In the last week alone PewDiePie has released 15 videos. Kritz struggles with the idea that all of this might be for nothing. This is the nature of instant internet fame. “Even with all that, the game didn’t make it.” The first result that popped up was a PewDiePie video with 3 million views. Kritz typed the name of the game into a search engine. I wanted to know, why did this game fail?”
“I forget how far the funding got, but it wasn’t enough to succeed. The art style was fantastic and the game looked legitimately good. “It was a 2D horror game with a little lightbulb guy. “There was one that looked really cool,” he remembers. The first thing he did was look up Kickstarters that failed. Haunted by the idea of the PewDiePie hype fading into nothing, Kritz began investigating the idea of launching a Kickstarter. He didn’t want to get caught up in the (PewDie)Pie in the sky land of fleeting internet fame and ignore the important every day task of actually completing his degree. Point being: Kritz didn’t want to fail another class. He actually failed his Advanced Games Programming class last year by attending PAX Australia, but that’s another story.
“But I was just sitting there trying to focus on my exams.”Īs mentioned before, Kritz was/is a student, in his final year of a Bachelor of Computing degree (“which I think is the most broad sounding degree ever named”) he also managed to major in Game Design (“by accident,” he admits). You should capitalise on this! Run ads on the site, start a Kickstarter! Ride this wave before it crashes. It was never really intended to be anything to anyone, let alone the 25,000 randoms who suddenly swept in and left his servers in tatters.īut now Kritz started getting advice. Citizen Burger Disorder was really just a hobby project, says Kritz, an excuse to “make people laugh and dork about”. The speed at which the PewDiePie train blew past induced a certain amount of anxiety, not just in Kritz himself, but in the people around him. “So that stuff blew through pretty fast I guess.” “I walked into the computing lunch room at University to tell some friends,” Kritz remembers. As soon as Kritz got word he fired off a text message to a buddy who promptly replied, “um yeah, you didn’t know?” It was his sister’s boyfriend who first noticed. Hilariously, Kritz was practically the last person to know. “When did the game become playable?” I once asked him. By Kritz’s own admission it’s pretty broken. It’s absolute chaos in video game form and it has to be seen to be believed. A weird collection of disjointed buzzwords. In short it’s a physics-based, co-op burger restaurant management simulator. Kritz himself has difficulty describing it. That game was called Citizen Burger Disorder.Ĭitizen Burger Disorder. The server in question was responsible for hosting the website that hosted the video game that Kritz was working on in his spare time. This was the other reason why Kritz was having a pretty terrible day. Kritz - a student - shuffled off and began work on his assignment, programming a pathfinding algorithm he’d been putting off. “In retrospect, I probably should have known something was up.” “I didn’t think much of it at the time, but yeah,” recalls Kritz. “The RAM usage was completely unusable, the sql server had just given up”.įive minutes later, the server goes down again.
“The CPU was running at 100% capacity,” he remembers. Kritz awoke to news it had all gone to shit for some reason, he had no idea why. It was an uncommonly sucky day and it was completely screwed up from the start.įor one thing, Kritz’s server was down.
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