KickStarter SKALD: Against the Black Priory - retro RPG inspired by Ultima - coming May 30th

[vitellus]

I think SKALD dev is an pretty cool guy. Eh, gets government money and doesn't release anything.

has it ascended to the holiest of holies, the realm of vaporware? for sure the dev can now just post old screenshots sloppily cropped and call it progress. others do it and the teeth are latched to the teat...

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Vaporware!?! Nonsense! There is a demo and that's more than Unknown Realm pugdog adventure will ever have.

 

[cyborgboy95]

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

So, I can make breakfast now? Bacon, eggs, toast, coffee, and maybe some OJ?

 

[Melan]

"You will bake ze bread and you will be ze happy." -- Richard Garriott (probably)

 

[Tweed]

This thing is never coming out.

 

[Luzur]

 

[WarHamster]

In before the announcement of a another slight delay: the release will be in 2024 - for realisies this time. Honest. Pinky promise.

 

[Fargus]

I made peace with the fact that any even remotely interesting upcoming game i learn about from the Codex ends up as abandonware or shit.

 

[ShaggyMoose]

This was close enough to finished I am sure it will turn up... Eventually.

 

[Sacibengala]

It was almost finished before getting a publisher. Now it's far from complete.

 

[cyborgboy95]

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

 

[Tyranicon]

I forgot Skald was made in Unity...

 

[Tweed]

and god forbid the game gets pirated

 

[Jaesun]

Switching engines while you have worked on a game for SO long is not in any way shape or form trivial. But as it stands now, If I were in such a position, I would start to immediately switch and get the fuck as far away from Unity. No matter how fucking soul crushing it would be to do that... It's abundantly clear the management of Unity is ran by complete imbeciles.

 

[Tweed]

Mid development engine switch is a kiss of death.

 

[Melan]

One weird trick to beating the Unity greedsters: never actually release your game.

 

[Sacibengala]

One weird trick to beating the Unity greedsters: never actually release your game.

He got this in spades, then.

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

How does unity track installations? Do all Unity based games now come with some form of DRM that calls home? Do I need to start sandboxing fucking game installations?

 

[kaisergeddon]

How does unity track installations? Do all Unity based games now come with some form of DRM that calls home? Do I need to start sandboxing fucking game installations?

I don't think even Unity knows. Turns out Unity was merged with an Israeli financial app company called IronSource late last year. This is what happens when you have rich idiots poking around in industries that are new to them and have no respect or understanding of how anything works. It's insane and unenforceable. The new suits at Unity discovered the mobile market has slop giants like Genshin Impact running on the hot software they just bought, and they're tossing all indie and smaller devs like SKALD under the bus to get at them and shake their pockets out while destroying their own product and reputation to do it.

Anyways, I think SKALD should be okay. I completely agree with the dev that Unity will roll this back, but also that everyone should get away from the engine because it's a sign of instability and ignorance with the corporate suite.

 

[vitellus]

the release will be in 2024 - for realisies this time. Honest. Pinky promise.

i can see it now:

so my kickstarter for the next phase of development is...

 

[Ysaye]

I forgot Skald was made in Unity...

Wouldn't it make more sense to port it to Godot?

 

[GentlemanCthulhu]

task modify skald +vaporware

 

[Jinn]

Skald dev is apparently a big fan of Oblivion.