Alan Pavlish joins Wasteland team

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After already adding Wasteland designer Michael Stackpole, InXile has further expanded the team working on the new Wasteland project with Wasteland programmer/producer/designer Alan Pavlish.<blockquote>More good #Wasteland news! The original producer, programmer and designer Alan Pavlish has also joined the team.</blockquote>The only name missing from the original core team is Ken St. Andre, though I do believe he retired from videogame making.
 
Good time to get back into videogame making. If he hasn't touched any gamedev stuff since back then, he is a perfect candidate for bringing old school into the game, as he does not know any other. :p
 
Whatever doubts I had are long gone now. This will actually happen! :clap:
 
Like Stackpole I think St. Andre was always an RPG, novel and gamebook writer foremost, and he's still around, so I see no reason why he shouldn't be roped in, by force if necessary.
 
Well, he's 65, and working on a videogame is a lot more involved, work-intensive a project than writing a book, generally. So I just don't know if he's interested. Would be cool though.
 
OH MY GOD THIS IS GETTING BETTER EVERY FUCKING DAY.

Also: How do you 'tards not know what Kickstarter is? Shee-it. How're those rocks you're sleeping under? Comfy?
 
this is honestly the most excited I've been about gaming news since... well, I can't remember last time I was this excited.

however, I'm not going to hope for this to be some kind of holy grail. there's absolutely nothing that guarantees they will get a good game together out of this. if they even get the funding to try. but on paper, it almost looks too good to be true. they have my $50 at least.

I will laugh my ass off and wet my pants if this turns out to be a first-person rpg with real-time combat though. I won't even get mad, it'd just be too funny to get upset about.
 
Yea, but it's highly unlikely. Real time is still possible, but first person? That's going to cost a lot money.
 
imagine, just for a min, even if it is unrealistic, they finish a top down, turn based RPG with mature/great writing. And it outsells Call of Duty and Skyrim together.

Imagine ... the possibilities.


Hey. One can still dream right ?

*note to my self. Lexx never ever sleeps.
 
They can make an isometric turn based RPG and release it as a PC only title on steam, anything else would cost a fuckton of money which they can't seem to afford. The rights to patch a XBLA game alone costs something like 40000 dollars. Steam is the way to go for these guys.
 
aenemic said:
I will laugh my ass off and wet my pants if this turns out to be a first-person rpg with real-time combat though. I won't even get mad, it'd just be too funny to get upset about.
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What? Why would they do that? You are missing the most fundamental aspect of this thing:

They are not catering to the largest audience or a publisher. They are catering to the people who pledge money. The people who pledge money are pledging to the already-agreed-upon project, which will be introduced as Fargo is already speaking of. Do none of you seriously fucking know how Kickstarter works? Jesus fuck at least do a little research before posting. Anyway, yeah, it helped fund my band's last record. It's a good thing. It will work, it IS working, this will happen.

No telling it will be "good" but it will happen as advertised, I guarantee. That's the whole nature of Kickstarter. You get what you pay for.
 
TwinkieGorilla said:
It will work, it IS working, this will happen.
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I like your certainty, and I hope it will happen, but for now we have no idea how large audience there is for this, how many are willing to pledge money, how are gaming sites going to cover it, how much money are they going to ask for...

Double Fine asked for 400K and got 2 Million, however point and click linear adventure is much easier to make than huge nonlinear RPG (even if it is 2D turnbased), and InXile do not have the goodwill that DoubleFine have.

I really hope it will happen, but...."hope for the best, expect the worst".
 
Crni Vuk said:
*note to my self. Lexx never ever sleeps.
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Had an epic Tiberian Sun battle going on. Also had to wait for HL1 mod Cry of Fear. Now I am deadly tired.
 
Paul_cz said:
TwinkieGorilla said:
It will work, it IS working, this will happen.
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I like your certainty, and I hope it will happen, but for now we have no idea how large audience there is for this, how many are willing to pledge money, how are gaming sites going to cover it, how much money are they going to ask for...

Double Fine asked for 400K and got 2 Million, however point and click linear adventure is much easier to make than huge nonlinear RPG (even if it is 2D turnbased), and InXile do not have the goodwill that DoubleFine have.

I really hope it will happen, but...."hope for the best, expect the worst".
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Yo, dawg.

But I'm not arguing about whether or not it will get funded (though I'm predicting it will, and very quickly) but that it will not stray from the mission statement. It kind of can't. That's the nature of Kickstarter. If you don't get what you ordered it's not on you, it's on the person you ordered from to make good.
 
TwinkieGorilla said:
Yo, dawg.

But I'm not arguing about whether or not it will get funded (though I'm predicting it will, and very quickly) but that it will not stray from the mission statement. It kind of can't. That's the nature of Kickstarter. If you don't get what you ordered it's not on you, it's on the person you ordered from to make good.
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but what exactly is the mission statement? either I've missed something, or it hasn't been said out loud that Wasteland 2 will have the same sort of gameplay Wasteland did. it's what we expect, but Fargo's plans for it might be something different.

either way, I was only half-joking with the first-person shooter bit, as chances are low for that to happen. but still, it'd be a pretty hilarious situation.
 
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