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From the first few hours, it looks like they will meet the kickstarter goal easily.  Already Greenlit.  New KS link in the OP.

Has a Youtube channel:  http://youtube.com/user/soltdr

Demo available!  (see KS page)

and check out some character creation:

Similarly, _Reassembly_ is a shameless rip of _Captain Forever_, but it's a bit more modern and polished.

There is also this _Habitat_ game, where you build stuff out of random space junk.

Before I got to the halfway point of LW, I would have been strongly in favor of playing it to the exclusion of vanilla.

As an Oldcom fan, I played vanilla for about 30 minutes before I started getting irritated, and about 3 hours before I was totally fed up.  LW made it not only playable for me, but really fun.

The problem is in the mid to late game, and I hear vanilla has a similar problem, LW just compounds it.  I think if you tweaked it to be an 8x or 16x speed Dynamic War campaign, it would probably be perfect.

But you can definitely play LW without playing vanilla.  If your friend is an oldcom fan, I wouldn't even recommend touching vanilla.  But if he likes faster paced games with simpler mechanics?  Maybe LW isn't for him.

Actually, I'm going to say that if this person needs to be "introduced" to the game at all and isnt immediately familiar with turn based tactics and other games of a similar nature, and they don't just jump on it willingly as soon as they hear that it exists and does not suck?  If you need to "convince" anyone of the games quality?  Long War is probably not for that person.

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Terra Nova for a buck.  One of the best sci-fi squad shooters ever made.  With power armor.  And squad progression.

Quote from: 10ebbor10 on September 01, 2015, 09:07:19 am

Out of canon, they might notbe. In cannon, who knows.

Few living beings are recognizable as anything in particular once they leave a cannon.

'Few' in what sense?  I'm going to hazard a guess that the majority of non-microscopic living beings whom have exited a cannon were entirely recognizable after they left.  Weighed against the total number of living beings, sure, there's only a few of them.


But he said In cannon, which probably means that they are unobserved like Schrodinger's cat.  They'd be in some sort of quantum superstate until you fire it/them.

I like to imagine that the aliens in NuCom that magically inserted from the sky were being fired out of a Heinlein-style cannon (or was that from Steakley's 'Armor'?) on an orbital troop ship.  Now that the TwoCommies are flying their own xenoship, maybe we can have our own human cannonballs.

But thats just my head canon.  (fakedit: SHIT, beaten to the headcanon pun)

Still avidly following the development.

As expected, I have needed to start working again and so don't have any time to actually play this or anything else.  But it sure was cool the couple of times I did fire it up! 

Really I just revel in the design of the thing, and think about how to apply the lessons in my daily life.  Well, maybe not daily.  But I'm sure I can find applications at least quarterly.

You, micronormal, and the URR dude are my favorite tweeters.  twitterers? twitterati? hmm.

Yeah, generally.  When it is done.  In a few years.

But it has already changed massively from its original premise (strategic warfare, commanding armies, conquering cultures) to now, and the author isn't sure if the final game will incorporate combat or not.. who KNOWS what it will actually be like when its done.

You're right though, the current plan is for a massive mystery conspiracy sort of game, which sounds super cool.  But it isn't a game yet.

Reminds me though, The Magic Candle.  Not a roguelike, but more similar to Ultima 3 / 4 or something.  Awesome puzzles.  Awesome quest.  Get some Dosbox and play it.

what?

URR is a scenery generator.  He just barely got NPCs in, but they dont do anything yet.  It's just a tech demo at this point, there is no game there.  You can explore it, but there isnt anything to /play/

Although it is awesome, and you should follow the development of it if you are interested in learning about those knowledge areas.

Caves of Qud has a great quest, though it isnt finished yet.  No real puzzle elements.  It is back in active development though, and you can follow it right here on this forum.

Cogmind has a quest in the sense that Nethack and Rogue have quests -- get to the end of the dungeon.  But it /does/ have much more story along the way, and is quite playable even in alpha.  Also right here on the forum.

Cogmind is probably better on the puzzle side, in that there are minigames like hacking, and finding optimal character builds and play styles is a mini-game / puzzle in of its self...

but I cant think of anything off the top of my head that incorporates Sokoban style levels.