{"id":5030,"date":"2015-08-21T21:35:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2017-01-24T19:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T19:48:39","slug":"castle-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2015\/08\/21\/castle-again-and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Castel, encore et encore  <br><i>Castle, again and again<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019\u00e9diteur qui devait publier la nouvelle \u00e9dition de Castel a donc d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de renoncer \u00e0 ce projet, ne se sentant pas soutenu par les auteurs \u2013 enfin, surtout par moi. De mon c\u00f4t\u00e9, je ne me suis jamais senti \u00e9cout\u00e9, ce qui explique que j\u2019ai exprim\u00e9 ma frustration sur ce site, peut-\u00eatre de fa\u00e7on un peu brutale.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e8s le d\u00e9but, nos relations ont \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s difficiles. Il aurait sans doute \u00e9t\u00e9 plus sage de laisser tomber plus t\u00f4t, mais nous avions d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de continuer malgr\u00e9 nos d\u00e9saccords. Depuis les premiers probl\u00e8mes, l\u2019\u00e9diteur s\u2019est en effet beaucoup investi dans ce jeu, et a finalement fait faire de chouettes illustrations par un illustrateur sympathique et talentueux, Mihajlo Dimitrievski. Au point o\u00f9 nous en sommes arriv\u00e9s, tout abandonner sur un coup de col\u00e8re me semble la plus mauvaise des solutions pour tout le monde, et j\u2019esp\u00e8re encore que Ludicreations reviendra sur sa d\u00e9cision.<\/p>\n<p>En trente ans, j\u2019ai r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 ne presque jamais me f\u00e2cher avec mes \u00e9diteurs, au nombre pourtant d\u2019une cinquantaine. M\u00eame lorsque les choses \u00e9taient compliqu\u00e9es, m\u00eame lorsqu\u2019un \u00e9diteur prenait des ann\u00e9es de retard dans la sortie d\u2019un jeu, m\u00eame lorsqu\u2019un \u00e9diteur me devait pas mal d\u2019argent, m\u00eame lorsqu\u2019un \u00e9diteur buggait gravement la production d\u2019un jeu \u2013 et tout cela m\u2019est arriv\u00e9 &#8211; je suis parvenu \u00e0 maintenir des relations sinon amicales, du moins tr\u00e8s courtoises. Ce n\u2019est que la deuxi\u00e8me fois que je me f\u00e2che avec un \u00e9diteur \u2013 la premi\u00e8re fois, c\u2019\u00e9tait il y a vingt ans, avec Multisim, le premier \u00e9diteur de Citadelles.<\/p>\n<p>Je d\u00e9teste en arriver au clash, je d\u00e9teste me faire des ennemis, et j\u2019esp\u00e8re qu\u2019il est encore temps de revenir en arri\u00e8re et d\u2019arranger les choses. On va encore garder le jeu au chaud quelques mois dans l\u2019espoir que Ludicreations revienne sur sa d\u00e9cision. Je demande donc aux quelques autres \u00e9diteurs qui avaient r\u00e9cemment fait part de leur int\u00e9r\u00eat pour ce jeu d\u2019attendre encore un peu.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>The publisher who was supposed to publish a new edition of Castle this fall has decided to give up, because he felt he wasn\u2019t supported by the designers \u2013 and specifically by me. On the other hand, I felt I was never listened to, and this might explain why I expressed my frustration on this website \u2013 may be in a too harsh and direct way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Relations were difficult from the very beginning. It might have been wiser to give up earlier, but we decided to go on despite our misunderstandings. Since these first problems, the publisher invested much money, time and energy in this game, and even finally hired a nice and talented artist, Mihajlo Dimitrievski, to make the graphics. After going that far, giving up on a whim is probably the worse solution for everybody, and I still hope that Ludicreations will reconsider its decision.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m designing games for thirty years, and have worked with about fifty different publishers, but so far I almost managed to\u00a0 never fall out with any one of them. Even when things were intricate, when a publisher was falling years behind for publishing a game, when a publisher owed me years of royalties, when a publisher seriously bugged the production of a game \u2013 and all this did arrive \u2013 I kept friendly, or at least courteous relations with them. It\u2019s only the second time I fall out with a publisher, the first one being twenty years ago with Multisim, the first publisher of Citadels.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I hate clashing with people I work with, I hate making new enemies, and I hope it\u2019s still time to move back and try to set things right. We\u2019ll keep the game in waiting for a few months, hoping Ludicreations will change his mind. If they don\u2019t, we\u2019ll contact again next year the few publishers who recently showed an interest in it, but I still hope it won\u2019t get that far.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019\u00e9diteur qui devait publier la nouvelle \u00e9dition de Castel a donc d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de renoncer \u00e0 ce projet, ne se sentant pas soutenu par les auteurs \u2013 enfin, surtout par moi. De mon c\u00f4t\u00e9, je ne me suis jamais senti \u00e9cout\u00e9, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2015\/08\/21\/castle-again-and-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[97],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-5030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castel-castle","tag-castel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HNOP-1j8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5030"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6692,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5030\/revisions\/6692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}