Game News Torment Kickstarter Update #2: Stretch Goals

[LeStryfe79]

Codex should do a drive for $5000 tier obelisk and make it an MCA statue.

 

[skuphundaku]

Here are some stretch goals I like:

2.5 million: Ziets!!! Ideally as a permanent member of the inXile team.
3.0 million: Moar artists!
3.5-4 million: Get a real, established, SciFi writer, one who can actually write decent prose and is not just about ideas, to write the dialogue for one of the NPCs. I suggest Iain Banks or Neal Stephenson or Joe Haldeman. Neal Stephenson may be more likely to agree because he is already messing around with video game stuff.

I disagree that Neal Stephenson would be "more likely to agree because he is already messing around with video game stuff". I would say that that makes him less likely to get involved in another project, now that he already has his own project to work on.

I think that writers with at least some experience writing about transhumanism/posthumanism would fit the bill best. Given that Neal Stephenson is already busy doing his own thing, the rest of the Tier 1 candidates, IMHO, would be (in alphabetical order):
Alastair Reynolds
Charles Stross
Cory Doctorow
David Brin
Greg Bear
Greg Egan
Gregory Benford
Iain M. Banks
Stephen Baxter

What about Yudkowsky? He could use some dough to save us from Robo Jesus.

Nigga' please! Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it... actually, if I think about it more, I've never read any good non-anglosphere sci-fi. I guess that non-anglos don't have the necessary thought patterns to write sci-fi worth a damn.

 

[Kirtai]

I guess that non-anglos don't have the necessary thought patterns to write sci-fi worth a damn.

Jules Verne couldn't write sci-fi?

 

[Minttunator]

Codex should do a drive for $5000 tier obelisk and make it an MCA statue.

Like the Lord our God himself would say: that's a FUCKING GREAT idea!

 

[Jaesun]

Codex should do a drive for $5000 tier obelisk and make it an MCA thumb statue.

 

[l3loodAngel]

Codex should do a drive for $5000 tier obelisk and make it an MCA statue.

Like golden statue of Keanu Reeves, but better.

 

[LeStryfe79]

Yes, a thumb statue!

 

[LeStryfe79]

A thumb statue made from obsidian.

 

[skuphundaku]

I guess that non-anglos don't have the necessary thought patterns to write sci-fi worth a damn.

Jules Verne couldn't write sci-fi?

That was so long ago that it's statistically irrelevant.

 

[bot]

Nigga' please! Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it... actually, if I think about it more, I've never read any good non-anglosphere sci-fi. I guess that non-anglos don't have the necessary thought patterns to write sci-fi worth a damn.

But he's at least second generation American. And even his prefered genre fits:

Science fantasy alright.

 

[Jaesun]

Could you guys just make a topic in the library and discuss your crap there?

 

[evdk]

Nigga' please! Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it... actually, if I think about it more, I've never read any good non-anglosphere sci-fi. I guess that non-anglos don't have the necessary thought patterns to write sci-fi worth a damn.

Jan Weiss's Dům o tisíci patrech says fuck you.

 

[norolim]

Nigga' please! Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it... actually, if I think about it more, I've never read any good non-anglosphere sci-fi. I guess that non-anglos don't have the necessary thought patterns to write sci-fi worth a damn.

Damn. Can one be more ignorant?
Stanisław Lem, Arkady Strugatsky, Pierre Boulle, Yevgeny Zamyatin to name just a few prominent ones.

 

[Bilgefar]

Nigga' please! Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

 

[skuphundaku]

Nigga' please! Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it... actually, if I think about it more, I've never read any good non-anglosphere sci-fi. I guess that non-anglos don't have the necessary thought patterns to write sci-fi worth a damn.

But he's at least second generation American. And even his prefered genre fits:

Science fantasy alright.

Oh, you're talking about that Yudkowsky! I haven't read his Harry Potter stuff and I don't find the concept of it that interesting. However, his AI Box experiment ( http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox ) is off-the-charts-awesome.

 

[skuphundaku]

Nigga' please! Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

I consider him American. Where he was born is much less important than where he lived and how the environment he lived in influenced his work.

 

[skuphundaku]

Nigga' please! Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it... actually, if I think about it more, I've never read any good non-anglosphere sci-fi. I guess that non-anglos don't have the necessary thought patterns to write sci-fi worth a damn.

Jan Weiss's Dům o tisíci patrech says fuck you.

I really don't care for your Czech pride bro

 

[Bilgefar]

Nigga' please! Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

I consider him American. Where he was born is much less important than where he lived and how the environment he lived in influenced his work.

But you call Yudkowsky, who was born and lives in America, Eastern European o_O

Edit: just saw you were thinking of some different Yudkowsky. Disregard.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Could you guys just make a ZIETS!!!! in the ZIETS!!! and ZIETS!1!! your ZIETS!!! there? I need to post my ZIETS!!! here about how ZIETS!!! is ZIETS!!!! and irrelevant ZIETS!!! from the ZIETS!!! that I found on ZIETS!!!!

The floodgates of ZIETS!!!! will ZIETS!!!!

MISTODA!!!

JK, Jaesun. I actually hate you.

 

[Jaesun]

I can't stand you either. The feeling is mutual.

 

[hoverdog]

Nigga' please! Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it... actually, if I think about it more, I've never read any good non-anglosphere sci-fi. I guess that non-anglos don't have the necessary thought patterns to write sci-fi worth a damn.

Jan Weiss's Dům o tisíci patrech says fuck you.

Fucking Lem. Fucking Dukaj.

oh fuck you skuphundaku

 

[hiver]

Nigga' please! Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it... actually, if I think about it more, I've never read any good non-anglosphere sci-fi. I guess that non-anglos don't have the necessary thought patterns to write sci-fi worth a damn.

Gooby, pls...
:smacks gooby with a grimorie made out of Stanislav Lem works:

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lets net get overboard with crazy writer acquisitions. Those famous guys cost fucking millions and would be extremely difficult to get and there are already enough writers on the team.

Surely, Zeits or MCA or other such guys and devs from the "fold" have advantage anyway.
And there are clouds of other stuff that takes precedence, art assets, NPCs, quests, what sound effects they will have, those parts of voiceovers for important NPCs opening lines, and on and on.



Also, has anyone sent a message to MCA saying "Look at what you have done!!!" ?

 

[Euth]

Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it... actually, if I think about it more, I've never read any good non-anglosphere sci-fi. I guess that non-anglos don't have the necessary thought patterns to write sci-fi worth a damn.

Do you consider Russians to be Eastern European? I really enjoyed "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatsky brothers. You could also check out Metro 2033 (the novel, not the game) by Glukhovsky --- I found it to be a fun read. Both of these are science fiction novels.

 

[grdja]

Nigga' please! Eastern Europeans cannot into writing sci-fi even if their lives depended on it... actually, if I think about it more, I've never read any good non-anglosphere sci-fi. I guess that non-anglos don't have the necessary thought patterns to write sci-fi worth a damn.

You're kidding right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Lem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_and_Boris_Strugatsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Nikolayevich_Tolstoy

 

[skuphundaku]

Lem? Nigga, please! Reading that dross is pure mental torture. I would rather be waterboarded than subject myself to that crap. The Strugatsky brothers? Tried their stuff too and, although much better than Lem's, it's still irrevocably tainted. These slavs have have a massive hard-on for existential crises and all manner of faggoty, irrelevant inner turmoils that have no place in good sci-fi.