Bay 12 Games Forum

Let me start by saying Chuckelfish is really f#cking up. Now let me add to that by saying it's really become painful to be a developer. There are a lot of really repugnant human beings out there with nothing but vitriol and hate to spew. I have been working with @10 different devs in the last 18 months and most of them are really good people who just want to make gamers happy. Yet not a single day goes by without them getting messages, public and private, saying things like "Your game is sh!t! It's a ripoff of Qbert(or whatever ridiculous)! How dare you charge $5 for a game that has bugs in it! You should kill yourself! I could make a better game in my sleep! You must be retarded to think this is good. Try making something original!" Etc etc etc  Of course all have every other word misspelled, include obscenities all over the place. It seems silly, but all of this really hurts people. The worst part is the people who write this honestly think that the world needs their opinion. They have never accomplished anything in their lives, yet they try to attack others who are brave enough to share publicly. It's an epidemic and it leads to devs who really stop liking their audience, just because of the vocal minority who bully reasonable posters. It is having an effect on the industry and it's not good.

That being said, I am and always will be a customer advocate and I believe in providing excellent service and value even above making a profit. If doing the right thing means you went out of business then you obviously weren't doing well. Chuckelfish has damaged their image now and hurt their future income. They haven't just devalued their own brand as developers, but they hurt those whose games they publish as well. The two publishers I am talking with are protecting their good name like a mother badger and wouldn't even consider putting their name on my game if it wasn't at least as good as their own or a good value for fans. That's respect! That's good business. Not this Chuckelfish sh!t.

There is a news ticker with randomized news reports as well as ones that affect elements of the game. Llamas might now be added as an easter egg

Ok so how realistic this game is expected to be?
As in who will supply the weapons as when arms dealing is concerned mostly russia and USA coems to mind and its an even smaller scale when you play as a small time private arms peddler who likely won't get his hands on export variants of T-72s... like ever.

Or will it be a more "alternate history" setting where PMCs can roll into let's say Poland and order 12 PT-91Ex assuming their standing with Poland and cash balance is high enough.

Most of this information is available in the other posts already but I am happy to sum it up for you. There are 10 supplying nations that a player buys from, these are the current 10 top arms trading nations in the world     
1       Russia    
2     United States    
3     China    
4     France    
7     United Kingdom    
5     Germany    
6     Italy    
8     Israel    
9     Spain       
10     Sweden

Ukraine was actually #10 but I removed it for the sake of gameplay since they mostly only export Radar and electronics equipment and the small arms that they export are the same as Russia and the US. Sweden on the otherhand has some really cool weapons. Realism isn't a super high priority in a game because it's not very fun. In fact when you design a game for the first time you get to experience a life changing event(for gamers) where you very clearly see that adding or removing a realistic element almost always directly impacts the fun experienced by the player. You need to include enough to create immersion but remove enough to be fun. In my experience it is best to include realism in the background and elements not under player control and let the player break reality with their actions. It is a fantasy they want to believe in so they are able to avoid breaking the illusion. Deep down we all want to be powerful and have the rules apply to everyone but us, so when designing a game it's important to play to that psychological desire in limited doses.

The short answer, it's set roughly 10 years in the future so it's not necessary to make it alternate reality, but it doesn't necessarily preclude the concept that it could be. If I do my job well, you won't ask that question while playing.

One thing I was thinking of, was you were talking about randomized games, so you could have a variety of names that it picks from at random.

I like that idea but I'm not certain that it adds anything.

Quick Question Will we get access to WMDs? I know post-Soviet collapse a few nukes where on the market along with Ballistic Subs, and Saran and Anthrax are produce able to sell.

There are three categories of items for sale; Arms, Vehicles, and Intelligence/Strategic. The third category includes very rare and incredibly expensive one of a kind items that the player only gains access to after reaching the highest level of trust and respect with a supplying country. In fact, it may take a few games before you even encounter one , let alone all of them. The game has a lot of random elements in an attempt to make each game play different and require different as well as often shifting strategies by the player. Further adding to the complexity is that different phases of the game will require a different focus by the player, also affected by their performance up to that point and the overall global climate(situation, not weather). The game makes this nest of complex actions and effects manageable by having a somewhat simple interface with just 6-7 menus and a dozen main actions.

The first 20 minutes of the game seems laughably simple. Within 30-40 minutes the player encounters their first tricky situation and then feels confident after overcoming it. At 60-75 minutes the game is starting to get hectic and intense. If the player reaches the late game state in 2-3 hours the game is very different and self doubt takes over. A victory is an even more haunting experience than a loss because you will wonder how much better you could have done if any of the 90+ decisions you made were different.

As usual, these are great BK! The Jatimatic wouldn't be a good choice anyway with so few of them having been made and most of them have been taken out of circulation. It is thought that nearly half of them ended up in criminal hands due to their exquisite concealment possibilities. Still, I loved it as a kid and preferred it's style over the Uzi and definitely over the Mac-10. As you said earlier, too bad Saab Bofors mostly only makes missiles now. I love all of their weapons and Saab can do no wrong with warfare in my eyes. The Saab Viggen was one of the finest Interceptor designs of the 70s-80s and should have been pursued for modern evolution.

Awesome job BlindKitty! I love it. Definitely including all of those and when I include the AutoRevolver I have to include the Rhino as well

HopFlash, That's the idea. I will be including every iconic movie or real videogame weapon I can think of to make the gun "nuts" happy. Also, those are the weapons that sell really well in the third world countries.