Oh, my. What a wonderful update! I expect many forum members will be looking for papers that discuss practical approaches to long-term game economies. In the meantime, I'm interested in learning how the whole-game project is progressing. What's Adam working on? How's the whole game feel with respect...

to phrase it politely: touch my ability to load/save outside of an explicitly marked iron man mode and you will regret the day you started thinking about doing so YES. When Cornflakes and I are on EXACTLY the same page, you really want to rethink whether alternative implementations are a good idea....

Speaking just for myself, I'm terribly offended that so many people would jettison "strategic empire management" and "information as a commodity." Philistines. :D The first is a reasonable drop, that's mostly UI and command layers. The second is a core component, and would require major underlying ...

I really couldn't argue if someone wanted to call Q3 2018 "insanely" optimistic. :D But I do agree with Hyperion's observation that Josh's gameplay features -- as far as we've seen from the Prototype and the video dev diaries -- tend to to be pretty close to "done" (by the standards of mere mortals)...

The idea of what needing massive storage implies is awesome. I don't think the basic game should be that big, but... what if NPCs were capable of learning? Depending on how ambitious the AI developer gets, that could be pretty data-intensive. That said, I won't install any game or mod that requires ...

The space game M.O.R.E. was successfully Kickstarted in late 2012. They had some problems (mostly related to being over-ambitious), and sort of fell off the grid for a while. Recently, though, they've been more active, including being more open about their planned tasks and statuses. Today, they pos...

Not sceptical for the engine but there will well never be a point where everything in the engine is done and they "only" have to pump in game play. They will go fort and back, between engine and gameplay. More sceptical that they are underestimating the ongoing polishing of the engine as well as th...

Well said, Silverware. I think "moddability" remains a reasonable poll option to include. It's interesting, and maybe useful, to understand how some likely players of LT feel about learning how to mod the game. I take their lack of interest here to mean, not "I don't think anyone should be able to m...

3) Death without Penalties means that Death has no consequences, thus fights don't matter. Not mattering is "Not Fun(tm)" I disagree! You're assuming that consequences focused on the player are the only ones that matter. Death without penalty simply means that fights only matter in the assets you l...

I didn't know about that. I found what I was talking about though: The Black Glove . It fell $300,000 short of the goal, only collecting $200,000. Ah. In a way, that's too bad -- it looks like it would have been interesting. (And the artwork for their Kickstarter was outstanding -- great 1980s gami...

Hmm. Don't know about Kickstarting a BioShock successor. I know that the former Irrational Games split from 2K to become Ghost Story Games, and they're working on something -- not BioShock, though; those rights remained with 2K. I don't recall if Ghost Story has already tried to Kickstart anything y...

I generally don't care for computer games that use a "cards" metaphor. (Unless that's the whole game, as with Gwent... and even that, I only want to play against the computer.) But when you're adapting a tabletop game, you probably have to keep the cards thing. So it is for the upcoming Terraforming...

A Kotaku story about Mafia III mentions in passing that 2K have a new BioShock game in the works. There's no more info than this. But it's something. I'm personally not excited. The original BioShock was interesting and not un-fun, even though it was simplified too much for my taste from System Shoc...

This comment in the Death in LT thread still covers my viewpoint nicely. Short version: people like different kinds of fun. Preferences for character termination mechanics vary accordingly. I personally suspect LT will wind up being more of an exploration game than an action game. If so, then the p...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock/posts/2135868 *cue happy Flatfingers* Yes, you can imagine how closely I've been following this. :D The refocused team are still saying things (mostly on their Discord server, apparently) about the combat side of the game: adding/altering...