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October 27th, 2005, 06:28 PM
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Re: What Kind Of Games Would You Like To See Made?
Magic Realm Avalon Hill, 1978
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October 30th, 2005, 11:15 AM
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Re: What Kind Of Games Would You Like To See Made?
No, we couldnt find enough overlap between my abilities and their needs. Im too paladin to pull a check that way
(at least from any company I like)  . Maybe someday I will be able to fill a need here. No bridges burned.
Magic Realm was a fantastic board game which I feel was just timed badly. It beat the restrictions of board games by coming up with a great system for random maps, and random monsters, and random placement of teasure. You could even play it solo. Also multiple unique playing pieces which changed the game based on who you played. It still has faithful players even today.
The problem was that it took forever to do all the randomizing and put everything together to play, and almost as long to put the game away. And it came out just as PCs were coming out which made it obvious where games like that should be played. I think it helped bring that to everyones attention which of course we are all benefitting from.
I cant believe that it was never computerized. Some good programmer with zero creativity should have snagged it up and made a killing. Heck even the instruction manual reads like psuedo-code to me. And I love the rock-paper-scissors balance of it instead of chess-like equality. It might not be "the game of the year" but I think it would be quite playable and marketable with alot less effort than doing one from scratch. I might just be nostaglic but I dont think so.
There are some open source efforts going on. I was checking them regularly before. Maybe I should check again and diret them to Shrapnel.
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September 25th, 2006, 02:39 PM
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Gandalf Parker said: Magic Realm was a fantastic board game which I feel was just timed badly. [...] I cant believe that it was never computerized. [...] There are some open source efforts going on. I was checking them regularly before. Maybe I should check again and diret them to Shrapnel.
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I recently had the urge to play a game of Magic Realm, and I've also been visiting http://www.boardgamegeek.com to see what others have said about the games I'm playing. That is where I discovered that there is a Java applet called RealmSpeak which just released v0.34 three days ago. I haven't tried the applet, but BoardGameGeek also has a PDF of the unofficial Third Edition rules (v3.1), which I have downloaded.
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November 30th, 2006, 07:14 PM
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EFS remake, YES!
Car Wars on a computer, YES!
Ogre/GEV on the PC, YES YES YES!
The problem with the latter two is that Steve Jackson has thus far refused to license his work for development of a computer game.
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December 1st, 2006, 11:34 AM
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Possum said: The problem with the latter two is that Steve Jackson has thus far refused to license his work for development of a computer game.
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Once bitten, twice shy. He's been burned by computer companies before. Fallout is the one I remember, but ISTR there were others.
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December 3rd, 2006, 09:07 PM
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Pffft, that's like saying, "A girl broke my heart once, so now I'm going to become a priest."
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December 3rd, 2006, 09:09 PM
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Oh, and I still play EFS occasionally.
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