KickStarter BLACKROOM, an oldschool FPS from John Romero and Adrian Carmack - Kickstarter cancelled!

[Zarniwoop]

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John Romero will personally become your bitch for a whole day. He will travel to your house and suck it down.
You will have to cover his travel expenses, but Romero will bring his own food and clothes (but he will wear anything you give him).
Please note that Romero will not be obligated to do anything that is considered illegal (but may choose to do so).


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Same as the above, but for a whole week!
Please note that depending of the level of campaign's success, Romero might not be able to provide food for himself for the whole week, in which case you will have to feed him at least once a day.

I don't know who you are, lurker, but this post is as good as Daikatana was bad

 

[Makabb]

 

[:Flash:]

I've checked and yeah, It used to be under a different license that forbids commercial use. But now it's all available with GPL.

GPL does forbid commercial use.

It doesn't.

OK, let me rephrase: GPL does forbid what 95% of companies would require for commercial use. Whether Romero would make an exception, I don't know.

Men all GPL requires is that source code is distributed with binaries and that code that extends GPL'd code must use the same license.

This of course is difficult for utility software since you can just get the source code and compile it yourself, and anyone can distribute the binaries. But video games are more than code. There's all the game data too.

So GPL is actually great for games since it's perfectly viable to sell copies (Can't play the game with just code), and nobody can be a dick with the code, since if they make modifications they have to share with everyone (Unless they pay the license holder to get it under a different license of course).

- You cannot implement copy protection.
- Everyone can sell your game, as long as the assets are replaced.
- Everyone can sell expansion packs / DLC to your game, because buyers of expansion packs already have the original assets.
Those alone are deal breakers for most gaming companies.

 

[Jaklon]

GPL is shit anyway, but you don't have to use gpl.

 

[Excidium II]

Those alone are deal breakers for most gaming companies.

That's why everything is shit. Videogames would have been much better in a world where people in charge of game companies aren't so stupid.

GPL is shit anyway, but you don't have to use gpl.

It's a mess but name a better license.

 

[Astral Rag]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/167185-Is-HOXAR-Inc-the-New-John-Romero-PC-Game

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

Look at you, HOXAR. A pathetic creature of meat and bone.

 

[Taluntain]

HOAX R US

 

[thesoup]

Rooting for Romero. Time to redeem himself. The past 16 years were enough ridicule for one man.

Good video:

 

[sexbad?]

There's also this series of videos produced by Double Fraud. It features him chatting about the design of E1

 

[Kem0sabe]

That pic is awesome, bestest times for video games.

 

[J1M]

A Romero FPS? Why would someone want to play an FPS on their phone inside the facebook app?

 

[GrainWetski]

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

Kickstarter or Figstarter?

 

[Lyric Suite]

Moar like Fagstarter amrite?

 

[Barbarian]

Rooting for Romero. Time to redeem himself. [/MEDIA]

Don't forget the poor guy also married that melonheaded tranny monster "Brenda". Whatever happened to his previous underaged eastern-european sex slave anyway?

 

[Moink]

Rooting for Romero. Time to redeem himself. [/MEDIA]

Don't forget the poor guy also married that melonheaded tranny monster "Brenda". Whatever happened to his previous underaged eastern-european sex slave anyway?

How do you think he got the funding to make the game?

 

[Kron]

Holy shit Adrian Carmack has returned from the grave! As far as I know this guy disappeared from the face of the earth after he left ID.
Seeing his face again - now older - makes me sad in a bittersweet melancholic way.

This game is bound to be a disappointment; I just can't get hyped anymore, even if I do hope the best for both Romero and Carmack (unlike with some other old fart devs).
Still, gotta respect Adrian's artwork for Doom, that stuff is classic. Really hope his art hasn't grown bland and flaccid.

 

[Jaesun]

Well, this is certainly interesting....

 

[Cyberarmy]

Them jean shorts.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Well shit, if only Tom Hall would join up I could get interested. Right now I just feel pity for another old-fag effort trying to re-live the good ol' times.

 

[Venser]

Adrian Carmack on board? Shit just got real. I'm a cynical motherfucker and I always expect shit but I'm gonna make an exception and allow myself to be hyped for once.

 

[United Nations]

John Romero is a pimp.

He was tapping that Stevie Case.

 

[United Nations]

He should go back to hitting that Playboy ass.

 

[toro]