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For a long time, we planned for Exploit: Zero Day, our social hacking puzzle game currently in closed alpha, to use a "free-to-play" or "freemium" approach to money. Not anymore.
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How much control do you have over what happens to your character in a tabletop RPG? Can people do things to your character without your permission? Do you want them to?
In most mainstream tabletop roleplaying games, you control your character's actions but not what happens to them. You choose how they feel about events, but not the other effects. A combination of the rules and the game master's judgment decides whether your character gets scared, hurt, or killed.
There's a different way.
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Hello! Gregory here. Almost a year ago we released our dark, funny, satirical game Ossuary. It's a story about descending into a static underworld, talking to the people there, and corrupting them with sins that are really virtues.
A year on, it's a good time to look back and talk about how the game was made and received. In short: those who played it seem to have really liked it and understood where it was coming from, but it hasn't had the exposure, popularity, or sales that we wanted from it.
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We've been selling our game Ossuary for $5 for almost a year now. We just set its price to $10 at each major storefront where it's available.
Why are we increasing price on a year-old game? Because we underpriced it to begin with. Let me elaborate. ...
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From: KernelPop
Subject: join the fight
sk3tch,
you know about samsara, right? security company i worked for for a few months? they dont deserve to exist, they call themselves security experts but just help more people die.
im out of there. they screwed me over. i'm out tons of money, ...
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The only perfect computer security setup is one even the creator can't access.
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Our work-in-progress, Exploit: Zero Day, will be a social, online game. It'll let you roleplay as a hacker with other players and even interact with the game's characters on the forums. The kind of community that forms will be essential to the game's success.
At the same time, the Internet can be an abusive place, especially in gaming spheres, and we're producing a game themed around "hacking" and computer security intrusion that is attempting to provide compelling dilemmas. There's a definite risk of our community becoming hostile, toxic, or downright dangerous.
Part of our vision statement at Future Proof Games is "audacious compassion." How do we create a community that encourages audacious compassion while being fun and financially self-sustaining? We're still working out the details, but here's our thoughts at the moment.
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We're proud to release a new little game: "Awaiting the End." This is a free GM-less tabletop roleplaying game where you play people trapped in a Place awaiting a Doom and you tell stories about how you got there. It requires minimal preparation and the rules fit on ...
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In April, Gregory gave a presentation for the local Charlotte GameDev Meetup group. The talk was called "Designing a Game - Concept to Polish," and it goes through the process of designing a game. No programming, no technologies discussed: just how to turn an idea into mechanics, rules, and challenges. ...
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We've put out our first update to Ossuary in a while! This is version 1.7.0, and it's got a single change, requested by Arseny on our Greenlight discussion board:
Changelog:
