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KickStarter Mechajammer (formerly Copper Dreams) - cyberpunk RPG from Whalenought Studios

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My goodness, I totally forgot about this one! It seems like forever since there was movement towards release on this one.
 
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ArchAngel said:
gaussgunner said:
Don't they live in a wu flu hot zone?
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They are both young, they got nothing to worry about.
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geno said:
ArchAngel said:
gaussgunner said:
Don't they live in a wu flu hot zone?
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They are both young, they got nothing to worry about.
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I know that's an old photo but thoughts and prayers to Joe and Hannah and the Whalenought nonetheless.



https://www.indiegraze.com/2017/09/25/interview-copper-dreams-hannah-williams/

HW: Time! The clock is always racing against us. We’re only two people on the development side of things. We obviously don’t know everything and want to make sure we’re using best practices, so R&D is necessary, but tough to budget for when deadlines are looming. Living and working together at home and not having ‘weekends’ really makes the development process more of a lifestyle than just a job, sometimes we go outside and realize it’s been three days since we left the house. We’ve found that it’s important to take time off once in a while, even though it’s hard to justify with a paycheck still far away, but otherwise our brains get mushy and we don’t work efficiently. So we go for a hike on one of the nearby mountains or make some stabs at gardening.

We see plenty of crowdfunded games not allocate those funds well and have to cut or just stop development. It’s heartbreaking to read their final posts. There’s a lot of pressure there, and you feel like it could be you if you’re not careful. You adapt though, and the excitement of being able to work together all day every day overcomes the stress of financial insecurity.

Fortunately, working side by side all day does make workflow extremely flexible. We’re pretty familiar with each other, of course, so we don’t have to ask stupid questions and can understand how long things take or what would be best for certain pipelines. If Joe needs a new tool for exporting maps he’d want to do immediately, I take a few minutes whipping that up. That stuff saves hours. Or when I am about to start development on a new system or mechanic, Joe can quickly shift art gears toward that to get it up and running.

Working on new systems and mechanics together is a real treat, it’s a realtime hybrid of art and programming all at once and creating some fun stuff on screen. Plus, working without any office politics or dealing with employees is a treasure in and of itself. I think we’re slowly becoming unemployable as we’ve accustomed to this the past 5 years. We have some guys helping with the OST and voice work for Copper Dreams that worked on Serpent, and they know us well and are just terrific to work with. We also have some internal testers we’ve chatted with about a lot of the ideas that have been fleshed out into the final game for the ruleset and mechanics, and they’ve been very helpful, and very patient, as we take quarter-years to complete some overhauls.
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Indeed, I personally miss them changing the artstyle in the last minute and churn out 12378217312732138163786 new, different presentation in a span of 6 months worth of updates.
 

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Posted on Kickstarter, 3 days ago.

Hey Guy, Petrell — We've been bunkering down and finishing up, sorry about the lack of updates until now. The beta will be mailed out this Saturday, with updates following next week. We mentioned this earlier but Hannah and I weren't completely happy with some of the visuals and gameplay from what we've release before, and we strive to be 100% happy with things. We've just recently caught up with necessary changes though, and injected a lot more clarity, grunge and Escape from New York into the visuals; it looks a lot more similar to what you originally backed but with the inclusion of all the sweet tech we've built since.
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