Developer Story Time with Old Man Davis

[Anthony Davis]

secret confession:









I would probably kill someone to work on Arcanum 2.


To curry favor as to get placed on the team, or to create an opening on the team I could fill. Either works.









Man, that would be so amazing, and I already have a title.

Arcanum: New Tarant.


or wait! a post apocalyptic Arcanum! Oh man... I can use the same title too.

 

[mindx2]

secret confession:









I would probably kill someone to work on Arcanum 2.


To curry favor as to get placed on the team, or to create an opening on the team I could fill. Either works.









Man, that would be so amazing, and I already have a title.

Arcanum: New Tarant.


or wait! a post apocalyptic Arcanum! Oh man... I can use the same title too.

Why do you tease us so.....

 

[Lorica]

I would love to work on someday the following games:

Vampire: New Bloodlines (or alternatively, New Vampire: New Bloodlines)
Fallout New Texas
Star Trek: Into the New Darkness
Beta Protocol

You had better push for this!

 

[Ninjerk]

we need a blade runner rpg

Yeap, or at least a game in that universe. I don't think you need to be an actual bladerunner.

The PnC Adventure game from WestWood was pretty great at the time, probably still pretty great today.

What if you were an animal technician from Androids or a designer of genetic material like the azn that Batty and the other dude find in the movie?

 

[Zed]

or wait! a post apocalyptic Arcanum! Oh man... I can use the same title too.

Tarant just kept growing, creating a leading metropolis spreading the influence of technology all over Arcanum - and beyond. It went so far that over time, magick got outlawed in the city. Just too many incidents involving uncontrolled magick they said, and the big firms of Tarant simply couldnt't have that - they mastered only technology and slaves.
But there was a Magickalocalypse, and Tarant blew up like a nuclear bomb. Some speculate it was a chemical accident from one of the inner-city factories, others say it was Magick terrorism.

Arcanum is now a land of broken, whirring gears and everywhere smells of sulfur and everything has this weird magic glowy toxic shit all over. Scavengers report that wildlife has grown and mutated.
Tarant is being built again, but it's far from its former glory and most people of past civilization live scattered across Arcanum. The Dwarves all returned to the mountains where it is said they are re-building a new city for themselves. Most Elves have secluded themselves in smaller convents out in the ancient wilds - some say they attempt to rebuild the land with magic, other say they are planing to take to the sky in massive ships. The half-races, shorties and biggies, and men, all live in ideologically differentiated clans, houses, guilds, factions... looking to gain any sort of influence they may in the new world.

You have just arrived in Dernholm.It's a retreat and haven for many survivors, but resources are running out quickly.
But why are you here? This shapes your character background and gives you an initial goal which will eventually steer you toward New Tarant, where a sinister plot is unfolding.

 

[Minttunator]

You had better push for this!

Making sequels to Alpha Protocol might not be a bad idea, I tried it in Game Dev Tycoon (which is clearly a realistic simulation of the gaming business ) last week and:

Spoiler

 

[Excidium]

New Vampire: New Bloodlines

Brock Heinz, one of the programmers on Bloodlines told me about the demo they made for a sequel. You could play as a werewolf, running down the street flipping over cars and tearing people apart. It would have been amazing...

sigh

;_;7

CRPGs just weren't ready for the amount of violence, misanthropy and enviromental awareness werewolf the apocalypse entails.

 

[Ninjerk]

Would've been perfect for modern SJW gamers.

 

[Tigranes]

Beta Protocol is probably the greatest thing that could happen to my gaming life in the next few years, because, well, it would never get Kickstarter millions like P:E. Fuck you all, it is an amazingly fun and unique game and learning from their fuckups last time it can end up easily better than Dishonoured or DX:HR or whatever.

 

[Excidium]

Yes. I weep for what is lost. Alpha Protocol with moar SIE and moar Albatross and moar extreme Thorton would be the shit.

Would've been perfect for modern SJW gamers.

I can only imagine the RPS headlines. Werewolf has everything...extreme xenophobia, justified genocide before hitler made cool, rigid meritocracy, feminazi stereotypes, mysoginistic nazi vikings, racist native americans...oh, what about the first tenet of the litany? Sexual repression and ableism combo! Not to mention the situation of werewolves as being on the verge of extinction and their traditional ways means finding a mate to produce offspring is a duty which implies homophobia.

All paired with the fact that werewolves are the good guys with the most noble of goals...

 

[Darth Roxor]

Yes. I weep for what is lost. Alpha Protocol with moar SIE and moar Albatross and moar extreme Thorton would be the shit.

And maybe we'd finally learn WHERE ARE THE FUCKING HALBECH MISSILES

 

[Duraframe300]

GZeits is a Writer, and an amazing one at that. While I'm sure he can do it, he is not a designer.
Travis Stout is a game designer who just happens to be a very funny and clever writer as well. He is a very skilled and pragmatic game designer who can write very well.

It seems those have reversed a bit, since George seems to be more interested in area design now and Travis seems to focus on writing (Currently as a script writer on Assassin's Creed)

 

[abnaxus]

I would only want a new Bloodlines if Josh Sawyer works on systems. After all he thinks it's shit.

Sawyer arguing with Volourn and Gromnir. Delightful thread.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

Reading all about DS3 here, I think I will wait for a sale or something to try it.

 

[Wizfall]

Arcanum 2 would be awesome.
As well as a space opera or cyberpunk isometric TB cRPG.

 

[Kane]

Sawyer arguing with Volourn and Gromnir. Delightful thread.

At least Sawyer is a proponent of "60 FPS or bust", even if his games rarely manage to put out that many frames.

 

[DwarvenFood]

Just wanted to say, this is the third-best thread on the 'Dex.

 

[Delterius]

Anthony Davis I actually have a question for you. And I can't believe I didn't think of it before. Is Josh Sawyer actually Roguey? And in the unlikely event that this isn't true, is he afraid of her?

 

[2house2fly]

Beta Protocol is probably the greatest thing that could happen to my gaming life in the next few years, because, well, it would never get Kickstarter millions like P:E. Fuck you all, it is an amazingly fun and unique game and learning from their fuckups last time it can end up easily better than Dishonoured or DX:HR or whatever.

I don't know if I'd like an Alpha Protocol sequel necessarily, but that dialogue system needs to be in more games. I feel weird now when I play games where you have to MAKE A CHOICE and there's no time pressure. Like in Mass Effect 3, when you choose between the quarians and the geth, and you can just sit there for hours mulling it over. Alpha Protocol made me go with my gut.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

Anthony Davis I actually have a question for you. And I can't believe I didn't think of it before. Is Josh Sawyer actually Roguey? And in the unlikely event that this isn't true, is he afraid of her?

Roguey is his boss now. I doubt Anthony will confirm it.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

Beta Protocol is probably the greatest thing that could happen to my gaming life in the next few years, because, well, it would never get Kickstarter millions like P:E. Fuck you all, it is an amazingly fun and unique game and learning from their fuckups last time it can end up easily better than Dishonoured or DX:HR or whatever.

I don't know if I'd like an Alpha Protocol sequel necessarily, but that dialogue system needs to be in more games. I feel weird now when I play games where you have to MAKE A CHOICE and there's no time pressure. Like in Mass Effect 3, when you choose between the quarians and the geth, and you can just sit there for hours mulling it over. Alpha Protocol made me go with my gut.

a CnC popamole done right.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

Fuck i am sounding like an Obsidian fanboy. i need something to shit on.

 

[Rake]

Anthony Davis I actually have a question for you. And I can't believe I didn't think of it before. Is Josh Sawyer actually Roguey? And in the unlikely event that this isn't true, is he afraid of her?

Roguey is his boss now. I doubt Anthony will confirm it.

Roguey is Feargus????

 

[Duraframe300]

Anthony Davis I actually have a question for you. And I can't believe I didn't think of it before. Is Josh Sawyer actually Roguey? And in the unlikely event that this isn't true, is he afraid of her?

Roguey is his boss now. I doubt Anthony will confirm it.

Roguey is Feargus????

Chris Jones more likely as a Programmer

 

[Anthony Davis]

Anthony Davis I actually have a question for you. And I can't believe I didn't think of it before. Is Josh Sawyer actually Roguey? And in the unlikely event that this isn't true, is he afraid of her?

All of these speculations about who Rogey is.

I would have thought it was obvious.



I'm Roguey.