Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind - King of Dragon Pass spiritual successor

[Merlkir]

Don't follow the thread if it offends you? Or show some of that pimpin art so much better than mine?

 

[Shaewaroz]

Ignore the idiot, he's not worth your time. People with less urine in their skulls appreciate the fact that you keep us posted on the Six Ages' development.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Sorry for interrupting with my bullshit opinion, now get back to work.

 

[Merlkir]

Yeah, I kind of get it, there's nothing to show for the game so far. I mean, I've read the design doc, I've seen the many concept art pieces. But we don't want to show anything too soon, because it's obviously still subject to change, potentially. (we haven't even said what the people you'll be leading ingame are going to be. Glorantha buffs could probably tell from the concept art. Still, this might change slightly, Robin D. Laws hasn't even started writing yet.)

So, we're really excited, I suspect some other people might be looking forward to the game as well.
AFAIK David is planning another blog post, this time with little something to look at.

edit: Looking at it from a marketing point of view, it's probably a good idea to keep updating the blog, even with not-updates, KoDP is quite popular on iOS and we need to have fans know we're making another one, to keep momentum. The game won't be ready for quite a while.

 

[tuluse]

I, for one, am glad to read about this game and any updates on it.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Merlkir, as long as you have something it makes a big difference, but blogs are dime a dozen.

 

[Merlkir]

) OK, so the next blog is up...and David decided to only show two pieces, which won't even be used. Guess he still doesn't want to give ANY hints WRT the setting.



Sorry.

http://sixages.blogspot.cz/2014/12/concept-art-process.html

 

[Shaewaroz]

http://sixages.blogspot.cz/2014/12/concept-art-process.html

So is one of the concept art pieces your work?

 

[Merlkir]

Hah, neither actually. The scribe is Marguerite's and the chieftain is Dario's.

 

[Merlkir]

BTW, Robin D. Laws (who's writing the game) has a very good podcast, with a fellow writer Kenneth Hite:
http://www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/
Well worth listening to! I listen to a lot of podcasts while painting and KARTAS is one of my favourites.

I'm reading the discussion in our "Writing" dev channel and bloody hell, Robin is just so smart and professional. I better shape up and do some more concept art. :D

 

[mondblut]

Why is it a "spiritual successor" (god, I hate these words almost irrationally, they literally sounds like "we're going to swindle you by exploiting your foolish nostalgy, stupid fanboy")? It has supposedly similar gameplay, it has the same Glorantha setting - by industry standarts, that makes a... sequel, duh.

 

[Merlkir]

Well, in game terms possibly so. Not as a story though, the clan won't be Orlanthi, nothing from the first game will be referenced. Yes, it's set in Glorantha, but saying it's the same setting is like equating Rome and Napoleon Total War, because they both take place on Earth.

Like...yeah, gameplay-wise it is designed (so far) as KoDP2. :D Hopefully no nostalgia swindling is going to happen. (doesn't seem to be the plan anyway)

 

[tuluse]

Well, in game terms possibly so. Not as a story though, the clan won't be Orlanthi, nothing from the first game will be referenced. Yes, it's set in Glorantha, but saying it's the same setting is like equating Rome and Napoleon Total War, because they both take place on Earth.

Like...yeah, gameplay-wise it is designed (so far) as KoDP2. :D Hopefully no nostalgia swindling is going to happen. (doesn't seem to be the plan anyway)

No one calls Napoleon Total War a spiritual successor to Rome. In fact everyone would call it a sequel.

 

[Merlkir]

That example was more aimed towards the "setting is the same" comment. But true, fair enough.

I think the SS label is there more due to KoDP being a 16 year old game, it just sounds odd to be making a sequel now, for something released in 1999.

 

[Norfleet]

No one calls Napoleon Total War a spiritual successor to Rome. In fact everyone would call it a sequel.

No, we wouldn't. Napoleon can't be considered related to Rome in any way, except tangentially by theme. Saying Napoleon is a sequel to Rome is like saying Starcraft is a sequel to Warcraft. Sure, they're both Blizzard RTS "-craft", but the similarity pretty much ends there.

 

[Kem0sabe]

J.P ‏@JP_Cunha
Shame that I can't seem to get my fingers around the Android version of King of the Dragon pass, one of my favorite #rpg but small screens

King of Dragon Pass ‏@KingDragonPass
@JP_Cunha iPad then …

J.P ‏@JP_Cunha
@KingDragonPass regrettably, I would sooner play a sequel than on an ipad *wink*


King of Dragon Pass‏@KingDragonPass
@JP_Cunha That can be arranged … if you’re patient.

 

[Merlkir]

Confusing exchange, even I can't be certain what that meant. :D

 

[ERYFKRAD]

tl;dr sequel incoming

 

[Shaewaroz]

A new development update about development tools:

http://sixages.blogspot.cz/2015/02/tools.html

There's also one screenshot of something that looks like a WIP UI with some Clan Ring member pictures:

 

[Merlkir]

Yup, that's a wip UI. I think it's safe to say the game will have people, cows and warriors. :D And seasons. I'll be doing all new portraits, these are obviously KoDP placeholders.

 

[Raghar]

Only 10 warriors?

 

[Merlkir]

Thane equivalent, I suppose. The numbers of things will be a bit different to the Orlanthi standards in KoDP.

 

[Merlkir]

New blog on the scripting language:

http://sixages.blogspot.cz/2015/04/scripting.html

And from Twitter:

Progress update: UI designed. 115 scenes written, 66 coded and running.

I've not done any scene art yet, we have some concept art aspects to iron out. I should start later this month. We've also contracted two additional artists:

http://povorot.deviantart.com/
http://ahszymborska.deviantart.com/

edit: Trickers confirmed.

#SixAges is truly a Gloranthan game: just fixed the first Trickster-related bug.

edit: so are dwarves.

It is not a @SixAges spoiler to say that I really like writing Gloranthan dwarves. Because they are jerks.

 

[Shaewaroz]

Povorot's art looks exactly right for Six Ages, very much in line with other Glorantha art - good choice there.

 

[Shaewaroz]

New blog update about maps of KoDP and Six Ages:

http://sixages.blogspot.fi/search?u...d-max=2016-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=4

Apparently David doesn't remember how he coded KoDP's map data files.

Nonetheless, a really good update this time. This image of KoDP's map zones should make any KoDP fan jizz: