Game News Chris Avellone and Project Eternity at Rezzed 2013

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Tags: Chris Avellone; Kickstarter; Obsidian Entertainment; Project Eternity

Today is the first day of 2013's Rezzed, the plucky UK PC and indie gaming convention organized by RockPaperShotgun and Eurogamer. This year, Chris Avellone and Project Eternity are making an appearance. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, you can watch the Project Eternity presentation live when it begins, at 14:55 GMT.

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While you're waiting for it to start, you might want to watch this panel from earlier today, in which MCA and several other developers discussed Kickstarter and other new PC gaming business models.

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You can watch all of Rezzed's shows for today at Eurogamer's YouTube channel, with more coming tomorrow.

Update: Aaand it's over. Due to technical issues, the presentation didn't actually start until around the 31 minute mark, so there was no time for a Q&A session. Chris did however find the time to show a bunch of new screenshots, concept art and even some design documents from Wasteland 2 (because Feargus won't let him show any Eternity docs). He also ran some gameplay footage, but it was just the prototype demo that we've already seen.

 

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ITZ ON!

...and the auditorium is empty

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Images of New Stuff from Presentation

World Map:

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Wilderness Area:

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Wilderness Area Concept Art:

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Defiance Bay:

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Vertical Slice Dungeon (Editor):

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Vertical Slice Dungeon:

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Store:

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Animat Concept Art:

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Animat Factory:

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WIP User Interface:

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Wasteland 2 Design Docs:

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[Diablo169]

My god I hope more people then that come in.

 

[hiver]

they really had to sit those two guys next to chris eh?

 

[Duraframe300]

Stream is back. More people in.

 

[Jedi Exile]

Lol that fat guy in front of the camera is funny. And where is a cute girl with dark hair that sat next to him? Dammit, she left...

Still waiting for the presentation to start... Hey, its Chris! ITZ STARTED!!!

 

[Infinitron]

For fuck's sake!

It's finally on. Newcomers, skip to 31:00

 

[Diablo169]

They only gave him 20 minutes to talk. Bastards

 

[Gozma]

they really had to sit those two guys next to chris eh?

Yeah that was cruel. All in t-shirts too. At least put the big nordics that don't work out around him

shit still aint started, I blame the publishers edit - then it did

 

[Tigranes]

Chris has the best powerpoint.

 

[Infinitron]

Suck it consoles!

 

[Zed]

shit buffers slower than the development of africa.
I'll just watch this once it's over...

 

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shit buffers slower than the development of africa.
I'll just watch this once it's over...

Works okay here. Are you on HD quality?

 

[Deleted member 7219]

 

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Wasteland 2 design docs!

 

[mrlutze]

Is he going to show gameplay (hopefully without any wolves)?

Screen of city (shitty quality because the stream is crap):

Screenshot from vertical slice dungeon.

Another dungeon concept - http://i.imgur.com/wYTO9IZ.jpg.

And enemy - http://i.imgur.com/c2AUTml.jpg.

 

[Jedi Exile]

Some interesting new concept art: the world map and a city of Defiance Bay.

 

[Infinitron]

Defiance Bay looks kinda like Baldur's Gate.

 

[Tigranes]

Seems like we'll get zero new info on PE. The W2 design docs were nice to look at.

Stream half-dying... oh great, I must have missed the new art.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Didn't get some of those meme images.

 

[AstroZombie]

I'd like to see that Defiance Bay artwork in high-res and I think Chris has shown one new screenshot/mock-up.

 

[evdk]

A sample location:

 

[AstroZombie]

"Zappididu

This is boring, im out of here bye."

Fucking youtube comments.

Edit:

 

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Seems like we'll get zero new info on PE.

Wrong!

 

[AstroZombie]