Codex Interview with Afterfall lead designer

Wow, nice that my interview attracted so many of you devs. You should definitely stay, we might be a bit rough sometimes [as Elwro said, don't click the links ], but we can be a good source of inspiration and most here seem to be pretty interested in your game, too.

 

You only get to distribute over Steam for free IF you use Valve's engine.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=130

 

Not surprising. I don't know a single person that has even heard of the game... Well, except for my PnP group, of course, but those heard of it through me.

 

Well, only one friend and I played the game (in my circle of friends.) And not wanting to derail the thread but we both didn't stop because of the atrocious combat/gameplay or the completely messed up balancing or any of the various other enervating issues but because of gamebreaking bugs. Well, I'm actually not sure if it was a bug with me but I couldn't continue and at that point I didn't want to either.
I never understood what so many codexers see in that game.
But this is about Afterfall which will be extremely complex but completely bug-free with enticing gameplay, eh?

 

A great setting and pretty much the greatest example of choices and consequences in an RPG EVAR. It also happens to be my favorite RPG.

On topic:
The game looks promising. Hopefully these guys can deliver.

 

Good to hear that!

 

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the interview and infos on their site concerning gameplay sound really good, but i ve heard the same stuff many, many times before. except that in terms of hype-BS... they already match or even beat bethesda and carsten strehse....

what lowered my interest drastically was the godawful writing, story and world-descriptions on the site. maybe translations are to blame, i dunno but i felt like reading a 13 year old thinking up a new PnP campaign when browsing through that part of the english site.

but who knows, good luck to them anyways.... its not like F3 will have better story/world/writing either ^^

 

A decent interview, the very fact they are ambitious to create something memorable and seem to understand the basic principles of role-playing games is a good sign.

All that remains is to wish them luck. Hopefully, Afterfall won't turn into vaporware.

 

fixed.

 

As rico pointed out, one of the [few] things that worries me somewhat is the writing, mostly on the website. Hopefully they'll take some greater care with the in-game writing, or at least amass the funds for a good translation.

 

I can promise you guys that this game will be shipped...but this will take much of our time

Thanks for all comments. Cheers.

 

Dude, it better be good cause you got my hopes up like a teenage boy's erection.