Cloud Castles - blockchain action-strategy game from Jon Van Caneghem

[Charles-cgr]

JVC, author of the Might and Magic RPG series, as well as King's Bounty and the Heroes of Might and Magic spinoffs that ensued, has apparently left Tenet and switched his Linkedin status to a cryptic "Stealth startup Mode", which specifies "Full Time".

Is he about to make my Swords and Sorcery series completely and utterly irrelevant?
Is it my fault thanks to me? (I connected with him on LI 6 months ago so I deserve all the credit if things go well)

Speculate! discuss!

 

[Morblot]

Maybe he's teaming up with the Fanstratics guy to deliver us even more boring reminiscing about making an actually good game 25 years ago.

 

[Dorateen]

How is Sovereign coming along?

 

[Infinitron]

I remember what happened the last time JVC was in "stealth startup mode": https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...roduces-creature-quest-for-ios-android.92597/

 

[Charles-cgr]

I remember what happened the last time JVC was in "stealth startup mode": https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads...roduces-creature-quest-for-ios-android.92597/

I remember that. I don't see him leaving Tenet to do that again though. Unless he didn't leave and got laid off...

How is Sovereign coming along?

I'm finishing Iron Ruler and addressing the compatibility issue with NVIDIA that has been crippling Underworld reviews. Then it could actually be pretty quick...

 

[Aemar]

JVC's lack of proper involvement with the PC game dev industry following NWC's demise is probably one of the biggest dissapointments ever. He's been off the radar for two decades now. Whatever the fuck he's been doing working for EA and other companies since 2003 is meaningless. Apparently he's doing iOS and Android games these days.

 

[Stella Brando]

Self startup mode = looking at adult websites.

 

[Charles-cgr]

Apparently things are moving along:

https://digitalinsightgames.com/

$7.5M raised
Metaverse stuff, with ownership of digital assets enabled and whatnot.

Not good news but news nonetheless.

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

I like how any excitement I had over this knowledge just completely disappeared the second I saw "original blockchain games". I'm starting to wonder if there's a pattern to all these old game creators turning into blockchain fanatics.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Apparently things are moving along:

https://digitalinsightgames.com/

$7.5M raised
Metaverse stuff, with ownership of digital assets enabled and whatnot.

Not good news but news nonetheless.

Move along, nothing to see here.

 

[udm]

At the very least, we know he's not gonna make your game irrelevant Charles-cgr

Anyway I suspect a large part of why these industry greats have no desire to do what they had before is that they know it might not bring them money, and they'd be competing in a very saturated gaming industry, which means there's the potential for the game to go completely unnoticed. I don't blame them for it if so, and I think it's better this way too. Just look at Underworld Ascendant and how it has tarnished the LGS and Ultima legacies.

 

[Hobo Elf]

At the very least, we know he's not gonna make your game irrelevant Charles-cgr

Anyway I suspect a large part of why these industry greats have no desire to do what they had before is that they know it might not bring them money, and they'd be competing in a very saturated gaming industry, which means there's the potential for the game to go completely unnoticed. I don't blame them for it if so, and I think it's better this way too. Just look at Underworld Ascendant and how it has tarnished the LGS and Ultima legacies.

As opposed to the saturated mobile game industry? Or whatever con you want to call this NFT gaming industry which has more quote unquote developers than actual customers. It's all just buzzwords and (stolen) logos, but no actual product.

 

[Charles-cgr]

At the very least, we know he's not gonna make your game irrelevant Charles-cgr

Yes, I'm quite capable of doing that myself, thank you

 

[JarlFrank]

Metaverse stuff, with ownership of digital assets enabled and whatnot.

Cool, so just about the only thing in existence that's worse than mobile games.

 

[Fedora Master]

Another has-been with a vaporware scam.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Maybe he's teaming up with the Fanstratics guy to deliver us even more boring reminiscing about making an actually good game 25 years ago.

Lol yeah exactly. It does take a certain kind of talent to make something so just completely unoriginal and boring as that, without just straight up copying.

'Oh, so I made mario brothers 40 years ago, and people liked it, so I've decided to get back into video game making. My new game is called "RuJumColCoiSquiGoomb" because you run, jump, collect coins, and squish goombas. But now they're called "Paggysquiggs" and the main character is named "Steve Marington" because apparently the dude who came up with the names didn't come with me to my new company, and I'm breathtakingly uncreative.'

 

[Diggfinger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPIAwm8HAFM

Did anyone see this?

https://www.cloudcastles.gg/

Is this a new JVC venture???


https://ibb.co/Pmwmw4T][/url]

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

When I saw it the first thing I thought was "is this some NFT bullshit?" and lo behold:

 

[luj1]

last time i checked JVC was heavily into mobile games

 

[Aemar]

JVC in 2003:

''Time for me to create shit tier games that absolutely no one will give a shit about. I'll need to do this for at least 20 years from now on''.

 

[kites]

afaik Discounting the mobile game, he hasn't developed much of anything in the last twenty years; unless you count Tiberian Twilight and the cancelled C&C

 

[tritosine2k]

afaik Discounting the mobile game, he hasn't developed much of anything in the last twenty years; unless you count Tiberian Twilight and the cancelled C&C

Then went from low-poly, horribly animated (if you call it even that) 3D to UE5. And it will work out well, riiiight.

last time i checked JVC was heavily into mobile games

Sounds rather reasonable.