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[TripJack]

2/19: Updates and demo link here!

Grimoire, the Ultimate Retro Old School Computer Fantasy Roleplaying Game that promises 600+ hours of gameplay, has now been in development for seventeen years. It's author, Cleveland Mark Blakemore, is something of an internet legend. For those not in the know, Cleve has been trolling around since usenet days predicting the impending apocalypse and proclaiming himself to be a neanderthalic superhuman with an IQ of at least 190. At some point he moved to Australia and began work on an underground survival bunker, work which continues to this day. And now he is asking for a low low funding goal of $250,000 to help complete the greatest game ever made. It will be so good that you will believe a baby can fly.

If you don't believe me just watch the pitch video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xDyXSCd2Lp0
now if that is not the best pitch video ever made I don't know what is.

Do your duty and contribute today!
http://www.indiegogo.com/grimoireforever

[Mictlantecuhtli]

PTW, this looks nice!

[Muz]

250k in 121 days. Good luck

[ukulele]

While this game does not interest me i have to admit: that video was epic i saw all 20 minutes of it.

[Robsoie]

250k in 121 days. Good luck

Sounds unrealistic indeed for a game using such oldschool system.

That's probably why those guys added :

Flexible Funding campaign
This campaign will receive all of the funds contributed by Mon Feb 11 at 11:59PM PT

[TripJack]

yea while 250k is his ultimate (and rather unlikely) goal, he'll take whatever he can get to help finish the game

[freeformschooler]

Chudinho83, it is true I did say that accidentally during the pitch. Most people who do not suffer from severe autism would realize that was a mistake. See if you have an adult nearby who can explain it to you without getting you overstimulated.

But yeah, this looks pretty good. Probably will donate.

[Neonivek]

Grimoire, the Ultimate Retro Old School Computer Fantasy Roleplaying Game that promises 600+ hours of gameplay

Ohh my... What glorious salespitch!

Retro and Old School.

Also FREEKISHLY Indiegogo actually lets me use a credit card dirrectly unlike Kickstarter...

Also what made me suddenly NOT want to donate is this line: "The most mentally retarded hominids who ever existed"

I hope it gets its funding.

[ConscriptFive]

Cleveland Mark Blakemore is a individual dynamo of creative energy, of which the average microcomputerist of today is unable to comprehend.

http://archive.org/stream/ahoy-magazine-54/Ahoy_54_June_1988

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Page 39

Also, I heard a demo for Grimoire will be out next Tuesday.

[TripJack]

haha that's awesome I don't think I've seen that before

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Apparently I thought this game was a hoax before I've heard of it. Although now that I have heard of it, I awfully hope it is one.
It takes an awful lot of ego to spend 17 years making an archaic RPG with all the flaws and no modern innovation, to then finally declare it the Holy Grail of RPGs. Crazies gonna crazy.

[alexandertnt]

600 Hours???

I always exercise caution when I see this. 600 hours of fun? or 600 hours of leveling up every single character/class/race etc combination and completing every side quest for each one. One is a valid positive point, the other is only a meaningless technicality.

I question how the game mechanics of a Retro Old School Computer RPG could be entertaining for almost a month straight.

Also, I agree with Catastrophic lolcats. This looks like a joke.

[Neonivek]

Honestly "Hours of fun" is basically an imaginary and often misleading number that cannot actually be measured.

For example "Star Ocean 2" was a 80+ hour game... but that is only if you tried to get every single ending.

Every Nippon Ichi game boasts hundreds of hours of gameplay... but that is only if you do the after game and EVEN Then it is if you do it the long way.

Then EVEN ALL THAT

How many hours are "hours of fun"? If you melted down Disgaeas 500+ hours of gameplay into hours of fun... you MIGHT get 10 hours of it.

It is why when I hear "Hours of gameplay" I just entirely tune it out. It is a meaningless statement that means even less when you think about it.

[Sensei]

Eh, it's reasonable to want to quantify the amount of entertainment of say, a shooter campaign that takes eight hours to complete compared to an RPG that takes thirty or more, even though it's difficult or even futile.

[Neonivek]

Eh, it's reasonable to want to quantify the amount of entertainment of say, a shooter campaign that takes eight hours to complete compared to an RPG that takes thirty or more, even though it's difficult or even futile.

To an extent. When the numbers start building to insanely high numbers though. It should be obvious they are just padding.