Bay 12 Games Forum

Quote from: nuova on June 06, 2012, 10:59:15 pm

Quote from: Lord Dullard on June 06, 2012, 09:01:17 pm

Most notably I have completely coded a Fallout-themed game with a full combat system,

Link?

It has been taken down for some time, since it was an online game and after the end of the last plot arc I didn't have the time to GM for 20-ish people and handle college/life in general. I have the code sitting around somewhere on a CD, but I'm not too keen on digging it out with everything else I've got going on.

I'm actually trying to find any reason to believe what you promise is not vaporware. You present a feature list that puts Dwarf Fortress to shame, and promise an Alpha really soon, *and* expect money both now, and when it's released. Compared to the 4 years of fulltime DF production under the radar *without compensation*, and being one of several Bay 12 games (not to mention a huge precedessor - which surprisingly also had a smaller scope and feature list than what you are proposing) -- you seem to make Tarn Adams look like some programmer wannabe.

Which actually makes me think that it's not Tarn Adams that is inexperienced, and not able to judge his own abilities.

All that without any track record, and the only proof of programming skill similar to tons of libTCOD projects that were created on rec.games.roguelike.development for the past 10 years (most of them with a similar feature list). Not even a single 7DRL. So my question is:

What makes your project have any chances of success where so many others (countless during the lifetime of r.g.r.d) failed? What makes this different than any other vapor game? This is a serious question, because by opening a kickstarter project, you changed this from a hobby project into a serious pledge towards the people that donate money to you. It's a lot more serious responsibility (AFAIR looking at Kickstarter's terms it's also a legal liability) than just accepting donations. So either you have to have an ace up your sleeve (in which case I'm surprised you didn't pull it out yet), or you're inexperienced, not knowing what you get yourself into (and getting into a shitload ton of trouble).

Sorry for sounding so negative, but the moment you opened the kickstarter, things got real, and people deserve to have this kinds of questions answered.

What games have you made before?