Jagged Alliance: Drug Flashback

[The_scorpion]

Establishment of Modding Advisory Team

In addition we are announcing having established a modding advisory and co-design team.
Currently this team includes R@S, creator of the Blue Sun Mod for 7.62 - High Calibre and DepressivesBrot from the 1.13-Crew.
We are also in contact with additional high profile modders to expand the advisory team even more.

The Full Control JAF Team

 

[R@S]

Establishment of Modding Advisory Team

In addition we are announcing having established a modding advisory and co-design team.
Currently this team includes R@S, creator of the Blue Sun Mod for 7.62 - High Calibre and DepressivesBrot from the 1.13-Crew.
We are also in contact with additional high profile modders to expand the advisory team even more.

The Full Control JAF Team

 

[spectre]

So, this time it's the delopers themselves who say, don't worry moders will fix us

This looks like a move in the right direction. And may I be the first one to ask... was it that hard?
Though I'm still waiting for them to stop running 'round like headless chickens.

We don't really have a development plan still!

See what I mean?

 

[Severian Silk]

I would prefer a new campaign and maybe a few tweaks for JA2 than an entire new engine with potentially fewer features than the original. I seriously doubt they can create a new engine as awesome or greater than the JA2 engine from 1999 for that little money (or, regardless of how much money they have).

I would still be playing JA2 right now except I'm sick of playing the same campaign over and over again.

 

[Fart Master]

I would be happy with 1.13 with non-shitty sprites.

 

[Spectacle]

I'm not pledging for this, it's simply too risky. I'm not against gambling some money on kickstarter, but in this case the chance of getting a good game is considerably less than 50%.
Main risk factors:

• The team does not seem to fully understand what makes a good JA game. This has been alleviated somewhat in the updates, but that they didn't make it clear at first is still worrying.
• The team may not be competent to implement a JA game, especially not with a tight budget.
• Even if everything else goes well, the 350K target budget seems way too low to fully realize the game. Jagged Alliance is more than just a good TB combat system, it's also about the campaign. The small budget doesn't seem like it will let them give the game anything like the depth that made JA2 so fun to play.

Conclusion:

I'll buy it on release if it's decent though, so I hope the rest of you keep pledging.

-Spectacle

 

[Absalom]

I'm not pledging for this, it's simply too risky. I'm not against gambling some money on kickstarter, but in this case the chance of getting a good game is considerably less than 50%.
Main risk factors:

• The team does not seem to fully understand what makes a good JA game. This has been alleviated somewhat in the updates, but that they didn't make it clear at first is still worrying.
• The team may not be competent to implement a JA game, especially not with a tight budget.
• Even if everything else goes well, the 350K target budget seems way too low to fully realize the game. Jagged Alliance is more than just a good TB combat system, it's also about the campaign. The small budget doesn't seem like it will let them give the game anything like the depth that made JA2 so fun to play.

Conclusion:

I'll buy it on release if it's decent though, so I hope the rest of you keep pledging.

-Spectacle

Like a lot of what made JA2 was the setting and characters; especially with all the effort they put into voice acting, world building, etc. The great TB combat made the game decent, the rest made it memorable. I doubt we're gonna see something like that from them. Still, I'll prolly kick 20-30$ to them on the off chance. Also, I wouldn't mind a good Space Hulk game either lol.

 

[Lorica]

I think you're wrong. I fell in love with JA2 first while playing with the sound off and trying to lone wolf it with my IMP. They did a great job with respect to setting and things, but the reason people have been able to play it continuously for ten years doesn't lie with the one liners that we all memorized within six months of picking the game up and the lulzy pseudo setting. It's memorable because it's one of a very small handful of truly first class game systems on the computer.

 

[Spectacle]

But how many people played Unfinished Business more than once or twice? That's more like what we can expect for a 350K budget.

-Spectacle

 

[WetWorks]

Hard to know what to make of this.
That video of their previous tb game seems to indicate that their "heart" and tastes are in the right place. One the other hand, one has to doubt their skills after having seen it. There's a lot to dislike there, from the crappy animation to the 3d "black space".
Who know what to expect from it.

 

[MetalCraze]

That video of their previous tb game seems to indicate that their "heart" and tastes are in the right place.

Why? Because it's TB? Because it looked like a primitive shit.

 

[WetWorks]

Yeah, because of tb. At this stage in the JA history one finds it hard no to be a little optimistic when someone wants a tb JA. On the other hand you are correct, it does look like stacked shit.

 

[Branm]

Meh at this rate they wont get funded anyway

Had high hopes but the first two weeks of campaign were run like a bunch of amateurs, pitch at start was terrible. Getting better but hmm hoping its not a little too late. Really dunno if anything can save this, was expecting mre of a boost with the old Sir-Tech people

 

[MetalCraze]

1 Sir-Tech janitor and an ex-1.13 mod contributor != Sir-Tech people

 

[Branm]

Andrew Emmons 26 minutes ago

Very cool! As lead programmer for JA2, count me in for beta testing!!



Andrew Emmons 16 minutes ago

Yes, saw a tweet from Brenda and pledged right away. Amazing you have Chris on the project, he is a rock star! Really helped to capture that turn based strategic gameplay that has been hard to reproduce since...


lol small world

 

[The_scorpion]

can't say they aren't trying...

 

[Cassidy]

I wish they would not have been boasting with their previous efforts .. it would be so much better if we had never seen Tactical Soldier.

 

[Branm]

 

[Branm]

Soon :D

 

[spectre]

16500 000 to go, 9 days left. What they need is a miracle.

 

[Branm]

Well Obsidian just gave them a shout out, campaign seems to slowly be coming together. Shame that they got their shit into gear so late or it could of gone much higher.

 

[Spectacle]

Most campaigns that get this far get funded, so my bet is that they'll scrape past 350K in the last hours.

 

[Branm]

Diorama was just released....

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2079547763/jagged-alliance-flashback/posts

Its aight, could really use some bump mapping to make the scene feel alive but they said that adding that takes time so couldnt be done for diorama.

One way or another much better then JA2 gfx and seeing it should be mod friendly we can just replace all the low res textures with higher res versions.

 

[Sgt. Rock]

Short video of the Diorama.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Sorry but compared to Jagged Alliiance this diorama looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit