Previewed - front page Gone Gold!

[StormcloudCreations]

A preview of the game was posted yesterday on the front page of the popular gaming site, Gone Gold, and the forums are doing some buzzing about it! Pretty cool!

[Psitticine]

Congrats!

[Rogue]

Well I was going to be a fence sitter on this one, but I'm too curious not to pass it up. I was going to wait for a demo, but that $10.00 off if ordered prior to November 17th was too enticing. Darn you Derek !

I was a little disappointed that I had to hear about it from www.gonegold.com instead of receiving word from Shrapnel. Bah, not a big deal though as I'm at the Shrapnel site enough that I'd have seen it eventually. And Gone Gold had a good write up about it so hopefully more folks will be drawn in...which would be a very good thing indeed !

One question though Derek, and another poster touched on this, in the shop front advertisement it states that fighters can get into trouble outside the arena. I know you talked (extensively) about the cool things you can do between fights...but are there events where your gladiators can get themselves into trouble (as in real life professional athletes)? If it spoils something in the game to say what, just say "yes". If it's not something in the game it makes little difference to me, but you may want to tell someone to re-phrase that section.

And to second Psitticine, congrats on your new release!

[Rogue]

Another quick question--will you be able to do "concurrent seasons". Meaning, can you keep playing indefinitely with a manager and his set of gladiators, or you hit a certain limit and have to start over? Sorry if that's been mentioned somewhere or discussed before, I'm still at work and I'm kinda getting fuzzy on all the things people say would be cool to have in this game as opposed to what's actually in it. Heh, thanks again!

[StormcloudCreations]

Hi Rogue, Thank you for your pre-order and kind words!

As far as being informed about the release, I'm not sure if Shrapnel has a mailing list they send out to previous customers. I don't think so.
E-mail me if you want updates on my stuff from now on, along with my blatherings (I still send things out occasionally to some previous loyal customers when I was a little indie to let them know i'm up to). My e-mail address on this forum works fine.

To answer your questions: Yes, warriors can get into "trouble" outside the arena, like personal difficulties (determined partially by their Intangibles rating, which basically determines things like "heart", grit and how "nice" they are as a person). Think: Mike Tyson or the current Kobe Bryant situation, if you've heard about that.

More severe offenses (this feature was just added and started testing today) can result in a warrior being suspended for awhile or you being fined an amount of gold, so it will make you consider whether your warrior is a jerk or not along with their actual skills in the equation.

And yes, the game will support unlimited consecutive seasons with the same roster (though there may be some turnover of warriors over time for various reasons). But there's no built-in hardcoded "limit" on seasons, like some of the EA games.

[Rogue]

Heh, very cool indeed! I like the PR aspect of it as well!!!

I can't wait for a demo so I can see what to expect when the finished product releases. Well heck, since I can't wait I guess I can't wait until the finished product comes out!