Demigod

Is it true that some of the people who helped work on Demigod are also involved with the development of Monday Night Combat?

Yes. One example would be Scathis.

A large percentage of Uber employees came from Gas Power Games, the studio that did Demigod and Supreme Commander, some of whom did work on Demigod at some point before joining Uber.

Scathis would indeed be one of those.

This is pleasing to me. I loved both the games. Specially Demigod.

Demigod was one of my favorite games ever, but Monday Night Combat is already far better than Demigod ever was. As much as I like GPG, splitting from it and forming Uber was a great decision. Demigod never had any dev or publisher run tournaments. We got one week 1 with the intention made clear for more. I love this game.

Demigod was absolutely terrible, but it was more the publisher's fault than the developer. You just couldn't get any games together due to the absolutely horrific lobby code (which was Stardock's part.) Good to see you guys kicking *** without being held back.

It was not Stardock's fault! During 2008 GPG lost 1/2 of its staff when the economy crashed. (Where do you think Uber came from?) GPG gave Demigod no love after Scathis left (he envisioned Demigod) and the post release support was miserable. GPG was in shambles during 2008-2009 barely able to get anything done. The netcode had nothing to do with Stardock's code. People who don't know what they're talking about only blame Stardock because they stood up and tried to fix it.

I don't think if all of this is entirely accurate but it's not the kind of conversation I'm comfortable having in public.

Don't get me wrong I loved the game. I hate it when people go to blame Stardock for everything. I have like 270 hours of the game logged on my x-fire profile. But it was a tough time for everyone, so I understand.

There's plenty of blame to go around.

Absolutely. It just wasn't any one (Stardock/GPG) person's fault from my point of view.

Demigod is the reason I followed Uber. You have no idea how much fun my friends and I had with that game. I wanted to stick around with the developers of it. Demigod is Howard's best audio work so far on a game. We literally played it the entire summer of 2009. It was not wasted time and I still hope for the .01% chance of a sequel!

Lol. Jon Mavor told me at PAX East Demigod was a pet project of 2 employees for a while but I only knew Scathis was one of them XD

yay! lets play the blame game! BUSH DID IT! NO WAIT GLOBAL WARMING! OMG ALIENS IT WAS ALIENS!!!1

That's what you get for not posting enough on the forum...

It was a damn shame that Demigod didn't become the great game it should have been. It had so much potential. I'd love to see a sequel as long as they don't change the core gameplay like they did in SupCom2. The only thing that was improved in SupCom2 was the AI after Sorian had a go at it. The design, art and balancing changes were all for the worse imo.

Yes o and I were the original two people on Demigod that did all the initial vision for the game. We both left GPG before it shipped, o left three months before I did.

And you two have my eternal love for that game! (Or just a sale for every game you develop >.>)

It would have been the best moba game out of LoL and HoN had things went differently.

It is looking like Valve will probably end up taking that title. Valve doesn't screw around when it makes games.

Chris Taylor talked about a Demigod 2 at Gamescon >.>

http://www.gamers.fr/actus/2010/08/23/g ... ris-taylor