Vapourware Realms Beyond: Ashes of the Fallen - Chaos Chronicles reborn and dead again

[BEvers]

Then I check Guido Henkel's twitter and he's only talking about Manafort and Cohen. He's the creative director. If he's not at Gamescom, I want to hear more about the game from him, not about impeachment and neverTrump.

 

[Tigranes]

You have too much time on your hands, go do something else.

 

[BEvers]

Sorry. I hope we get more info about the game. Everyone else has a trailer and an interview out, but maybe tomorrow.

 

[Jenkem]

fucking pagans

DEUS VULT!

 

[BEvers]

A bit more from the booth.

But why on earth am I so invested in a game? What does this even have to do with history, paganism or archaeology? Well! The cultures you encounter in this game are inspired by real historical cultures and therefore you'll surely have some cool stuff to discover once it's done! My good friend Frank even studied the old Babylonian language and contributes heavily with his knowledge as a lead writer. And I, as I speak german, english, french and swedish am glad to help aswell as with historical and cultural aspects of our game that's why! Nerdity knows no boundaries. We help eachother no matter which field we originate from!

She is a developer, not just "booth babe".

 

[ItsChon]

Fair enough than, though now I'm curious as to what Frank looks like. My guess is something like...

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this?

 

[ArchAngel]

Shouldn't all our Deus Vult members be up in arms by now because of this #paganism #heathen #witchcraft contributor to the game? :D

 

[Background Character]

Holy crackers, this game looks GOOD

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Fair enough than, though now I'm curious as to what Frank looks like. My guess is something like...

Spoiler

this?

Nah, JarlFrank is shorter.

 

[fantadomat]

Fair enough than, though now I'm curious as to what Frank looks like. My guess is something like...

Spoiler

this?

Nah, JarlFrank is shorter.

Yup,he is more like this:

 

[BEvers]

A better photo of the booth, you can see gold boxes and the Ultima ankh in the background.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Cool booth, totally worth setting up just so everybody can walk past it and go straight to whatever the next popamole is.

 

[Strange Fellow]

Can Realms Beyond live up to the standard set by that time-honoured masterpiece, Neverwinter Nights? Only time will tell.

 

[fantadomat]

Can Realms Beyond live up to the standard set by that time-honoured masterpiece,Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire? Only time will tell.

Fix it for you.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Can Realms Beyond live up to the standard set by that time-honoured masterpiece,Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness? Only time will tell.

Fix it for you.

 

[Reinhardt]

Can Realms Beyond live up to the standard set by that time-honoured masterpiece,Realms of Arkania HD? Only time will tell.

Fix it for you.

i am disappoint

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Can Realms Beyond live up to the standard set by that time-honoured masterpiece,Realms of Arkania HD? Only time will tell.

Fix it for you.

i am disappoint

When other people are able to invoke the glory of Realms of Arkania HD, my work is done.

 

[AbounI]

A bit more from the booth.

But why on earth am I so invested in a game? What does this even have to do with history, paganism or archaeology? Well! The cultures you encounter in this game are inspired by real historical cultures and therefore you'll surely have some cool stuff to discover once it's done! My good friend Frank even studied the old Babylonian language and contributes heavily with his knowledge as a lead writer. And I, as I speak german, english, french and swedish am glad to help aswell as with historical and cultural aspects of our game that's why! Nerdity knows no boundaries. We help eachother no matter which field we originate from!

She is a developer, not just "booth babe".

Holly crap, what a pleasant and surprising news. In the same time, such a person could be so precious for some external localizations. As I've already told Peter I was interested to translate their game in French (once AoD translation will be finished), she could be of service to help us.

 

[BEvers]

Eye at RPGWatch photographed the Realms Beyond team, but he didn't talk to them. Only a picture again

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Their booth looks cool tbh

 

[BEvers]

The staff do not look too busy to do some tweets or forum posts

 

[ArchAngel]

Eye at RPGWatch photographed the Realms Beyond team, but he didn't talk to them. Only a picture again

I guess he was intimidated by the pagan witch in the front row. You can already see her evil eye casting curses at him.
Next time JarlFrank should hire some nazibabe instead.

 

[JarlFrank]

Hey guys, what's going on in this thread?

 

[JarlFrank]

P.S. don't expect me to post too much until GC is over. Talking to hundreds of visitors each day is exhausting after some time. My vocal cords feel like they've been scraped with a cheese grater due to non-stop talking wth a slightly raised voice because it's not exactly quiet at Gamescom.

Talk to a group of 3 guys interested in our game, explain everything to them. Boom, now two girls appear. Explain everything to them. Boom, another dude. And so on. At some points today (first public day) all four of us were talking to people simultaneously, during the busiest hours we had trouble receving every visitor to our booth even though we're four people. It's crazy. I guess it's a combination of having a cool-looking booth, a good-looking game, and being very forthcoming towards everyone who looks like he or she is interested in our game (hand them a flyer, ask them if they wanna know more, answer all the questions they have about the game, boom suddenly two more people are standing in line and listening in).

I'll openly admit that the reception far exceeds our expectations. Lots of people are interested in the game, and if not the game then the cool booth we've built (and then we quickly get them interested in the game, too).

Plenty of people interested in RPGs talk to us for a long time, sharing gaming experiences from the 90s, or talking about their pen and paper adventures, or even just starting to go for small talk after a while. Most of the people we hand a flyer to stay to listen to us explain the game's mechanics and design principles. Plenty take photos of our booth (and plenty want to take photos of Alexis, who's always happy to strike an epic pose for a photo).
And when a little girls runs up to our booth and wants to touch all the cool items we have on our shelf it's just cute :D

So yeah. Gamescom is going pretty well.
My throat still hurts from talking all the time.
I just made myself some tea with honey.
And in less than 8 hours, it's back to Gamescom. From the place I'm staying at, it's about 20 minutes to Kölnmesse, the area GC is at. If I wanna get breakfast and at least have a quick shower, I doubt I'm going to catch more than 4 or 5 hours of sleep.
Doesn't matter. Gotta keep spreading the word.

Jarl out

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Talk to a group of 3 guys interested in our game, explain everything to them. Boom, now two girls appear. Explain everything to them. Boom, another dude. And so on. At some points today (first public day) all four of us were talking to people simultaneously, during the busiest hours we had trouble receving every visitor to our booth even though we're four people. It's crazy. I guess it's a combination of having a cool-looking booth, a good-looking game, and being very forthcoming towards everyone who looks like he or she is interested in our game (hand them a flyer, ask them if they wanna know more, answer all the questions they have about the game, boom suddenly two more people are standing in line and listening in).

I'll openly admit that the reception far exceeds our expectations. Lots of people are interested in the game, and if not the game then the cool booth we've built (and then we quickly get them interested in the game, too).

That's great! Good luck!