[В разработке] Geneforge 3: Detonation (страница 1)

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Greetings from Spiderweb Software! Our first week of the Geneforge 3 - Detonation Kickstarter and concluded, and we could not be happier. The game funded in two hours and has already reached the first two Stretch Goals!

This means that, once again, we will create a new creation for you to make in the game, and we will draw from the ideas of backers to do it. We will also have a whole new path through the game. Honestly, we were already going to have something like this, but because we made the stretch goal we are expanding the quests, adding new options, tough choices, and endings.

The next stretch goal is more content, in the form of a new hard-to-find storyline that will expand on the lore of Geneforge. We will ask backers to suggest what lore to expand, and we're sure longtime Geneforge fans will have some great ideas.

One of the most interesting things about doing these rewrites is that, when I return to a game after 20 years, I can see what the game is actually about.

Geneforge is about a world run by the Shapers, and their control is absolute. Are they selfish with their powers? Sometimes brutal and cruel? Yes. But in return, they have brought peace for so long that nobody really knows what war is anymore. In Geneforge 3, a war has started, and even those who hate the Shapers have no idea what force they have unleashed.

So I want the dialogue to reflect that. In 2005, I didn't think about how characters, Shaper or not, would react to this unprecedented disaster. What they would want. Where they would go. Now that I am adding tons of material, I get to create a much more interesting world. It is full of terrified, powerless characters who have no idea what to do. There is only one person in the remote setting of the game who can help and advise them: You.

It's a cool premise, and it will take a lot of work to weave it in and make it sensible and interesting. But now that I'm actually working on it? I can see that this is where the game has to go. Your character is gonna be asked a lot of hard questions.

Ну, посмотрим, что у Джефа получится.

The Geneforge 3 - Detonation Kickstarter has concluded, and we are thrilled by how it went! We reached the third stretch goal just before the conclusion, guaranteeing a new quest line full of fresh Geneforge lore and nasty encounters.

Rewriting Continues

So I just rewrote the final boss battle for the first island in Geneforge 3. It was a big job, because I really didn't like how the encounter turned out in the original game. I came up with a cool basic design in 2004, but I didn't give myself enough time to actually implement it properly. The skeleton of a cool dungeon was there, but it didn't have the right details to make it work the way I wanted.

No longer. I reworked it all, adding tons of stuff and making it be something that works well. In the future, I will be writing more blog posts about the creation of Geneforge 3, the problems I ran into, and what I needed to do to fix them. If you're interested in those sorts of details, I will have a lot to say!

And now it's back to work. A lot of work on the game. A lot of talking to backers. It's a giant project, and we're ready to tear into it.