Codex Interview with Afterfall lead designer

[JarlFrank]

Wow, nice that my interview attracted so many of you devs. You should definitely stay, we might be a bit rough sometimes [as Elwro said, don't click the links ], but we can be a good source of inspiration and most here seem to be pretty interested in your game, too.

 

[OSK]

Well I don't know how much investment Laid back gaming has, but they are not using a publisher at all, and selling their games on Steam. I didn't know you need $200K to develop with Source and use Steam.

I didn't think Dropship was using source? You don't need to license source to use Steam as a distro, and it would make a lot more sense for their publishing business model to involve a cut of the takings rather than a prohibitive fee up front. I call shenanigans.

You only get to distribute over Steam for free IF you use Valve's engine.

So why choose Steam? I have chosen Steam because if you buy Valves engine to make your game with, you get to keep 100% of what you sell on Steam. That's right 100%.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=130

 

[Morbus]

ps: nobody I know actually finnished Arcanum...

Blasphemy.

Not surprising. I don't know a single person that has even heard of the game... Well, except for my PnP group, of course, but those heard of it through me.

 

[Shannow]

ps: nobody I know actually finnished Arcanum...

Blasphemy.

Not surprising. I don't know a single person that has even heard of the game... Well, except for my PnP group, of course, but those heard of it through me.

Well, only one friend and I played the game (in my circle of friends.) And not wanting to derail the thread but we both didn't stop because of the atrocious combat/gameplay or the completely messed up balancing or any of the various other enervating issues but because of gamebreaking bugs. Well, I'm actually not sure if it was a bug with me but I couldn't continue and at that point I didn't want to either.
I never understood what so many codexers see in that game.
But this is about Afterfall which will be extremely complex but completely bug-free with enticing gameplay, eh?

 

[OSK]

I never understood what so many codexers see in that game.

A great setting and pretty much the greatest example of choices and consequences in an RPG EVAR. It also happens to be my favorite RPG.

On topic:
The game looks promising. Hopefully these guys can deliver.

 

[dagorkan]

As about The Witcher - i worked at CDPR, but imho Witcher is good hack&slash not realy good crpg game

Good to hear that!

 

[ricolikesrice]

....

the interview and infos on their site concerning gameplay sound really good, but i ve heard the same stuff many, many times before. except that in terms of hype-BS... they already match or even beat bethesda and carsten strehse....

what lowered my interest drastically was the godawful writing, story and world-descriptions on the site. maybe translations are to blame, i dunno but i felt like reading a 13 year old thinking up a new PnP campaign when browsing through that part of the english site.

but who knows, good luck to them anyways.... its not like F3 will have better story/world/writing either ^^

 

[VonVentrue]

A decent interview, the very fact they are ambitious to create something memorable and seem to understand the basic principles of role-playing games is a good sign.

All that remains is to wish them luck. Hopefully, Afterfall won't turn into vaporware.

 

[Globbi]

Hopefully, Afterfall will turn into not-vaporware.

fixed.

 

[Cycloptis]

As rico pointed out, one of the [few] things that worries me somewhat is the writing, mostly on the website. Hopefully they'll take some greater care with the in-game writing, or at least amass the funds for a good translation.

 

[kolos]

I can promise you guys that this game will be shipped...but this will take much of our time

Thanks for all comments. Cheers.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Dude, it better be good cause you got my hopes up like a teenage boy's erection.