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Author Topic: The Derail Games: A game of Awesome Chess.  (Read 167795 times)

mastahcheese

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You see, Xan? Everything was going fine until you made a suggestion.
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Xantalos

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I guess my manliness was too much for the aliens.
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mastahcheese

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So what did everyone think of playing that, anyway? Would it be the sort of thing to be worth trying to go all out on in an actual game, with multiple missions, customized characters with promotions, perks, and all that stuff (since I have Enemy Within, now, we could actually use genetics and robotics modifications.) or was this best as just a test, and go make an actual forum game?

I actually had a lot of fun doing this, and it's pretty much nowhere near as much work as a forum game to run.
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So what did everyone think of playing that, anyway? Would it be the sort of thing to be worth trying to go all out on in an actual game, with multiple missions, customized characters with promotions, perks, and all that stuff (since I have Enemy Within, now, we could actually use genetics and robotics modifications.) or was this best as just a test, and go make an actual forum game?

I actually had a lot of fun doing this, and it's pretty much nowhere near as much work as a forum game to run.
I'd prefer an actual forum game, but do whichever you prefer.

Minimalist games are great for when you're bored, by the way. You should start one.
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mastahcheese

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Minimalist games are great for when you're bored, by the way. You should start one.
I tend to get bored of minimalist games because they always seem to devolve into the same mindlessness.
I crave for things with more meaning behind them.
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Minimalist games are great for when you're bored, by the way. You should start one.
I tend to get bored of minimalist games because they always seem to devolve into the same mindlessness.
I crave for things with more meaning behind them.
But that takes effort and thus mortality.
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mastahcheese

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Minimalist games are great for when you're bored, by the way. You should start one.
I tend to get bored of minimalist games because they always seem to devolve into the same mindlessness.
I crave for things with more meaning behind them.
But that takes effort and thus mortality.
Yes, it does.
I think I'm going to go re-read through those steamship rules.
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Xantalos

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Just a hint if you ever want to be immortal: infinite sloth.
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mastahcheese

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Just finished reading through the Crew manual, going to save the ship manual for tomorrow.

You can die in some pretty freaking horrible ways in this game. And it has some sweet rules for it, too.
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Ok, in-between being active on the forum and playing Knights and Merchants, I've been perusing my way through piecewise's Mainspring rules, and I think I've finally finished all of it.

That's some crazy stuff in there, and a fair bit of it is incomplete, but the main questions I had were answered through a PM to piecewise himself, so I think I'm going to launch a game of it, particularly seeing as how the poll says there are more people who are tired of my s#!% than there are people who don't want a game.

I'll be making a thread for it shortly.
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Elephant Parade

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Mastahcheese, mind if I hijack your thread slightly by placing a list of my games in one of my posts?
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mastahcheese

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Mastahcheese, mind if I hijack your thread slightly by placing a list of my games in one of my posts?
Go for it, do you want me to link to it in the OP?
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Mastahcheese, mind if I hijack your thread slightly by placing a list of my games in one of my posts?
Go for it, do you want me to link to it in the OP?
Nah. It'll be sig-linked.

Edit: Also, in the second post.
« Last Edit: January 07, 2014, 01:09:11 am by Elephant Parade »
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A question for you mastahcheese: do you think focusing on one project at a time would allow you to make that game more creative, long-lasting, and fun, or do you consider yourself a Piecewise type, able to shift gears between multiple games without losing much?

I really like your stuff, but you're constantly dropping and starting, so that seems like either an attention span thing OR a strong fear of failure.
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