KickStarter 5 Year Followup On The Currie / Barkmore Enigma

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

In the 1990's, Ian Currie decided to put a ridiculous looking character into Jagged Alliance as a thinly veiled reference to Cleve Blakemore.

CALVIN BARKMORE, 340 pounds of lard, Mine Foreman and balding curmudgeon

How accurate was his prediction and was it based on his own uncanny vision of his own descent into madness as a professional vagrant + sandwich board marcher?

Ian Currie, 60 years old (?), 96 pounds wet, homeless drifter and frequently seen with squeegee at intersections & a pronounced comb-over

Cleve Blakemore, 59 years old, 280 pounds of muscle, Confirmed Steroid-Free Superhuman who can bend steel in his bare hands and outrun a speeding locomotive, heat vision trainee, frequently mistaken for 12 year old boy
(I don't think all those vitamins ran out in my urine like they always warned me would happen)

 

[Vlajdermen]

Anonymous poll. God damn it, Cleve.

 

[Hellraiser]

Ian looks like he has a late stage terminal soyface.

 

[Dadd]

Very nice. Let's see Ian Curry's biceps.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Calvin looks like the dude in the homeless center in Veneta. This Ian dude seriously have issues with you? Wth? There a list of games where the devs wanted to mock others? I can think of Scorpia in MM3 only atm. Hmmm.... put a huge ass beard on calvin, and some of my scraggly hobo clothes, a spear in one hand and a bayonette (knife not the entire rifle with the bayonette) and it might sorta resemble me. Lil fat in the face though with a terrible retardo exptession. Eh wth. Close enough.

 

[Crispy]

I wonder how Brenda's doing.

 

[Roguey]

I wonder how Brenda's doing.

 

[Crispy]

Is that an award behind her? "CG"? That's not Computer Gaming World, is it?

 

[Humbaba]

We don't care.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Very nice. Let's see Ian Curry's biceps.

Here's a shot of Ian at 27 after an intense six week gainer cycle ... this would prove to be his peak, all downhill since then.

 

[Roguey]

Is that an award behind her? "CG"? That's not Computer Gaming World, is it?

I suppose it could be any one of these

• 2017 – Brenda Romero – Development Legend, Develop Conference
• 2017 – Brenda Romero – BAFTA Special Award

Personal:

• 2015 – Brenda Romero – GDC Choice Award, Ambassador Award
• 2014 – Brenda Romero – Fulbright Scholar / Ireland (6-week commission to study Irish game industry)
• 2014 – Brenda Romero – Business Insider, "The 100 Most Influential Tech Women on Twitter" (May)
• 2013 – Brenda Romero – Top 10 Game Developers of 2013, Gamasutra
• 2013 – Lifetime Achievement Award, Game Developers Conference, Women in Gaming
• 2013 – Lifetime Achievement Award, Nominee, Game Developers Conference, Woman in Gaming
• 2013 – Forbes “12 Women in Gaming to Watch”
• 2010 – Woman of the Year, Charisma+2 Magazine
• 2010 – Microsoft 2010 Women in Games, Game Design Award, Nominee
• 2009 – Train, Vanguard Award, IndieCade
• 2009 – Train, IndieCade Finalist
• 2008 – Women in Games: The Gamasutra 20, Recognized as one of the top 20 women in games
• 2007 – Next Generation, one of only six “outstanding female game developers”
• 2006 – Next Generation, “100 Most Influential Women in the Game Industry”
• 2006 – New Radical, Radical Game Designer, Nerve Magazine, “The 50 artists, actors, authors, activists and icons who are making the world a more stimulating place”
• 2005 – GamerGod.com, Top 10 Most Interesting People of 2005, #3
• 2005 – Guardian Unlimited, Top 10 Most Interesting People of 2005, #5

When you're a loudmouthed woman they just hand out the awards like candy.

 

[Grauken]

When you're a loudmouthed woman they just hand out the awards like candy.

She looks like she ate all the candy already

 

[The_Mask]

I wonder how Brenda's doing.

She released Empire of Sin 2 years ago, and the game bombed so fucking hard, she didn't bother to release the DLCs she promised, nor the oh-so-expansive and glorious modding tools.

Not that I care much about her "career", but I do enjoy that prohibition era style, and I was looking forward to her turn-based sandbox. But instead I got an overpriced, janky mess, with no mods to make it better.
And it's funny, because it seems Empire of Sin garnered the attention of a lot of based brothers out there, because the Steam product page for it is chalk full of angry people pointing out the mess she made.

So, no... I don't think she's doing particularly well.

 

[Viata]

When you're a loudmouthed woman they just hand out the awards like candy.

She looks like she ate all the candy already

That is why there is only one award behind her.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Lol all of those awards are for having a vagina.

 

[puur prutswerk]

frequently mistaken for 12 year old boy

Go clean your room.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

I wonder how Brenda's doing.

She has bazoonkas to match Cleveland Mark Blakemore biceps

 

[Fargus]

Didn't know that Cleve is such a chad. I only remember some old photo of him in white shirt with belt bag.

 

[Haba]

Why don't you post a new photo though? That one is like 10 years old by now.

 

[HeroMarine]

Why don't you post a new photo though? That one is like 10 years old by now.

He looks better than you ever will, faggot.

 

[Kedar]

This thread is Codex at its best, by which I mean its worst <3

 

[vota DC]

No Jagged Alliance 3 means Ian Currie was eaten alive by Dhalsim. Never trust a vegetarian, he will be Hitler or a cannibal.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

No Jagged Alliance 3 means Ian Currie was eaten alive by Dhalsim. Never trust a vegetarian, he will be Hitler or a cannibal.

Is Ian a vegetarian? That explains so much.

 

[Humbaba]

You're a fat retard who took 20 years to rip off Wizardry 7 and who holds a grudge just as long against a guy who never thinks about you at all.

 

[Alienman]

You should offer your help to Ian make Jagged Alliance 3