact I didn't go to college and never held down a white collar job, I drove a cab long enough to know when I'm about to get taken for a ride.
So here's what I can do. You can look at it and play with it, and I don't need no patent 'cause it'll cost you at least $125k to reproduce it, and I can make two more in the time it takes you to do it. I wrote the math, the graphics, the platform, the 3D rotations, the sounds, the security and the interface in less than 3 months from concept to completion...and I also plan to make money off selling it, and not a little. If you know your software sucks or your games are old or no one trusts your brand, however honest and reputable and innovative you are; and you paid $300k last year for a team of guys who didn't do much; you probably need a fresh view on things. You're gonna get what you pay for. You think I'm just so desperate I'll go work for basically nothing, for the privilege of it or something, and give up my dream of freedom just to make a quick buck? I won't. You know, at night I think about how to write these things, and how I'd write 'em if I was locked in a cell...how just thinking the math would keep me alive, how I'd do it in my head so I wouldn't go crazy, and how when I came out I'd be prepared to do one a day. So far I haven't heard anything that makes me want to give up any degree of independence, and if I have to steal all your customers over to Bitcoin by writing better games than your outsource guys in India can, then that's the way I'll go. So... don't try forcing me to give up what I care about the most, my site, my independence and my creativity. Which would be why you'd want to hire me in the first place, right? You can grind on another 10 years the way you're goin', and don't worry about me...I have a long way to go before I catch up... but if you aren't offering an alliance based on mutual respect, then it's something you think I'm just a kid you can take advantage of.
Anyway, rant finished, I'm goin out to smoke a cigarette and take a deep breath. It's been a long three months, and I'm going to write about all of it on my blog here later.
Video's a little choppy because I took it on my laptop, but the game plays smooth on any computer from the last 2-3 years. It's called Scuba Cube, and in keeping with how I want to do things differently, it's designed to be a real combination of brains and luck. You can win it either way. I don't think there's anything quite like it out there, it's kind of a slot, kind of skill-based... has a perfect 100% RTP if it's played perfectly every time, or about a 96% RTP if you just play it in slot mode. I wanted to share it here first... it's going online tonight for the Bitcoin players... what happens next, nobody knows
Now, two different industry software companies asked me to come work for them if I'd shut down and ditch my casino project and my work for the last few years, in exchange for a high-five, low-six figure sum, and ...I can't do that. Because broke and in debt as I am, I quit the only decent job I had for this, and having put every dime I ever made into this thing, I don't want to spend the next year of my short, drunk, gambling & smoking life working on another goddamn Pai Gow game or somethin. Only to be forgotten. This is part one of a five-or-six-part opus, guys. Now I have respect for the casinos that made the offers because they're fair, and honest, but I'm sick of seeing the same old stuff and I suspect a lot of players are, too. So this is a little rant for the industry folks... I do want to make money, I'm not some kinda maniac ascetic who digs being poor and living on lentils, even though I've lived on lentils plenty and I don't have a problem with 'em. Being a Bitcoin casino owner is great, and now I have a fireplace, which is new for me, and now I'd like to get paid what my time's worth. I get that I'm not invited to the club as a casino owner, and I'll never be because no casino owner in history ever wrote his own software and it's a rich man's game. But I'm not a just another keyboard jockey you can stick in a cubicle and forget about. Despite the fact I didn't go to college and never held down a white collar job, I drove a cab long enough to know when I'm about to get taken for a ride.
So here's what I can do. You can look at it and play with it, and I don't need no patent 'cause it'll cost you at least $125k to reproduce it, and I can make two more in the time it takes you to do it. I wrote the math, the graphics, the platform, the 3D rotations, the sounds, the security and the interface in less than 3 months from concept to completion...and I also plan to make money off selling it, and not a little. If you know your software sucks or your games are old or no one trusts your brand, however honest and reputable and innovative you are; and you paid $300k last year for a team of guys who didn't do much; you probably need a fresh view on things. You're gonna get what you pay for. You think I'm just so desperate I'll go work for basically nothing, for the privilege of it or something, and give up my dream of freedom just to make a quick buck? I won't. You know, at night I think about how to write these things, and how I'd write 'em if I was locked in a cell...how just thinking the math would keep me alive, how I'd do it in my head so I wouldn't go crazy, and how when I came out I'd be prepared to do one a day. So far I haven't heard anything that makes me want to give up any degree of independence, and if I have to steal all your customers over to Bitcoin by writing better games than your outsource guys in India can, then that's the way I'll go. So... don't try forcing me to give up what I care about the most, my site, my independence and my creativity. Which would be why you'd want to hire me in the first place, right? You can grind on another 10 years the way you're goin', and don't worry about me...I have a long way to go before I catch up... but if you aren't offering an alliance based on mutual respect, then it's something you think I'm just a kid you can take advantage of.
Anyway, rant finished, I'm goin out to smoke a cigarette and take a deep breath. It's been a long three months, and I'm going to write about all of it on my blog here later.
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