Game News Jagged Alliance: Flashback Kickstarter confirmed

Full Control owns the game they make. They own the assets they create and code and stuff.

 

So I reckon the strategic layer will be totally revamped.
Researching weapons and upgrades? Jesus fuck, is it that hard to make a 1:1 copy of the gameplay features these days?

 

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CrashOberbreit since they refuse bitComposer's funding and are going kickstarter, do you have any idea of the scope of their budget? 350k is horribly low for a new JA, so they definetly have private investors as well, right?

 

Well. The thing that they ask for so "little" is that they already have the base technology available. So far they built a bigger game each time, using their old tech and upgrading it (Space Hulk for example is based on Frontline Tactics but with lots more stuff in there. JA then will prbly based on the tech of Space Hulk and so on). However, on the KS page they also make clear that 350k is for the base game and that via more of course more features will be included.

 

It should have make the news of the Codex and even have a thread in the CRPG forum
Ok JA is way more about strategy than rpg but still.
I check the Codex quite often but only learned about this kicstarter right now (i don't check this part of the Codex).
Quite shocked about that, JA 2 was in the top 15 cRPG Codex list after all.
Also research/manufacturing for a JA games seems wrong to me.

 

I don't think the scope of this game in particular is too big, especially with CashOberbreit mentioning JA 3 potentially in the works if this company does a good job with the franchise. My best guess is that bitcomposer wants to test the waters with how popular the franchise still is and how good a job that indie company can pull with more limited crowd funding.

Though tbh 350k in terms of funding, especially if it has depth both to tactical battles and dialogue, sounds like a few missions' worth of game, so i could be wrong.

 

Humm.... I got nothing against a short ~$15-20 game. Seems a very logical approach, hope they get it right.

 

Uhm. We tested the franchise before actually. So we pretty much know what to expect if we go for a full JA3. But currently we are full with other projects, JA3 somewhere on the horizon right now. It will come, some day. But first of all this needs quite some cash, plus some experienced people on our side - but those people, including me, are quite busy with other things (=projects). Of course experiences people on dev-side as well.

Ah well, if someone from the codex-staff wants to get the FC guys for an interview, just write me a pm and I'll hand out the email-address, as promised before. Gotta work. Actually came to the codex today to post in the Conquistador thread, not to hang out here all day

and now? So much work on my desk -.-

 

So this is more like JA: Deadly Games than JA1 or JA2? Since there's a base, and you select missions. I guess that's an easier game to make, but meh.

From the kickstarter comments:

Ivan is a bad ass Russian and Fidel's busy, that's all the story I need. I don't know which game these guys played but it sure as hell wasn't Jagged Alliance.

Summing up, this will be an on-rails variant of JA, similar to Deadly Games but likely without the random aspects (in favor of STORY), and a small number of mercenaries due to budget constraints. But don't worry, these guys helped make CRYSIS.

Also, a few other gems from their kickstarter comment page:

Just like in JA2!

The humor is supposed to go into the description, not the name! (Oh who am I kidding, there'll be no text descriptions.)

 

They have. http://www.jaggedallianceflashback.com/forums/

 

Yea it's all we need to know about their backstory, simple but very effective.
No metaphysical or complicated shit.
Also Razor just like his job

 

For now the Kickstarter seems very slow to me, if doesn't get at least 100K$ in the first four or five days is game over.

 

This. We all know how the image of our favorite sith benefited from extra backstory.

 

You need to be talented to make a good game, especially a good JA game. Shitcomposter contracted another shitty indies with crap track record.

 

Too bad that when this goes down in flames, BitComposer will think it's because the name is toxic and not because of incompetence. Space Hulk is extremely simple compared to Jagged Alliance, so Full Control doesn't get any benefit of doubt due to that and their KS isn't nowhere near convincing enough. Fictional, humorous gun names? In a series infamous for its gunporn? Bitch, please.

 

To be fair to use the real names will require to pay licensing fees.

 

I heard the "M" word. Interest reset back to 0.

 

http://www.fullcontrol.dk/games.html

Soccer daddies. Hmm... Some codexers are known as sugar daddies, but I haven't heard any JA fan calling himself a soccer dad.

 

They are total tards, ahem, they are not learning animals,, afetr the 'turn based doesn't sell' phase now we have the mobile hardcore playing phase, doomed to fail.

 

"Soccer dads" eh? You mean the poor sobs that spend most of their time working or tanding their spawn, leaving them with little time to play a fairly complex strategy game?