GothicGothicness
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I'm working on it! Just give me more artists and it would be done faster!
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There's some irony in the fact that two posters in this thread either have, or are, producing indie TB RPGs…They're not dead yet for people open to indie values. If you expect AAA production, well, that will never happen.
(except for a pedantic point that Temple of Elemental Evil was difficult…not for the hardy goldbox players it wasn't!)
Well, it could be argued that Drakensang was an AAa game - with real time party combat not based on InfinityE (which was great because it was actually nearly turn based). And yet it`s dead apparently…
I think we really are a niche audience and apart from few indies it`ll be a long time before any major dev will touch this genre again… (in the West, that is
Working on it - but it will be a while
I guess all turn-based games will sooner or later die out and for a very good reason : they are all boring.
Even grand strategy / 4x games are moving to real time direction ( Distant Worlds anyone?)
If I was actually intelligent enough to NOT miserable fail my Computer Science education, I probably would have been working on my own hobby-project right now
As it stands now, I'm STILL trying to get a basic grasp on C++, and after years of trying I still haven't gotten an inch further in my attempts of getting into hobbyist game development.
Yeah definitively, specially chess. So boring. Those 150 million active players are just waiting for someone to come up with a good real time adaptation.
Civ 5 and Total War (campaign mode) seem to be doing alright, don't they.
Yeah definitively, specially chess. So boring. Those 150 million active players are just waiting for someone to come up with a good real time adaptation.
don't forget it really needs high-res 3d graphics with lots of shaders and simplification of the rules!
O… and the queen… she needs to have bigger boobs…..
They are doing alright because they have a dedicated crowd but they will not generate any new fans , so their fan base will decline
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There's plenty of non-indie games for other niche audiences.
Sometimes a genre faces an unexpected downturn, happens to niche as well as mainstream. Then those devs go bankrupt or start doing other genres. Happened to space sims and adventure games, both once mainstream genres that sold millions. It's probably going to happen to genres that are mainstream today.
The publishers will then refuse to invest in the genre until some small-budget game becomes an unexpected hit and "revives" it.
i play backgammon with my father and cousins at Sundays and i can not tolerate turns
They are doing alright because they have a dedicated crowd but they will not generate any new fans , so their fan base will decline .
Chess is not a computer game, i play backgammon with my father and cousins at Sundays and i can not tolerate turns