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thelazyblank posted:This obvious joke does bring a real question: Did anyone else try the Transmedia Empire idea after GMS shot himself in the foot with an assault rifle for half a decade? 7th Sea, I guess?
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Jan 24, 2017 04:31
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I haven't been in here for a few months, but I saw this today and thought of this thread. I assume its still not out? 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I haven't been in here for a few months, but I saw this today and thought of this thread. https://twitter.com/gmskarka/status/823425276956868609 I honestly cannot imagine what the hell he's still working on, unless he's rewriting the whole game. Chapters 1 to 9 were done ages ago.
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Jan 24, 2017 04:48
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he said he would release what he had completed by the end of 2016 guess what happened?
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Red Metal posted:he said he would release what he had completed by the end of 2016 Not sure who the guy asking is, but he also called out the end-of-year promise: 
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Jan 24, 2017 05:06
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had other fires to put out besides this raging tire fire that's been burning for six years
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Jan 24, 2017 05:43
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Hauki posted:had other fires to put out besides this raging tire fire that's been burning for six years Hey, tire fires are hard to extinguish once they really get going. (I am not, in any way, supporting GMS, just poking fun at your analogy)
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Jan 24, 2017 05:45
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Evil Mastermind posted:I honestly cannot imagine what the hell he's still working on, unless he's rewriting the whole game. Chapters 1 to 9 were done ages ago.
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Jan 24, 2017 12:58
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thelazyblank posted:This obvious joke does bring a real question: Did anyone else try the Transmedia Empire idea after GMS shot himself in the foot with an assault rifle for half a decade? 7th Sea took a shot at it at $1.25M and there have been a few Kickstarters that tried to do it. I'm pretty sure someone tried to rip off Hearthstone that way but it's probably long since failed and I can't find it now.  I'm currently debating making the art book double as a splat for the tabletop game so I can put it on DriveThruRPG. We'll see if that works out I guess 
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Jan 24, 2017 13:19
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Ettin posted:7th Sea took a shot at it at $1.25M and there have been a few Kickstarters that tried to do it. I'm pretty sure someone tried to rip off Hearthstone that way but it's probably long since failed and I can't find it now. You seem like a cool skelly and were also a cool santa so I'm thinking about giving your anime a shot. Is it purely a visual novel or is there any interaction/branching plot planned? I don't really know much about these things, so I'm not sure what exactly that entails.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ou77KOJQAQ Haha I completely forgot about their doomed highborn manchild video game kickstarter. Guess it flopped?
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Cinnamon Bear posted:You seem like a cool skelly and were also a cool santa so I'm thinking about giving your anime a shot. Is it purely a visual novel or is there any interaction/branching plot planned? I don't really know much about these things, so I'm not sure what exactly that entails. There's gonna be a lot of interaction but I'm probably gonna avoid branching. I'm a little wary of it because it could easily turn into a ton of work, and I'd rather not ruin my ~transmedia empire~ on my first attempt!
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Jan 24, 2017 14:55
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Ettin posted:I'm currently debating making the art book double as a splat for the tabletop game so I can put it on DriveThruRPG. We'll see if that works out I guess This seems like a smart idea. Isn't this sort of what Eclipse Phase does with their commissioned art? You can buy the art as separate from the text pdf or something?
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Anyway. The Star on the Shore  Chaosium licenced Call of Cthulhu sandbox adventure in 1920s New England. Six days left Fully funded, many stretch goals unlocked. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/darkcultgames/the-star-on-the-shore-a-call-of-cthulhu-rpg-module?ref=nav_search No idea if it's good.
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Jan 25, 2017 04:55
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So related to those wooden GM screens I posted about the other day, Wyrmwood is doing their own wooden modular GM screens
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Helical Nightmares posted:This seems like a smart idea. Yeah, they sell 'hack packs' which contain high res art assets from the books so you can use them in your own CC works.
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Jan 25, 2017 04:56
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Evil Mastermind posted:So related to those wooden GM screens I posted about the other day, Wyrmwood is doing their own wooden modular GM screens This would be 100% improved if they replaced that rotating middle panel with velvet curtains you can pull back to present hand puppet shows to the players
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Jan 25, 2017 05:27
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Jan 25, 2017 06:43
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Evil Mastermind posted:So related to those wooden GM screens I posted about the other day, Wyrmwood is doing their own wooden modular GM screens That's a lot better looking than the other one.
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Jan 25, 2017 07:47
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What's funnier than overly elaborate gaming paraphernalia? Far West!Kickstarter, almost a full month of silence after the for-reals totally the end previous deadline posted:I have purposefully not been checking the comments page -- assuming (apparently incorrectly) that if somebody had a serious problem they needed addressed, they'd contact me via the email that I've provided regularly for that purpose. Twitter posted:TFW You're one guy working to finish a project, and have to take time to fill out paperwork to respond to a complaint filed b/c its late. a little later in that Twitter thread posted:That's a fair criticism. I said I was going to do it, and I didn't. That last is all the response he's got to "You take umbrage at being called a liar and people pursuing what meager legal action is available to them, but you swore you'd release whatever you have end of 2016." Stunning. Will Far West be released? Find out in the exciting next episode: Another Blown Deadline.
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Jan 25, 2017 08:16
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Ettin posted:I'm pretty sure someone tried to rip off Hearthstone that way but it's probably long since failed and I can't find it now. This guy.
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Jan 25, 2017 15:39
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That Old Tree posted:Will Far West be released? Find out in the exciting next episode: Another Blown Deadline. e: why is this not a smiley?
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I know I say this drat near every time, but GMS released the first eight or nine chapters to backers ages ago. The crunch was done. Yeah, it was lovely d20-with-aspects but they were done! And the setting was written by someone else so presumably that was done too. He said that he was putting together the GMing chapter like two years ago and that was all that was done, but at this point he has to be rewriting the whole drat thing.
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Jan 25, 2017 16:47
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Well, this is what happens when you make multiple broken promises, ignore customer complaints, insult people who have given you money, fail to issue refunds, and generally act like an entitled manchild instead of a professional.
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Jan 25, 2017 16:48
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Evil Mastermind posted:I know I say this drat near every time, but GMS released the first eight or nine chapters to backers ages ago. The crunch was done. Yeah, it was lovely d20-with-aspects but they were done! And the setting was written by someone else so presumably that was done too. Seriously? If he's that close to done then this makes no sense. It was one thing to believe "working on the last chapters" was bullshit and he had something half finished and nowhere near releasable.
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Jan 25, 2017 16:57
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Maxwell Lord posted:Seriously? If he's that close to done then this makes no sense. It was one thing to believe "working on the last chapters" was bullshit and he had something half finished and nowhere near releasable. Yup. I actually read them myself. I remember discussing it in IRC as I was reading it. I don't have the files now (they're probably on my old tower) but they do exist.
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Jan 25, 2017 17:01
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That Old Tree posted:That last is all the response he's got to "You take umbrage at being called a liar and people pursuing what meager legal action is available to them, but you swore you'd release whatever you have end of 2016." Stunning. Maybe if he spent less time making anti-Trump posts on Facebook and more time working, it would be done? Says the guy blowing off writing to make anti-Trump posts on Facebook.
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Evil Mastermind posted:So related to those wooden GM screens I posted about the other day, Wyrmwood is doing their own wooden modular GM screens God drat but Wyrmwood makes some really good-looking wooden boxes. I got one of their dice boxes as a gift and I just love the look. $100 is pretty steep for a screen but I really love their initiative tracker idea.
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Jan 25, 2017 18:04
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So Twilight of the Gods is entering its final day. Any thoughts on it?
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Maxwell Lord posted:Seriously? If he's that close to done then this makes no sense. It was one thing to believe "working on the last chapters" was bullshit and he had something half finished and nowhere near releasable. It makes sense if he's basically trapped himself in a spiral of "it has to be X better to prove it was worth being Y months/years late" where upping X naturally leads to more Y, which requires more X, and on to infinity we go. Some of the discussion in the exalted thread has periodically speculated whether they're going down the same rabbit hole.
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Desiden posted:It makes sense if he's basically trapped himself in a spiral of "it has to be X better to prove it was worth being Y months/years late" where upping X naturally leads to more Y, which requires more X, and on to infinity we go. I honestly can't imagine anything he could do or put out that would make up for his behavior throughout this whole mess.
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Yeah, when that starts to happen you have to realize that's toxic thought, because we have examples of why that doesn't work (see DNF) and once you get into that spiral it's better to just release what you had when you were originally finished, apologize, and take your lumps.
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Desiden posted:It makes sense if he's basically trapped himself in a spiral of "it has to be X better to prove it was worth being Y months/years late" where upping X naturally leads to more Y, which requires more X, and on to infinity we go. A couple of years ago (jfc) he was posting about nearly being done, putting up a preorder page on RPGNow. Up to right before he missed that particular launch date, he was talking about simultaneously laying out and writing the same chapter, creating art assets as he went, and there was still an entire chapter that was not even laid out, possibly not even finished writing. Also, all the way back at the beginning, his original estimated delivery was some handful of months after the Kickstarter would finish. Some chapters weren't even finished being drafted at that point, and obviously a lot of the art wasn't either. He gave himself barely enough time to maybe meet his original deadline if everything went absolutely perfect. He has always been (at best) delusional about Far West. All the more baffling considering he'd been writing and laying out books for some time before.
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Like I've said before, I spent most of the Chuubo production process being sure we'd be done in a month or so, and being sure of this for over a year. GMS is only really different in that he doesn't seem to be aware of the joke and keeps making confident pronouncements which then turn out to be wrong. (Also he threatens to sue random fields in Iceland, which I guess is a fairly major difference.)
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Jan 25, 2017 22:44
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That portapotty I posted will probably have more substance to it than this missing Far West chapter when it finally gets published. 
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Rand Brittain posted:Like I've said before, I spent most of the Chuubo production process being sure we'd be done in a month or so, and being sure of this for over a year. I think the principle difference is that he's an rear end in a top hat about it. Even after all these years and deadlines, he'd probably still have a much more robust number of faithful in his comment sections if he didn't harass patches of Iceland and act like "Where's the product I paid for? You're really late." was "an axe to grind." Sure, his was one of the first big RPG Kickstarters, but there are others nearly as hosed up for whatever reason that draw a lot less fire.
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That Old Tree posted:I think the principle difference is that he's an rear end in a top hat about it. Even after all these years and deadlines, he'd probably still have a much more robust number of faithful in his comment sections if he didn't harass patches of Iceland and act like "Where's the product I paid for? You're really late." was "an axe to grind." Sure, his was one of the first big RPG Kickstarters, but there are others nearly as hosed up for whatever reason that draw a lot less fire. They draw less fire because you can't watch their creators just clearly blow off responsibilities and then, when called on it, they don't say sorry just needed some me time and go back to work (the correct response) instead they try to sue barns in Iceland, insult you, and generally act like they have no obligation to you even though you paid them.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Of course, if that's the case (wouldn't surprise me) then it completely ignores the idea that there's really no way to make a game that makes up for the years of excuses, lies, missed dates, blame shifting, and insults. Oh yeah, totally. I mean, at this point even if he somehow managed to replace all his bad photoshop bruce lee art with actual decent stuff, have his writing and system be really solid, and deliver on the hardbacks, it still would be a laughingstock. There's just too many good kickstarters delivering at or before deadlines (Godbound and Fragged Empire for example) and plenty of mediocre ones that still manage an okay book that's "only" late by a year or two. Also, what's the iceland thing? I must have missed that.
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