This seems pretty cool.

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Humanity was wiped out during a massive war. What remains are the robots and androids on the floating islands caused by the destruction of the war.

While I agree the game looks great and am definitely interested in it, sometimes i wonder; will we ever have a different outlook on the future than war, death, destruction and general dystopia? :unsure:

I wonder about that too. It's not just games; when was the last time you saw an optimistic SF movie or book? I can understand why--things are going crappy in the real world. But I myself recently finished writing, and am now at the "fail to get it published" stage, a utopian science fiction novel, partly as a reaction against this trend. Sure, the utopia gets invaded, but it's still a utopia, just a utopia that's getting a bit bombed.

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Quoting: shibuyaew-zu

That seems kind of rude. You got something against the project?

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderBalls Of Steel

You remind me of those balls: (careful, before clicking please note that the large images are quite large - they're about 500k each, and could take some time to download on a modem.) https://legacy.3drealms.com/balls/index.html [External Link]
Great game back then!

The picture of box notes that it's "pinball on steriods!" :grin:

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: 14Even though I play board games with a couple friends on a routine schedule, they will never play a pen & paper RPG again. We did it long ago with a DM that we didn't enjoy, and they're stuck with that memory and won't ever try it again. So, programs like this would be a hopeless, disappointing waste of time and money for me.

/saltiness

Sad. But I could see this happening for sure. Sometimes the RPG experience is just a reason for friends to get together. Boards games work as well, but I think the advantage of RPGs is you don't have to learn new rules every time you get together (unless of course you play the same board games over and over.)

We used to learn a new game every time because one of my friends has a very large collection that continues to grow. Not too long ago, we switched to sticking to a new game for 2-3 sessions in a row so we get better at it. We've got a good thing going that I can't complain too much about.

Even with board games, it's nice if you don't have to spend half the evening learning the rules every dashed time.
Now our group is kind of at the other end of that--although we've tried a few game systems over the years, the initial GURPS campaign we started in 1987 is still going. Every now and then we start new characters, but the old ones are still around, just settled down a bit because they're rich and powerful. So that's the same game system for, what, 36 years?

I love GURPS, though its flexibility also made it so I had a billion game ideas back in the day and so we were always trying out different genres.

Oh hell yeah. I did a cyberpunk game with magic and vicious art critics, we had a Wild West campaign with psionics and magic, did a campaign set in David Brin's "Uplift Wars" universe (there's actually a GURPS supplement for that), various interstellar SF things.

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There is no way I could successfully play this game. But it's very pretty; I might enjoy watching someone play it.

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Quoting: Maxine

Quoting: hardpenguinAlso: the first 5 people to comment with a funny joke about robots will get a Steam key for D-Corp ☺️✌️

Q: What do you call a melancholic robot ?

Marvin.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI'm not for all this "new age" "feel good" fad stuff -- tried & true is fine -- having a traditional job roles for income is just fine too with hierarchical structure. If you can pull off the "Valve Bee Hive" that's fine too -- just keep all the fad --isms out of my damn free software please.

Your damn free software is a fad-ism. :grin:

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: 14Even though I play board games with a couple friends on a routine schedule, they will never play a pen & paper RPG again. We did it long ago with a DM that we didn't enjoy, and they're stuck with that memory and won't ever try it again. So, programs like this would be a hopeless, disappointing waste of time and money for me.

/saltiness

Sad. But I could see this happening for sure. Sometimes the RPG experience is just a reason for friends to get together. Boards games work as well, but I think the advantage of RPGs is you don't have to learn new rules every time you get together (unless of course you play the same board games over and over.)

We used to learn a new game every time because one of my friends has a very large collection that continues to grow. Not too long ago, we switched to sticking to a new game for 2-3 sessions in a row so we get better at it. We've got a good thing going that I can't complain too much about.

Even with board games, it's nice if you don't have to spend half the evening learning the rules every dashed time.
Now our group is kind of at the other end of that--although we've tried a few game systems over the years, the initial GURPS campaign we started in 1987 is still going. Every now and then we start new characters, but the old ones are still around, just settled down a bit because they're rich and powerful. So that's the same game system for, what, 36 years?

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Quoting: DrMcCoyThe dice rolling and maths is mostly taken from you. Which simplifies things, but on the other hand, it takes away from the physical dice rolling that you might enjoy.

A friend of mine bought this snazzy set of dice where you roll the things and they export the die roll to Roll20 (presumably also to FoundryVTT etc). We were all really impressed and thought it was major cool. Unfortunately, they didn't work worth a damn. He would roll 3d6 and half the time only 2 dice would roll . . . which meant you had to look carefully, because he did get a result. Or they would trigger without him doing anything. They were a pain and he sent them back. Pity, because it seemed like such a nice idea.

As to the maps and stuff . . . I used to break those out for big fights, but not bother and just keep it abstract with small ones. Especially since often the small fights just happened because the players did something interesting and unexpected, not because I had anything planned. When I did break out the maps, often as not I'd just use dice and coins and things to represent opponents. At some instinctive level, on average I'd rather they were listening to my descriptions than looking at the map.

Don't get me wrong, I quite enjoy the tactics of a solid fight, and I do value the tactical information from that spatial representation. I just feel that the bare bones, just sparse lines and an arbitrary representation of combatants, are what give the information, and everything beyond that is just pulling you out of the imagination level by getting you to look at the map.

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