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Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:34 pm
by Aura
http://katawashoujo.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... -work.html

I think it's just too old, too tangled and too intricate to really understand. In theory, it should not work at all

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:59 pm
by delta
4LS consists of unpaired electrons, but sometimes creativity can cause them to align in the same direction.

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:07 pm
by Warwick
D'aaw Aura makes the devs moe~♥

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:10 pm
by GG Crono
Aura wrote:In theory, it should not work at all
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Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:20 pm
by Eadwacer
Good description of the team dynamics. It's very hard to capture the feel of something like this in a dry technical discussion, particularly in short form and without personal descriptions. What you need is to write a novel about it, or write it as if you were an outsider, looking in. This is hard to do. There's an old book, Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder, about a team developing a new computer, that is probably the best non-fic example. You could capture the feel the same way, except that you'd have to expand each of your paragraphs into a chapter.

BTW one of the things Kidder talks about that you don't mention is signing up, where someone agrees to take on a specific part of the job. The team leader's task was very often to go around and talk the developers into signing up for a specific part of the project. I'd be interested to hear if 4LS has any of that sort of dynamic (given that there's no official team leader).

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:25 pm
by Pimmy
Magic is involved!

Delta is the wizard.

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 2:31 pm
by VCR
Pimmy wrote:Magic is involved!

Delta is the wizard.
Spoilers: Delta is the Rainbow Wizard
In all seriousness, great post.

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 2:44 pm
by Poli-Gluttanous
...Why in the name of all that's holy did I find that heartwarming?

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:53 pm
by Csihar
Aura wrote:Right this moment, as I'm writing this, I'm also idly following and occasionally participating in a 50-minute long discussion about Hisao's penis in one of the Lilly path H CGs.
There are no words to describe how this makes me feel.

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:16 pm
by ze spy
WELP, YOU'VE GONE AND MADE ME FEEL LIKE SHIT.

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:09 pm
by ContinualNaba
It scares me how alike this is to a marketing project.

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:25 pm
by Esa94
Csihar wrote:
Aura wrote:Right this moment, as I'm writing this, I'm also idly following and occasionally participating in a 50-minute long discussion about Hisao's penis in one of the Lilly path H CGs.
There are no words to describe how this makes me feel.
It made me laugh. Sounded rather random in the middle of that wall of text.

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:31 pm
by Aura
delta wrote:4LS consists of unpaired electrons, but sometimes creativity can cause them to align in the same direction.
That sounds so romantic somehow~
Eadwacer wrote: I'd be interested to hear if 4LS has any of that sort of dynamic (given that there's no official team leader).
Not really.
ze spy wrote:WELP, YOU'VE GONE AND MADE ME FEEL LIKE SHIT.
Why?

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:10 pm
by Smoku
Aura-kun! You have heterochromia or you just joking?




And, uh... that mentioning of Hisao's penis probably blew out the minds of many fans. I'm still trying to find a few parts of a little nut that's supposed to be my brain around here.

Re: Four Leaf Studios, how does it work?

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:18 pm
by Esa94
Smoku wrote:And, uh... that mentioning of Hisao's penis probably blew out the minds of many fans. I'm still trying to find a few parts of a little nut that's supposed to be my brain around here.
Indeed, now everyone is thinking of Hisao's penis.