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Company News BioWare Working on Small Secret Project with Failbetter Games

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Indeed, I just wanted to post a news item on BioWare, which we haven't done in a long, long time, it seems.

Anyway, the company that the RPG Codex knows and loves, BioWare, has been announced to cooperate with the indie studio Failbetter Games, whose games Fallen London and Sunless Sea I doubt anyone here has even heard about nevermind played (yeah, me neither), on a Super Sekret Unannounced Projekt. All we have is this short notice posted on the Failbetter Games website:

Keeping secrets doesn’t come naturally to us. We are excitable: we love our work: we love talking about our work.

But for the last year, on and off, we’ve been working in absolute secrecy on a project for a much larger company. When we’ve gone quiet for no obvious reason, it’s because we’ve been heads-down on this. When I’ve mentioned that we don’t take client work any more, with rare exceptions, this is the rare exception.

We’ve finally been allowed to lift one corner of the veil. I can’t tell you anything at all about the project – not for a little while yet – except to say that it’s a Failbettery one, down to its bones. But I can tell you the name of the company:

BioWare.

We are thrilled about this. We can’t wait to say more.​

Wouldn't you be thrilled to work with David Gaider himself?

(And thrilled he was.)

The description of FG's Fallen London game does sound fairly Codexian, though:

Welcome to a dark and hilarious Victorian-Gothic underworld, where every choice has a consequence, from the style of your hat to the price of your soul.​

Yes, it's a CYOA. I wonder if the next game is one, too. BioWare jealous of Age of Decadence's success? Stay tuned for more.
 
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Well, the most disappointing thing about Arcanum was not being able to see the top hat you were wearing. Here's the to round two.
 

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Welcome to a dark and hilarious Victorian-Gothic underworld, where every choice has a consequence, from the style of your hat to the price of your soul.

Sounds like some dumb unfunny shit that is trying too hard to be wacky and zany. I'm predicting some Terry Pratchet style garbage "humour" that isn't funny to anyone except Brits and fedora-wearing Jezebel readers.
 

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Welcome to a dark and hilarious Victorian-Gothic underworld, where every choice has a consequence
Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, every Bioware game ever made after Jade Empire. So a fitting partnership.
 

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Hey, maybe Bioware took my advice to drop all pretense and start making pornographic visual novels. If so, good for them. That's obviously what they've wanted to do for some time now.
 

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Terry Pratchet style garbage "humour" that isn't funny to anyone except Brits and fedora-wearing Jezebel readers.

Hey, I dunno about his novels but Discworld Noir was pretty great!
The novels are pretty good too, at least the earlier ones. At some point he stopped being funny and started trying to be deep.

Regarding the topic at hand, my prediction is that this secret project is a full-fledged bisexual dating sim, to test the waters if the biodrones will buy a "game" with no real gameplay or story outside of romance.
 
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Failbetter Games, whose games Fallen London and Sunless Sea I doubt anyone here has even heard about nevermind played (yeah, me neither)
I actually played Fallen London for a bit sometime ago. I don't remember exactly what set me off - some obnoxious FtP stuff probably. As a game it's kinda ok if you don't mind it being very boardgame-y.
How's that supposed to work with Biowhore's Magnificent Cutscenes kind of "gameplay", however, is whole different question that deserves a place among the greatest puzzles of the universe.
 

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Terry Pratchet style garbage "humour" that isn't funny to anyone except Brits and fedora-wearing Jezebel readers.

Hey, I dunno about his novels but Discworld Noir was pretty great!
The novels are pretty good too, at least the earlier ones. At some point he stopped being funny and started trying to be deep.

Regarding the topic at hand, my prediction is that this secret project is a full-fledged bisexual dating sim, to test the waters if the biodrones will buy a "game" with no real gameplay or story outside of romance.

I'm sorry but Pratchett always struck me as the worse kind of British humour. Ugh. Different strokes and all that.

But anyways, let's not distract ourselves from the larger issue at hand, which is that this game will likely suck, and BioWare also sucks.
 

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1. You must obviously not be a regular of the Kickstarter thread, cause their Kickstarter for Sunless Sea looked mighty interesting: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/failbetter/sunless-sea

2. Wow, some people here hate Bioware so much that they hate anyone who associates with them. it's like they have the plague or something. Tho, this being Bioware we're talking about, i guess a more apt comparison would be STDs.
 

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1. You must obviously not be a regular of the Kickstarter thread, cause their Kickstarter for Sunless Sea looked mighty interesting: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/failbetter/sunless-sea

2. Wow, some people here hate Bioware so much that they hate anyone who associates with them. it's like they have the plague or something. Tho, this being Bioware we're talking about, i guess a more apt comparison would be STDs.
I think that any developer who wants to associate with bioware needs to romance them before they can work together
 

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Fallen London was ok little game with interesting setting and passable writing, its problem was that It was FtP browser game and with that turf comes limited number of actions per day and grinding. I can see them pitching Bioware a CYOA game that would be very cost effective, with potential decent profit and increasing Biowares reputation of company with quality writers (not my opinion but shit load of their fans).

Personally I would really like a game similar to King of the Dragon Pass or Academagia i only hope its a proper RPG and not just a interactive novel (please no Planescape Torment jokes).
 

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