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Offline jjscott

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Hello Hard Light Productions,

This is the very first time I post to these forums, so my apologies in advance for any breach in protocol.

I just wanted to let the members of the FreeSpace community know that Revival Productions has launched its Kickstarter campaign for Overload, a six-degree of freedom shooter. Here's a link to the page: http://kck.st/1o2XmtY

Revival Productions is Mike Kulas (founder of Volition), Matt Toschlog (who founded Parallax with Mike), and former Volitionites Luke Schneider (aka Radian Games) and Chris Claflin.  A few of us at Volition are also helping out, including Adam Pletcher and myself.

I'm not sure how much cross-over there is between Descent and FreeSpace players, but I thought that maybe you'd be interested in learning more about this game.

Thank you for your consideration, and I wish you all the best!

Kind regards,
Jason Scott
Writer, FreeSpace 2

 

Offline General Battuta

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Hi Jason! Really awesome to see you here.

 

Offline jjscott

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Hey Seth, I just sent you an email. :)

 

Offline niffiwan

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Woah! So that's what Mike's "secret project" was. It looks very cool, thanks for posting about it!

(and you've got Dan doing the music as well, and yourself doing the story, very awesome!  My biggest issue now is stopping my enthusiasm running away with me)

ps: thanks for supporting Linux :)
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Offline General Battuta

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Seriously, it's like a dream team reunion. First Homeworld, now this!

 
Hehe, yeah some people over in gaming discussions noticed it alright. There's quite a number of descent lover here.

To quote The E :

Also, this is probably the most HLP-baity Kickstarter ever....



A pleasure to see you there sir. :)

 

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I literally Fry meme'd when I saw this Kickstarter. While I was at work. Got some strange looks.

(That'd be the "Shut up and take my Money!" one)
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I'm not sure how much cross-over there is between Descent and FreeSpace players
I'm going to go with "a lot" considering how rapidly some of us backed it...
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<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

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<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

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<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.

 

Offline jjscott

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LOL, that's great!  I searched before I posted but I completely missed that discussion. 

Many thanks to all of you for your support!  :)


Hehe, yeah some people over in gaming discussions noticed it alright. There's quite a number of descent lover here.

To quote The E :

Also, this is probably the most HLP-baity Kickstarter ever....



A pleasure to see you there sir. :)

 

Offline AdmiralRalwood

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I searched before I posted but I completely missed that discussion.
Unfortunately the forum search is, uh, more-or-less completely useless, so no worries there.

Here's hoping you guys reach your funding goal!
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schrödinbug (noun) - a bug that manifests itself in running software after a programmer notices that the code should never have worked in the first place.

When you gaze long into BMPMAN, BMPMAN also gazes into you.

"I am one of the best FREDders on Earth" -General Battuta

<Aesaar> literary criticism is vladimir putin

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. :P
<MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".
(the very next day)
<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again
<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."
<MageKing17> **** ME
<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID
<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.
<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.
<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"
(...)
<MageKing17> so
<MageKing17> more than two hours
<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion
<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!
* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.

 

Offline Dragon

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Nice to see people from :v: on HLP. First a new Descent, maybe you'll make a spiritual successor of FS2 next? :) Mission-based space sims are coming back, so it'd be nice to have a well written entry in this category (not to mention on that comes with a mission editor :) ).

I'm watching Overload, but see the other thread about it for my concerns over design philosophy.

 

Offline Firesteel

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Saw some info about this a while ago. Cool to see some of the Descent/FreeSpace team doing something again! There is definitely quite a bit of crossover in the fanbases from everything I've seen. I'm glad to see 6DOF coming back, especially with you guys working on it again!
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Offline Goober5000

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:welcome:

Great to see you here, Jason!  We were all delighted that you sat down to chat with General Battuta about the FreeSpace storyline a few years ago.  The storyline is probably one of the three principal reasons (along with ease of modding and the source code release) that the game is still played as much as it is.

Overload looks awesome.  Count me in.
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Offline rubixcube

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:welcome:

Great to see you here, Jason!  We were all delighted that you sat down to chat with General Battuta about the FreeSpace storyline a few years ago.  The storyline is probably one of the three principal reasons (along with ease of modding and the source code release) that the game is still played as much as it is.

Overload looks awesome.  Count me in.
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Yeah, I think it deserves a highlight.
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Woah :D! It makes me thinking about all the uber cool Descent III levels I enjoyed as a kid. It reminds me charging my Fusion against final boss, smashing robots with Black Shark missile, and epic outro.

And yes. I want to experiance all of this again! Goodluck with Overload, guys. I wish I could contribute, but... I'm broke :P. So far I can say that I can't wait to play this!
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Hello, Jason! My name is Bryan See. I'm from Malaysia, currently studying at a university. How are you?

I hope you are fine. More than a decade ago, I played Descent 2 and Descent 3, and FreeSpace 2, but forgotten. Now I'm playing FS2 Open, and I'm working on its mod named Shattered Stars.
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Well that's a nice turn up.  Checking the page now and inb4 asking for FS3 plot

* Colonol Dekker googles overload kickstarter


I see the link now :lol:

People have really gone to town on the multi thousand packages. :yes:
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Offline Bobboau

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I'll always have your guys backs for stuff like this, and you have my $150 for this.

(BTW, as a side note. When done with this, should Revival Productions decide to make a completely new game about humans and a race of desert dwelling aliens who humans had originally been at war with that formed an alliance against a race of super-death-aliens long ago, who cut off earth from the rest of the universe, blew up the desert alien's home world, and blew up a star the second time they were encountered. You know, a completely new IP unrelated to any existing IP that is... something along those lines. You would have my axe and bow and money for that as well. possibly an order of magnitude more so than this time.)

(ALSO BTW, just FYI I am on the Linux platform, I see you are supporting me :yes: )
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