The makers of Palworld are desperate to hire more developers: 'We are overwhelmingly short of people' : games

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Great news, cause there should be plenty of them with all of the gaming industry layoffs.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Turns out that making a good game matters more than IP, publishers, cramming, and layoffs.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Careers pages seems very Japanese focused. Which I mean if knowing Japanese is preq it is what it is, but might limit the amount of the newly released devs in the market.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean it's a Japanese company so it makes sense that they would focus on hiring Japanese people

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

No doubt!

[–] krimson@feddit.nl 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Genuine question, what makes this game so popular?

[–] Dettweiler42@lemm.ee 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's Ark, Pokemon, and BOTW thrown into a blender and filtered down to the good bits.

[–] ganoo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

Best features of best games crammed together. It lacks end game, but everything else is fun with few exceptions.

[–] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's a (opt. Co-Op) Pokemon Survival Craft Base&Factory Building Game with Guns.

While sometimes buggy and rough around the edges, and without offering many original ideas, the ensemble of everything they threw together is really good.

Sure, it's far from perfect, and every other moment, you can see the quite heavy inspirations they got from popular franchises.

But it's quite good.

While not surpassing any of its inspirations in the field they got inspired in, it offers all these other things the inspirations missed.

It's parts may not be that good, but overall, it's the combination of those parts that make it.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

It’s a legally distinct (opt. Co-Op) Pokemon Survival Craft Base&Factory Building Game with Guns.

[–] directive0@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Its fun with minimal bullshit.

[–] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

People have been wanting a similar open world Pokemon game for the longest time and Nintendo just hasn't delivered. Plus Americans really love guns.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.de 10 points 8 months ago

To be honest the guns come relatively late in the tech tree of the game, bows and crossbows are used most of the time.

[+] gibmiser@lemmy.world -45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Hopefully they are hiring lawyers cause Nintendo is coming

E: and here I thought I was just shitposting. Calm your tits fanboys.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nintendo will get slapped down hard if they attempt to sue over this. They do not have a monopoly on brightly colored creatures.

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yepp, if they were attempting anything grand they'd have filed by now. The worst they could bring from this point is maybe infringement on a Pal by Pal basis but even there I feel there's not much to go on given that Pokemon draws so heavily from the real world and you can't really claim a concept like "volcano turtle mashup" as something so uniquely creative that it deserves copyright on the concept level. Same goes for just about all Pokemon with maybe some exceptions. So while Palworld absolutely has stuff like "electric dog" and others which overlap that is not enough.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

A lot of the things like volcano turtle are based on existing mythology or urban legends, they aren't even unique to Pokemon.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Almost wish they would. Lord knows Pocket Pair has the money to drop on a real legal defense right now, and I would love to see Nintendo take a hard L

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 24 points 8 months ago

If they were, we probably would have seen it by now.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why though? Why would Nintendo's legal team try to take action against Palworld? Please teach me, with actual fact as proof please.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nintendo is infamously litigious and basically always has been; in 1987 they threatened to sue the developers of The Great Giana Sisters for publishing a game that wasn't dissimilar to Super Mario Bros. No lawsuit was filed but the game was withdrawn from production. They've issued cease and desist letters to makers of fan games, other game developers, fanartists, hell I'm surprised anyone anywhere even tries to work with them.

Given the substantial resemblance of Palworld's creatures to Pokemon and their "No Unapproved Fun" stance to everything I am not alone in being surprised Nintendo hasn't tried anything.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The one thing that connects all those points and examples is that Nintendo has not sued anyone, non of that was ever taken to a court. Because in a lot of this cases the chance to loose was substantial bigger then zero and a ruling against them would have had major implications.

So yes, they bully, they use the tools like DMCA (and EUCD in Europe) claims and takedowns, and stern letters from their lawyers but only when the chance for winning is really high they will go to a court to sue. Why go to a court when you know that the person on the other side will cave in, not because you are right but because the costs for them to get right would be way to high.

The chance for loosing in this case is really high and the last Nintendo/Pokémon Company wants is a judge to rule that the designs are not that distinctive or "original works" at all.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

In 1987, we were much shorter on legal precedent for video games. You'd be here all day listing games similar to Metroid, let alone Mario since 1987.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For what?

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee -3 points 8 months ago

For lots of money Nintendo believe should be theirs.

[+] Scrof@sopuli.xyz -71 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Well it shows by that hack of a job you called a game.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 36 points 8 months ago

The one that tons of people are enjoying?

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago

It's a fun game

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Found the Nintendo Lawyer

[–] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I agree. It's a fun game, obviously, but it runs like doodoo a lot of the time, and is very much missing some core building mechanics. Enshrouded came out like a week later and has me way more hooked.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I've been turned off from it just because it crashes on me constantly. I can load into some worlds, but my main playthrough with my SO no longer loads. It immediately crashes. What's dumb is I could stream it via GamePass Cloud but it looks like crap. No real reason it should be crashing either with my R9 5950x, 3080 Ti, 32 GB RAM.

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