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Wizard game with golden machine gun12/11/2023 ![]() ![]() I believe that nothing lasts forever, and shouldn’t be forced to. Ultimately, I do have a lot to say about the direction of Team Fortress 2, Valve, and Steam as a whole, but I’ll keep those less-than-positive thoughts to myself. It was always the community and its evolution that made it special, and it’s not something I can get back.īack in 2007 we were provided with a truly outstanding video game, and through its highs and lows it gave us a whole lot of enjoyment. The maps were weird, and they were bland. Most of its major features were just taken from other games I was inspired by, the actual unique stuff few and far between. ![]() What made GMG’s server unique was, quite frankly, not much. If I’m going to make a game, or anything really, I’m going to do it because I enjoy it and I think others might too. As one of my favorite artists Bo Burnham once said, “if you can live your life without an audience, you should do it.” If I’ve learned anything from GMG, it’s that true happiness doesn’t come from the game of capitalism and fame. I have no drive to make loads of money, to become famous if anything, it’s repulsive. I feel no impulse to contribute anything. ![]() These days, I feel that gaming industry is gross and the market oversaturated. Just a few years ago I said I’d like to continue GMG’s spirit, through two different games: a single-player adventure through the expanded environments of Chambers, Tunnels, and Butterfield, and another multiplayer VR experience emulating the hangout with minigames nature of The District in Chambers. I know I will never see something like it again in my lifetime, as I will never go through teenagehood again. This is where I both put my time and cared to put my time. It’s a part of me as much as middle and high school are, realistically even more so. School and real life friends became less important when I could come home and create what I enjoyed and have hundreds of people enjoy it too. As they should be.įor myself, GMG is where I grew up. The community really only exists now as a memory, as we’ve all moved on to bigger places, and although we still have occasional get-togethers, the special times are embedded in the past. I’ve seen ripples from the end of the GMG server in the TF2 world, and it’s heartwarming. We started as a stupid little achievement server, and ended as a stupid big achievement server (with benefits). The regular players on the server, the posters on the forums, the contributors, the friends I’ve made, even the individuals who vowed revenge after being banned thank you for joining the adventure. With no website to broadcast to, the Steam group looking like a desert, the Discord server boasting a lonely 45 members, I’ve chosen to return to the video format in hopes that this echo resonates to those who still linger somewhere on the web.įirst off, I want to thank everyone who was a part of Golden Machine Gun in any way during its lifetime. You probably weren’t expecting a clip show and a final announcement. Perhaps you came here expecting another reboot of the servers, or some sort of new GMG game. Time really flies now, doesn’t it? This is probably my eighth draft or so of this announcement in the past four years, but here it finally is. My life has changed exponentially in the last few years, which I’m sure many of you can relate to. To be quite honest, I had forgotten at the time. Hello! Today, it has been a month since the TENTH birthday of Golden Machine Gun. ![]()
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