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Just curious. Any news on the new game?

Hollander wrote:


It was paused, because I am re-thinking some things... you could have big surprises soon, bigger than you could expect. Or maybe not, who knows

(besides, i am having some personal problems...)

neko wrote:

sorry to hear that. Good luck then.

Hollander wrote:



likewise neko...I hope everything turns out ok for you.

neko wrote:



Anything goes as long it's car combat game...

Let Mad Max ride again

Hollander wrote:


It isn't... do you have any proposals from this point of view?

neko wrote:


When I find the time to write up something serious I'll send you an E-mail.

Cheers,

Hollander

neko wrote:


CAR WARS! I anything about it can be found around...

Gugliandalf wrote:


Steve Jackson games probably won't like it when Neko runs a copy. Although there is a yahoo group offering Play by web sofware for Car wars based on the VASL (or VASSAL) software.

Hollander wrote:


Yep. While we could lawfully make a clone and give it another name, I don't have any projects to do that.

Hollander wrote:


here is another guess:
A Merchant of Venus game? space trading and exploration game with some combat?

neko wrote:
It has been over a year. I was wondering if this had been scrapped or shelved or just plain forgotten.

Zarby wrote:

I assume neko's been busy with other things (such as various moves). It's been three weeks since he last logged in to the site.

"Who's flying this thing?" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZhYcPuGIRw

i'm really curious

car wars would be really nice
my dream would be some kind of fantasy arena whre u can create a little team of creatures and fight with others ( a football fantasy would be also nice ), or a sort of field battle managment ( like warhammer or warhammer 40 k miniatures wargames , but played on line )

pier. wrote:


Blood Bowl is already available online... 10 bucks, IIRC.

I'd love Car Wars too, but it would take some pretty hefty modification bo make it playable in the same way as VP or AoW. It's essentially a real-time. Plus SJG has threatened to sue anyone who tries.

I'd like to see a tactical wargame a'la ASL. Of course it would be even cooler if it was fantasy ASL...

Arena gladiatorial combat! We already have an arena and characters..
a gladiator design screen... a variable pricing system...

That's it! Remember , you read it here 1st!

Hollander wrote:


arena with teams or 1 vs 1
turn based and simultaneous as VP
golden pieces as budget
u can use the money to get armour, weapons, melee weapons ecc
exp to pump up ur gladiators alive
add the possibility to choose the character between several races with bonus/weakness and bum!

pier. wrote:


Yes that's the idea.
Orders for your gladiator should include movement. Fighting style for that turn: Defense only (Parry, dodge, shield blocks no attacks but a bonus to defence) Counter attack> Defend 1st then attack ONLY when attacked. a bonus to defence and a penalty to attacks.
All out attack (double the number of attacks but a penalty to defence

Specify prefered target area, special attacks like disarm, shield bash,
trip. Pommel,

Two handed weapons, two weapon styles, large shield small shield etc..armor slowing dodges and attacks. critical hits...bleeding wounds doing damage over time.. Stamina, strength,skill and armor
ideas are brewing..

hei Holl let's write our ideas about and exchange them in emails
my email
pier27@katamail.com
then maybe we can get something of really nice taking the best ideas, and then send the project to neko, if he likes it maybe he can put it on the screen

for example
what do u think about to keep the "inertial speed" ?
clearly with some differences respect to VP
it should be "shortest" ( or slower ) respect to VP, and to depend from the speed of the previous turn, and with the tendece to reduce itself ( gravity ) if the charcter doesn't keep to mantain that run intensity

i think this would have nice applications in an arena game

imagine a Goblin ( low resistence in taking damages , but high agility = manouvers )
he makes what he wants moving on the battlefield, u donno never what he is going to do, but if u get him easy u kill him ( as a light fighter in VP )
imagine a Minotaur ( high resistance and strong, but low agility = manouvers )
maybe he is running fast to charge an enemy, miss the target, and makes the public to scream "Olè" like in a spanish corrida when he goes over... he will need to do some efforts to invert his motion for the next round ( as an heavy fighter in VP )