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Game News First public reveal of Wormwood Studios' upcoming RPG, Fallen Gods
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MRY
Wormwood Studios
2016 is aspirational. I think it's a near certainty for UIHY. I think if Trenchmouth gets made, 2016 is a relatively likely possibility. FG, somewhat less so.
MRY
Wormwood Studios
". . . an adventure game inspired by Planescape: Torment and Fallout." :D
(Though, in fairness, it has its literary inspirations, too. Also, it's awesome that the trailer WEG cut for it is entirely things going boom.)
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I don't care so much about the game's inspirations, but the people making the game. Case in point, I think modern day Bethesda and Bioware are essentially energy-drink slurping neophytes who would self-identify with gamer culture, i.e. repugnant human beings. Your game can take direct inspiration from whatever (though Fallout 1/2 are some of my favorite games), but it's the influences in the lives of the people making the game that ultimately give it breadth and depth incomparable to modern-day AAA releases.
The people who made 'our' classics weren't getting fat playing WoW and fantasizing about being the dev who placed the +12 hackmaster in a chest, they lived varied lives and were inspired by a host of non-digital things such that the games they created reflected it.
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Wormwood Studios
MRY
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I am not entirely comfortable joining them, but it's one thing to have a pseudonym for articles and another to have a pseudonym for games. Also, at the time I wrote that article, I was a law clerk, and what I wrote could (in a convoluted way and under extremely implausible circumstances) somehow reflect on the judges for whom I was clerking. Of course that's true for any employer, but the judge-clerk relationship is different (I think).
I think a turning point was when the Harvard Law alumni magazine wanted to run an article on Primordia (which they'd learned about from a friend of mine). At that point, it seemed to me interesting to discuss the way the two careers overlapped. Clarity, incidentally, was loosely inspired by the first judge for whom I clerked, bringing this whole analysis kind of full circle:
I think a turning point was when the Harvard Law alumni magazine wanted to run an article on Primordia (which they'd learned about from a friend of mine). At that point, it seemed to me interesting to discuss the way the two careers overlapped. Clarity, incidentally, was loosely inspired by the first judge for whom I clerked, bringing this whole analysis kind of full circle:
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