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Hosted Projects - FS2 Required => Blue Planet => Topic started by: General Battuta on August 25, 2015, 02:15:41 pm
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Despite real life swamping the lot of us, Blue Planet is never forgotten. There's a huge batch of story content in the pipeline, and with luck I'll have news for you soon.
You'll get a glimpse at the events of Act 4, Act 5, and a conclusion of War in Heaven...although perhaps not the same conclusion you'd see in the game. If you want to play the ending before you read it, o beeple, start thinking hard! There may yet be spoilers adrift in months to come.
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Spoil us rotten!
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The only thing I don't like spoiled is my food!
Wait, hang on, I should probably put some more exceptions in there, for safety's sake.
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DLC starting from $14.95?
Can't wait!
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So.... this confirms that there won't be an actual release of acts 4 and 5, or I totally misread that?
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Not to immediately go for the most negative interpretation, but should we read anything into this from a campaign completion perspective? Is this an attempt to build hype for a release that's perhaps not too far away? Or, more worryingly, a hedge in case the next couple of acts aren't ever finished/aren't finished for quite some years?
[EDIT]Semi ninja'd by Luis.
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Since there hasn't been any sort of release since January 2013, I think the primary reason behind this is to build up a bit of hype and make fans excited again, which in turn motivates the team.
No, this isn't meant to replace an Act 4 release. We're just all in a lull ATM. A lot of real-life things going on. Battuta has a cunning plan to alleviate that some.
also baruttuta come back to #bp pls
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Weren't acts 1 and 2 released in August 2010? So far still a longer wait between then and Tenebra than Tenebra and Act 4.
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Let's not forget that there's been work on the already-released acts (voice acting for 1&2, dreamscape tutorials for 3, talk of other balance changes) as well as the unreleased ones, including at least some work on AoA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVfNIrRtTmU).
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Yeah, that totally feels like feature-creep to me. I think it's high time we make a class action suit against the BP team because this is absolutely unforgivable for a kickstarter pro....
wait, wrong thread.
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I haven't managed to get my next book or the voice acting for BP2 done. (The voice work is so close to finished it's driving me mad.) I'm on contract for two more novels. Realistically, Act 4/5 is far away.
I don't care about hype or hedges or whatever. I do care about telling this story.
The most important part of BP is the community of brilliant people talking and thinking about the story. I want to give that community some fresh meat.
And we're not actually talking direct BP spoilers. If this works out, it'll be a sequel to Morrigan in the Sunglare - so a few key differences from the BPverse.
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Oh so not something like the BP lore small fictions that we got in WiH, but an actual short story? Battuta, you spoil us with such delicious gifts!
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And we're not actually talking direct BP spoilers. If this works out, it'll be a sequel to Morrigan in the Sunglare - so a few key differences from the BPverse.
Ohhhh. YES PLEASE! I would love that.
(Random aside: I showed Morrigan to my wife, and she read it, and then she started asking me to play through WiH with her watching so she could get more of the backstory. Needless to say, she didn't have to ask twice.. :D)
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I haven't managed to get my next book or the voice acting for BP2 done. (The voice work is so close to finished it's driving me mad.) I'm on contract for two more novels. Realistically, Act 4/5 is far away.
As much as this is beautiful, I'd rather BattutaGeneral get the voice acting done instead TBH.
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I just can't find the time and mental energy. I've got two
books, two steady girlfriends, work for Destiny, and a lot of blog posts to write for the book launch. If I could just get a spare week or two... :(
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I just can't find the time and mental energy. I've got two
books, two steady girlfriends, work for Destiny, and a lot of blog posts to write for the book launch. If I could just get a spare week or two... :(
No worries Batt; were it so important it be done ASAP people would pay you for it. Besides can imagine how full your plate is at the moment with your launch round the corner as you say (will actually be getting that soon now I think about it :yes:).
All the best with those next books btw!
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I just can't find the time and mental energy. I've got two
books, two steady girlfriends, work for Destiny, and a lot of blog posts to write for the book launch. If I could just get a spare week or two... :(
No wonder you're knackered!!! LOL!
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If this works out, it'll be a sequel to Morrigan in the Sunglare - so a few key differences from the BPverse.
I've looked around, and I've seen a few other references to this by other people, but I can't find anything like this. Can someone give me a link and an explanation as to what this is?
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Here you go:
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/dickinson_03_14/
General Battuta = Seth Dickenson
It's a great short story set in the BP universe, at the end of act 2.
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Here you go:
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/dickinson_03_14/
General Battuta = Seth Dickenson
It's a great short story set in the BP universe, at the end of act 2.
Small correction: While the universe of Morrigan bears strong resemblance to the one in BP, it is not the same. For example, all references to FS have been purged from those stories.
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Here you go:
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/dickinson_03_14/
General Battuta = Seth Dickenson
It's a great short story set in the BP universe, at the end of act 2.
I knew Battuta was an author but I didn't know his name until now; and then it clicked, he did the story for EP 441 of Escape Pod! All this time and I didn't realize.
http://escapepod.org/tag/seth-dickinson/
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Despite real life swamping the lot of us, Blue Planet is never forgotten. There's a huge batch of story content in the pipeline, and with luck I'll have news for you soon.
You'll get a glimpse at the events of Act 4, Act 5, and a conclusion of War in Heaven...although perhaps not the same conclusion you'd see in the game. If you want to play the ending before you read it, o beeple, start thinking hard! There may yet be spoilers adrift in months to come.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! I was never happier to randomly misclick a bookmark and end up on this forum again after many months! This is such fantastic news that I actually squeed a bit! Love to death everything you guys put out so far! Hell, to me, WiH is still the best written piece of fan-created entertainment in the history of gaming.
Here's hoping my head-canon for Acts 4 and 5 matches up to some of the incoming spoilers :p. Good luck with everything you are all working on!!!
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Heard back from Clarkesworld — they want structural edits on the first half but are willing to buy if I pull them off. (That's what I get for writing three braided nonlinear narratives.) If I can scrape together the brainspace around the book launch, I'll try to get them done for you guys.
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Structural edits round one complete!
Sent it off to MY COOL FRIEND JASON SCOTT to get his thoughts.
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Woop woop.
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Looks like we're a go. I'll let you guys know when I'm sure what issue of Clarkesworld it'll be in.