Volodymyr Ezhov who was involved in the creation of Alexander (RTS/RPG from 2004), Cossacks 2 (RTS, 2005), Heroes of Annihilated Empires (RTS/RPG, 2006) and STALKER: Clear Sky (2008) was killed in Ukraine. Loki from Call of Pripyat has (a younger version of) his face.
STALKER 2 drama: Russian fans are blackmailing the devs, threatening to leak a bunch of game-related material unless their demands are met:
* GSC apologizes to the common gamer from Russia and Belarus.
* The game is translated to Russian.
* The leaker is unbanned from discord.
Douglas Goodall.
Game designer, writer for Morrowind.
Has frequent disagreements with his seniors at Bethesda.
Quits.
Posts on forums in-character as Jobasha the Khajiit.
Returns 20 years later to make Morrowind mods (AFFresh on Nexus).
Four facts, no narrative:
There is a hotel in Turkey decorated with huge Azura statues.
Bethesda knows about it and is confused.
In TES 3 mod community, placing too many statues is seen as an indicator of poor technique.
There is a Meridia Beach Hotel not far from the Azura one.
Friends, “CRPG” means “a role playing game on a computer.” It doesn’t mean “a game with top-down camera.”
Examples of CRPGs:
The Elder Scrolls 1
The Elder Scrolls 2
The Elder Scrolls 3
Dungeon and Dragon whatever
"The Chosen's Way" is a fairly evolved attempt to recreate Fallout 2 using the New Vegas tech. Progress slowed down after the lead developer's parents' house in Irpin was destroyed by a missile. But it's not cancelled: he is still posting updates. Pic 2: San Francisco.
The Institute for the Development of the Internet allocated 260 million rubles (4,3 mil USD) to a studio in Novosibirsk to develop an action-RPG about the Polish occupation of Russia (1610-1612).
Fallout: Sonora devs have been making these tiny first-person prototypes (not games), exploring various FO locations (Cathedral, Tanker, Vault 13). Two of them were made in Unity, this one in Godot. Are they planning on joining the prestigious Retro FPS club? It's a mystery
Mechanics-heavy immersive RPG by Daggerfall devs.
* In development since 2019.
* Realistically scaled cities.
* Dialogue mechanics seem to resemble Morrowind.
* Mass Crowd system: thousands of NPCs on screen.
* Daggerfall-inspired mouse-swing combat (optional).
Ambitious.
fallout 2 is the horniest big RPG ever made and sex work is a legit career choice allowing one to accumulate unlimited money as soon as you reach the third town. u can also gay marry a farmer and sex a super mutant. and get publicly made fun of for being a mutant-fucker
Interest check. What if The Lord of the Rings characters were Soviet gopniks? Back in 2006 the creators of War Thunder collaborated with the philosopher “Goblin” Puchkov to make “Homies and the Ring.” This runs on the early version of tech that would eventually power War Thunder.
Fallout 2D: Vault Dweller Adventures. An indie side-scroller in development. Promised to feature the SPECIAL system, items, traits. Feels sort of like Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project, but instead of pig cops we are shooting ghouls and instead of NYC it's a radioactive garbage dump.
New version of Fallout: The Frontier in development!
~ The NCR main quest is to be removed.
~ Focus on polish, optimization, general cleanliness.
~ Many existing lore, gameplay issues to be corrected.
~ The team is looking for new members.
Hi all, we have posted a new announcement in the discord server discussing the new in progress rework! Please join the server for all current discussion. The frontier is back and we’re gonna do it right this time around - tgspy
Ice-T talks about his experience recording a Dungeons and Dragons audio book.
Every word is made up. Everyone talks like Yoda. Pegasusses and Pegassi. It comes with a map. Motherfuckers live in places that don't exist.
My audience hates Baldur’s Gate.
Loves Fallout, “Goblin” Puchkov, The Age of Decadence, Ukrainian neu-FYAD.
Same, I guess. But please change your mind about Baldur’s Gate.
Digging deeper into esoteric Fallout Online culture. What Remains is a long-abandoned attempt at making a chapter-based single player game on this engine. Notable for using pre-rendered backgrounds. FOnline supports Infinity engine-style graphics. Of course it does.
Mother of God. I found a classic Fallout fan game that isn't Slav-made. Unfortunately, it's just three locations. It's called Ardent's mod. Someone please find Ardent and ask for their 23andMe.
My prof: Race is a social construct
Me: excuse me Sir, but Slavs (People of the Word) landed on Earth 500,000 years ago in an ancient spacecraft, establishing relations with existing human empires (Finland, China and Egypt).
My prof (1000 years in akademiya): xaxaxa tak kurwa
My prof: Race is a social construct
Me: 🙋♀️ Yakub was a black scientist who lived 6,600 years ago and began the creation of the white race. He is said to have done this through a form of selective breeding which is referred to as "grafting"
My prof (decades in academia): idk
Berezin's old art (pic 1) was oversaturated with too many unnecessary elements making the image hard to read. Glad to see he is changing this for the New Blood game (pic 2).
Isometric Fallout 4 mock-up by Chris Bischoff. *inhales, concentrates to produce the shittiest imaginable take* This doesn't look as good as Fallout 1.
An RPG where a team of UN-sanctioned Time Commandoes travels to various divergent realities undoing the damage done by ultrareactionary Russian time-travelers.
Modding lore: Ozone made a Fallout 3 version of his Kazakhstan Fallout. He was still working on it as of March 2022. Doesn’t look like it’s available for download unfortunately.
Skywind Vivec.
The good: actually resembles a city instead of a series of rooms. Looks authentic to the original concept art. I see two open domes and a ship.
The bad: I’m irrationally upset about their version of the ordinator armor because it was my favorite in Morrowind.
@pahrislv
There is no reason to give in: Russian audiences are unmonetizable, toxic and hopeless: the leaker is supposedly an active combatant. He has no self-awareness and seems to think of himself as a victim. Finally, leaking an old dev build probably won't impact sales much or at all.
The individual who made the first ever slavjank is a physicist who worked as a programmer at a lab in Kharkiv. He spent 20 years amassing esoteric knowledge of ancient Aryans (as well as Kabbalah, Tarot) in order to create “a training machine for the mind” (a turn-based RPG).
Update on GAMERS:
Goblin Puchkov (Planet Alcatraz) is against the coup.
Girkin Strelkov (Diablo gamer) is against the coup.
Sergei Luk'yanenko (the Night Watch series of RPGs) is against.