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Galaga Galaxian posted:To be honest, he's dragged his feet so long I doubt he's making a profit from this. Feet dragging or not, he likely wasn't making much profit of the $50k to begin with, but still. I'm not a follower of RPG stuff so the discussion here in the last couple days has been the first I've seen of his campaign and in turn how he's handled it. Pretty unbelievable, as others have already pointed out, that he's so comfortable being defensive about his actions after this much time. And I find the new .com hilarious, and even more so that he's acting the victim over it.
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This weekend is the end of Endless Fantasy Tactics kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/otlgames/endless-fantasy-tactics-gaiden They are doing a panel tomorrow for the last hour of the kickstarter at the CMON expo. They had a chatroom last year, which was pretty neat. Plus they are releasing a starter box soon!
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Serf posted:Holy poo poo, back when the Thunder Plains bullshit was going down, Skarka came at me on Twitter for a few hours because I pointed out that he wasn't including Native Americans in his game. Eventually he left me alone, but I've just realized now that he blocked me. I think the most insufferable RPG person on the planet is the guy that ends all his posts by talking about whatever the gently caress stupid tobacco he is smoking in his Latin American grognard shame cabin. I wish the world could block him. From existing.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Of course he dug through the owner's identity like a quote:My guess would be to capture some "Internet Cool Points". It's hip to mine the tears of others for ICP.  Doing it for mah ninjas.quote:So when is Far West coming out then? I backed Alas Vegas and was supposed to be getting a two-fer. 
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Plague of Hats posted:
I'm so glad you made these jokes so I didn't have to.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Of course he dug through the owner's identity like a As a $150 backer of Far West, I officially give my blessings to the website isfarwestoutyet.com and any and all comments about how Gareth Michael Skarka is an unprofessional jerk. There, that's that sorted.
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Leperflesh posted:It's still there. My comment (the third one) is eternal.
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"Waa, you have no money invested, you have no right to care!" "You took fifty thousand dollars nearly four years ago, and have delivered dick-all. You are giving the entire industry a bad name by promising deadlines you know you will never meet, and by playing Internet Detective on anyone who dares comment that you have taken fifty thousand dollars in exchange for nothing." "But none of it was yours so you have no right to complain."
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Jun 20, 2015 11:34
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Ryuutama is up on DriveThru,and if you're a backer you should have a download code in your email.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Ryuutama is up on DriveThru,and if you're a backer you should have a download code in your email. I got two!
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Yeah, so did I. I don't know if that was deliberate or not, though. e: I love Andy. quote:Now, it's time to get out to the movies: Mad Max Fury Road just opened today here in Japan, and I need to run down to Shinjuku to wash off this Honobono stink with post-apocalypse car explosions RAWWWWRRRRR!!!
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Heh. Last week I took my regular tabletop group (that was and is quite eager to play Ryuutama soon) to see the new Mad Max, and the first thing I texted them later that evening was "Ryuutama: Fury Road". There was much  .
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As much as GMS would probably assume otherwise, I haven't been to his Far West site in forever. Of course, it's mostly been dead for a long time, but you never know. So I clicked on over, and while this past is a year old, I can't help but point it out:quote:I'm doing the final stages of the layout (which is the biggest pain in the rear end -- making sure everything fits within a prescribed page count, tracking down overlay and other pre-press errors, insuring that everything fits under the printers ink-coverage hard limit, etc. -- this is the small-detail high-workload part of the process that I seriously hate). Every single time I get a peek behind the curtain, I am appalled by the rank incompetence or, possibly, what amount to lies dressed up with jargon to trick the vast majority of people who don't know this poo poo. Skarka works with InDesign. He's been doing it, presumably, for the better part of a decade. Ink coverage limits are something you set in a document-wide menu option, not something you really work on. Are the numbers too high? Change them—go to whatever spec doc you have, for instance the free guidelines on DTRPG, and make them that number or lower. Or, I guess, he's been checking and setting values for individual pieces of art. Which, while hilariously dumb, I refuse to believe he's actually doing. Or he's talking about something that isn't actually ink coverage. That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Jun 20, 2015 |
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GMS posted:I participated last year, and I'll be doing it again this year. #RPGaDay
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lol if you think the biggest pain in the rear end during layout is the ''final stages''
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Evil Mastermind posted:Ryuutama is up on DriveThru, and if you're a backer you should have a download code in your email. $14 is super cheap so I just bought it. The pdf is really cute. 
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Unlike Far (And Away) West, NSKN's Mistfall's production has gone ahead of schedule! If nothing goes wrong Europe might see the game as early as July, with the rest of the world getting it on August. It funded in this year's April.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Ryuutama is up on DriveThru,and if you're a backer you should have a download code in your email. And bought!
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Here's one I find interesting: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spellforgegames/foe-hunters-a-cooperative-fantasy-deckbuilding-gam/description From reading the preview rules, it's essentially Sentinels of the Multiverse (a co-op superhero card game) with a fantasy theme and deckbuilding instead of entirely pre-built decks. I'm a fan of Sentinels, fantasy, and deckbuilding, so I'd like to see how this turns out.
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If you find any errors in Ryuutama you might want to pass them on to the guys behind it. The PDF up now is version 0.9, the "mostly complete" version. They estimate it'll be updated to the final version in about 10 days, and they want to fix any errors they've missed.
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Why is a Grandfather Clock an option in the list of items in Ryuutama?!  I really doubt it, but I can't help but feel its a reference to Oregon Trail. Especially since it costs exactly the same amount of money Players start with.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Why is a Grandfather Clock an option in the list of items in Ryuutama?! It absolutely has to be, and I love it.
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Sefer posted:Here's one I find interesting: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spellforgegames/foe-hunters-a-cooperative-fantasy-deckbuilding-gam/description The prebuilt decks are kind of the defining element of Sentinels, though. They're what allows the game to express a distinct personality for the various heroes (and villains and environments, for that matter, although those would generally be prebuilt anyway). Without that it's just another coop deckbuilder. Nothing wrong with that, but it's a different sort of thing.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Why is a Grandfather Clock an option in the list of items in Ryuutama?! It 100% is and I'm gonna demand my group buy it to start with. "We have little food, no weather gear, barely anything to save us if the wagons break...but check out our sweet clock, they're gonna be so jealous of us guys." Also from my quick look the Ryuutama pdf seems to be not needing anything changed. Kinda crazy to see this contrasted with GMS' stuff. Ryuutama had a ton of setbacks and updates that amounted to 'welp we had no idea how this would go, sorry guys' and...well here I am with a pdf and a neat upgraded book gonna be shipped to me as their 'yea our bad here' bonus. It's almost like small games can be made just fine despite many setbacks if the people in charge give two shits.
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Soo, was the Grandfather Clock added into the transition or was it in the original Japanese version? [edit]  Oh and now it drops a Catan Reference. 
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Tatum Girlparts posted:It 100% is and I'm gonna demand my group buy it to start with. There have been quite a few typoes and some layout errors that have been spotted and reported. Most of the spottable with a quick glance issues were fixed a long time ago. Really digging what I'm reading. Gonna have to put together a game to run, once my physical books get here (I couldn't decide which cover to get, so I got both, and having more than one'll help since it's unlikely that my group will purchase the book before at least a few sessions in).
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malkav11 posted:The prebuilt decks are kind of the defining element of Sentinels, though. They're what allows the game to express a distinct personality for the various heroes (and villains and environments, for that matter, although those would generally be prebuilt anyway). Without that it's just another coop deckbuilder. Nothing wrong with that, but it's a different sort of thing. Well, they do have 14-16 card starting decks of unique cards for each character, and cards you buy have an affinity to make them cheaper for certain characters, so there's still some of that. But yes, it does become different when you start letting everyone buy cards from the same supply. Other than buying cards, it has the same turn to turn mechanics as Sentinels, though.
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I never heard of Far West before popping into this thread a week or two ago, but at this point someone else can make a game using the same (or very similar) concept/story, right? Anyway, the Zombicide Black Plague campaign just released Tim the Enchanter as a stretch goal character.
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krushgroove posted:I never heard of Far West before popping into this thread a week or two ago, but at this point someone else can make a game using the same (or very similar) concept/story, right? Apparently Jadepunk is close enough for some people, and it's straight up Fate instead of whatever bizarre patchwork Skarka's built. Edit: Really, that and "Indians hardly show up in spaghetti westerns so I guess they don't belong in my game; this doesn't apply to the equally rare-in-genre black people, or the Chinese kung fu masters that are half the pitch of my game, because…" seem like pretty strong indications that just a little homebrew is automatically a step up. That Old Tree fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Jun 21, 2015 |
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Gravy Train Robber posted:
Don't know how insanely sycophantic their fans are but I would no doubt drop a 15 year friendship if they turned into a Chris Roberts star citizen crazy person.
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Chill la Chill posted:Don't know how insanely sycophantic their fans are but I would no doubt drop a 15 year friendship if they turned into a Chris Roberts star citizen crazy person. There are people still on Gareth's side despite everything he's said and done.
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To be completely fair, you've almost certainly experienced more entertainment and enjoyment spending your money on that site, than anyone who backed far west in 2011. Also you got what you paid for. You should keep saying you'll take the site down and post deadlines to do so for yourself. Update with a new deadline and an absurd or pathetic excuse every time. Cheap Shot fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Jun 21, 2015 |
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Plague of Hats posted:Apparently Jadepunk is close enough for some people, and it's straight up Fate instead of whatever bizarre patchwork Skarka's built.
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