I should really play it more, but I have been reading instead… The game is about reading, anyway!
All this talking got me to reinstall KODP on my tablet and get the Guide of Glorantha from Chaosium.
Lots of reading!
I won’t comment too much about this but when you get to play Six Ages, they really did some interesting stuff with the setting. I guess it is fitting of the whole enterprise’s philosophy.
I have an incredible respect for David Dunham. It feels to me like he is one of those incredibly smart people that know that showing it isn’t the interesting part. Trying to instead push others further is the true reward.
Really looking forward to both to see by myself “what they did with the setting” and the curve balls from David and co will be probably throwing in the quests etc.
David posted a development AAR on Six Ages
https://blog.sixages.com/index.php/2018/07/30/making-six-ages-for-ios-a-retrospective/
With an explanation of why the game didn’t come to PC right away, the woes of creating story games and how you develop - successfully - a videogame without ever meeting most of the team in person.
In Six Ages news:
–Its on sale, just three dollars off at $6.99, and I’m not sure for how long. I’m grabbing it now.
–The Three Moves Ahead podcast gang spend a good lot of time talking about why they love it.
Very nice episode. I thought that they introduced very well the game’s world at the beginning, too.
The game is still consistantly ruining my sleep cycles, if I do the mistake of launching it before going to bed.
Ride like the Wind (the first chapter) will finally release for PC and Mac on October 17th.
https://blog.sixages.com/index.php/2019/09/25/windows-and-mac-release-date/
Hopefully Ride like the Wind doesn’t suffer from the unbearably abysmal UI of the KoDP mobile port. If it can overcome that last hurdle one of the most unique and interesting games will finally get a (PC) sequel.
What was wrong with the UI? I didn’t play KoDP (nor probably will I play SA) on PC, but I have them both for mobile and love them absolutely to death.
Yes I don’t quite understand that criticism either. Ride like the Wind sure improved over KoDP, be it because of its revised priorities or clearer UI. But I never fought against it in either game.
I own the original KoDP.
When the mobile port was released on Steam I bought it again because I think it’s an exceptional game (also it’s cheap and doesn’t really age as a game).
Despite buying the game out of fan-support I found the port’s UI so insufferable I refunded it. Compared to the original PC version UI and control are extremely cumbersome and lacking in functionality. I found it actively painful to use.
Almost all the negative Steam reviews (and even lots of the positive ones) specifically mention the UI and bad quality port as well so I don’t feel these are the ramblings of a madman.
I’m a mobile Luddite and have not played Ride like the Wind yet. Maybe it really improved on the first game’s mobile version. With the mobile version being front and center for the developer I’m just worried it didn’t.
I’m pretty sure the UI is almost identical, at least on iOS. I’ll be surprised if that isn’t also the case for the PC port. But to be honest, I also find the UI of the original kodp to be almost identical to the updated version. I think the UI is fine, btw
It’s great that Six Ages is finally coming out for PC. I’ve been following it for years, hoping it would be coming out for PC or android, so I could finally play it. Last month I finally caved and bought an iPad, so it figures it’s releasing on steam now. I’ll probably buy it there, too.
PC version is out on Steam now!
Man, I love these games so much.
Still no word on android port?
Nope.
Oh, you can purchase the soundtrack on Steam… Too bad Valve is stupid and won’t let you buy a soundtrack without buying the game first. And because stupidity is contagious, especially amongst greedy twarts, of course that horror GOG also requires you to buy a game to get a soundtrack.
Dang, if they had released it a day later!