Grimoire - is there really hope?

Cleve just changed the date to Fall 2009 for Grimoire. He also changed the hidden text to "The singularity approaches!" He isn't usually this on the ball about updating the dates after missing a deadline. Maybe he actually is starting to get serious about finishing it.
 
Joined
Sep 22, 2008
Messages
30
Is that site really his?
I mean, is it still he who updates the front page?
 
Joined
Sep 14, 2009
Messages
5
Items finished, all 900+ of them. Big milestone. This includes all the roleplaying items like monster weapons which are invisible to the player. Lots and lots of meticulous editing of all their properties and each individual setting to get it just right for combat and game challenge.

Scenario is complete. No empty chests, no faulty logic, no missing ends.

Now working on Monsters. Should take me two weeks to get them all adjusted just a little more for completeness.

Then wandering monster/random encounter database polished off, ambient sounds data, a tiny bit of spells editing should all happen before end of December.

2009 was a long haul but worth it.
 
Joined
Jul 11, 2007
Messages
79
Location
Deep underground in a massive fortified complex be
Great to hear from you Cleve. Call me why don't you, I only live a short hop away from you!! :)
 
Joined
Aug 31, 2006
Messages
12,827
Location
Australia
What's kinda funny is that the graphics are so outdated by now, that even if he releases it, only the most dedicated crpg players will even look at it. Of course, I'm one of those folks, so I'll be game if it's really cheap or free. I really think Cleve should hold the release date back until D.W. Bradley dies of old age.
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
8,836
Well, based on his games, I think DW died quite some time ago. ;)
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
13,547
Location
Illinois, USA
LOL.

Graphics don't make a game. They can break it, but they don't make it. Too many ASCII Rogue-likes that vastly out-strip the best commercial sludge out there to believe it needs top notch 3D visuals.

Besides, games like World of Goo are doing quite well without fancy graphics. And Mega Man 9 sold well with NES-style graphics.

If it comes out, I'll purchase it. Heck, if you can pull it before year's end, I'll buy one for my brother as well.

However, I believe it'll be out after my children's grandchildren are old and decrepit.
 
Joined
Jun 28, 2007
Messages
2,752
Location
In the Middle of Nowhere
Yes, that's quite an accomplishment indeed ...
 
Joined
Nov 5, 2006
Messages
21,962
Location
Old Europe
This looks just great. :) I mean, the whole page bursts of what we call "Vorfreude" (the actual feeling of looking forward to something) ... :)
 
Joined
Nov 5, 2006
Messages
21,962
Location
Old Europe
"Grimoire - is there really hope?"

That all depends on what you are hoping for.

If you are hoping Grimoire will be released and playable in your lifetime, probably not.

If you are hoping it will be the vaporware that just keeps on giving year after year after year, boy are you in luck. Now that Duke Nukem Forever has bitten the dust, Grimoire has to live on in development hell for the rest of eternity.

Invisible tagline: The impossible is about to happen!
 
Joined
Sep 22, 2008
Messages
30
itz coming

I tried to get a sneak preview from a friend of mine but this happened to him the second it booted up on his screen:

raiders4.jpg


... so I have to keep it under wraps until March.
 
Joined
Jul 11, 2007
Messages
79
Location
Deep underground in a massive fortified complex be
Baff said:
Cleve just changed the date to Fall 2009 for Grimoire. He also changed the hidden text to "The singularity approaches!" He isn't usually this on the ball about updating the dates after missing a deadline. Maybe he actually is starting to get serious about finishing it.
Click to expand...

He can't get "serious" about "finishing it", because if he did, it would mean the practical joke (footnote 1) would be over.

-peterb

Footnote 1: This, of course, is proof that something can be a practical joke and still be tediously, painfully, embarrassingly unfunny.
 
Joined
Jun 11, 2008
Messages
21
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom