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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #700 on: April 07, 2010, 08:29:34 PM »
Oh, she is badass in Pushing Daisies, yes (like everything she does).  There's so much she kicks ass in so many places, I couldn't put them all there.  I figured Wicked would be best, since that's where I think most people know her best <_<

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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #701 on: April 07, 2010, 09:40:02 PM »
So....you know EVE Online?  That game where all the players form enormous corporations?

I'm interviewing with them (in Atlanta) hopefully within the week, to work on World of Darkness (all I know about this game is that it's based on a tabletop game, and that it has Vampires instead of Space Ships).

Certainly excited--this sounds interesting.
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #702 on: April 07, 2010, 09:57:12 PM »
World of Darkness is the parent series of Vampire: The Masquerade.
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #703 on: April 07, 2010, 10:34:18 PM »
Somehow I just can't picture mc working on a WoD game.


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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #704 on: April 07, 2010, 11:45:25 PM »
I don't think any of the old Troika guys are involved with that game as far as I know, which is kind of a disappointment.

Anyway, one of the reports that crossed my desk today went something like this: A hospital here did a lumbar puncture on a dude for samples to send to the OCID. They took these samples because they think he has a form of viral encephalitis that causes extreme agitation.  You know, like the disease from every zombie movie.

Long story short, I've started working on my prep list.
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #705 on: April 07, 2010, 11:54:11 PM »
So WYU is now going to have a 20 EPPM (Explosion Pills Per Minute) requirement, MC will be in position to recreate the Malkavians, and we're going to be relying on Rob to save us from the zombie apocalypse.

Yes, just as planned...

(Seriously though, congrats to Yakko and OK, and good luck to MC)

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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #706 on: April 08, 2010, 12:18:48 AM »
Doma, you're going to be so busy running from zombies while I save people one by one (and to be frank, none of you are THAT high on my list) that you'll have to shorten it to "zombocalypse" to save time.

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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #707 on: April 08, 2010, 01:17:04 AM »
Somehow I just can't picture mc working on a WoD game.

Somehow I feel mc is exactly what WoD needs. The emo grew old by Vampire The Masquerade 2nd Edition.

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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #708 on: April 08, 2010, 05:13:34 AM »
MC:

Come to Atlantttttta. We can go window-shopping in all of the cultish areas of Atlanta~

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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #709 on: April 08, 2010, 05:20:04 AM »
Mom can't walk without crutches for four weeks after foot surgery. While money is gonna be tight for her, I'm really more worried about her getting bored I think.
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #710 on: April 08, 2010, 05:39:26 AM »
Atlanta has an occult center?  Sweet.  You can look for spells that make spontaneous rainbows break out when met laughs.
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #711 on: April 08, 2010, 05:41:01 AM »
Mom can't walk without crutches for four weeks after foot surgery. While money is gonna be tight for her, I'm really more worried about her getting bored I think.

Get her a gigolo. She doesn't need to stand up unless she wants to.

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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #712 on: April 08, 2010, 11:40:24 AM »
I do dance the magic dance, Gref...naked, and in my spare time.  If you'd like me to tape and post that...

Obviously this is exacty what I want.

Edit - Especially if you get/take the position, because then you are a Lecturer and that is fucking HOT.

Edit 2 - I forgot to chime in on the far more important thing.  If you get offered/accept Met if you can slip in a World of Rainbows mode by whatever means necessary I will play this MMO.
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #713 on: April 08, 2010, 10:12:42 PM »
Atlanta has an occult center?  Sweet.  You can look for spells that make spontaneous rainbows break out when met laughs.

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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #714 on: April 09, 2010, 06:09:03 PM »
So today I had to bake cookies to bring to a class. Yummy yummy~
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #715 on: April 10, 2010, 03:20:49 AM »
Edit 2 - I forgot to chime in on the far more important thing.  If you get offered/accept Met if you can slip in a World of Rainbows mode by whatever means necessary I will play this MMO.

The problem is I'm not an artist.  I mean, maybe an obscure mode to have hair do the Disco Lilina Rainbowcycle (and even that I'm skeptical about because hair is not necessarily seperable from the rest of the head).  But I can't, say, do a version of the world of darkness set in the Scarlet Devil Mansion >_>

EDIT: Also, I know nothing about Vampire: the Masquerade either.  Like...if anyone knows stuff about my company or source material, I wouldn't mind hearing a summary.

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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #716 on: April 10, 2010, 06:18:44 AM »
Edit 2 - I forgot to chime in on the far more important thing.  If you get offered/accept Met if you can slip in a World of Rainbows mode by whatever means necessary I will play this MMO.

The problem is I'm not an artist.  I mean, maybe an obscure mode to have hair do the Disco Lilina Rainbowcycle (and even that I'm skeptical about because hair is not necessarily seperable from the rest of the head).  But I can't, say, do a version of the world of darkness set in the Scarlet Devil Mansion >_>

EDIT: Also, I know nothing about Vampire: the Masquerade either.  Like...if anyone knows stuff about my company or source material, I wouldn't mind hearing a summary.

Pick up VtM: Bloodlines off Steam and play that. It's like ten dollars and it is fucking amazing. Plus, it is the only thing you SHOULD to know to make a good game. Everything else is emo douchebaggery.

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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #717 on: April 10, 2010, 02:26:20 PM »
Snow and Alex are probably your best sources on World of Darkness stuff.  Snow can give you dated stuff about the game itself, but should be still relevant on the target audience.  Alex I am pretty sure is the most up to date person in the DL with regards to the actual VtM reboot.

Boodlines while great actually probably wouldn't be a great help for what she is after though.  Part of the appeal there is how little like the rest of the stuff in the setting it is and the game literally takes place just before the old setting was finished up.  Although it is well worth check out for a lot of other reasons, it is a game full of great ideas, bad execution and works wonderfully as a case study on highly restricted development cycle time frames with a third party engine still technically under development and also for post release support being handled by a player community.

I believe the new MMO is also going to take place in the New Worlds of Darkness setting rather than the old one, so it is more Medieval/Enlightenment era setting which tries to step back a bit from the more unhinged emololigoth stuff a bit from memory (this may be completely and totally wrong and misrepresenting the setting).

For the company itself, my understanding is that their background was largely from player base of another space MMO before EVE and they did that whole "We can totally do this better" thing that happened with Everquest and some of the bigger name hires that Blizzard took on for WoW.  Outside of that, I don't really know much.  A little suprised that they have a presence in Atlanta, I thought the head office and main servers and everything for EVE were in Europe (Iceland? or something like that?), but I know they have something of a presence in the US for yearly big meet ups about the game they have in Vegas and whatnot.  But that again just might be my memory playing up and hey nothing wrong with successful companies running multiple teams and whatnot.  Honestly don't know who funds them or what though, I THINK (again bad memory) from the top of my head that they are independent studio that White Wolf or whoever owns the license for the release of games is producing it.  No real big names in the studio comes to mind or anything and to be frank I can't think of anything they have done other than EVE.
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #718 on: April 10, 2010, 04:42:37 PM »
You're correct about them being an Islandic company.  I assume the studio in Iceland is handling continued updates of EVE.  That said, they have studios in China, Atlanta, and the UK as well.

I'm doubting the medieval setting of World of Darkness...

http://www.ccpgames.com/en/products/world-of-darkness.aspx

I'm seeing skyscrapers (and another image on the site seems to have electric lights).  Judging by the style of architecture, I'm thinking at least 1980 (and...it's hard to set an upper limit on time scale because you can just BS with "buildings didn't change much since the Vampire apocalypse of 2025", but I'm inclined to say no later than 2100 because the buildings aren't crumbling, still have power, and aren't visibly futuristic).
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #719 on: April 10, 2010, 05:36:45 PM »
Most of what I know of the reboot is from when it first kicked off ... 5 years ago I think it was?  So yeah my info is massively out of date.

Also it will probably be 1980s because that is when White Wolf was last relevant (Pointless snark).  It is the era that a lot of the game's aesthetic stems from in a modern setting (at least in the original one...), my understanding is that they toned back the emololigoth, but I would go into this full expecting Anne Rice style vampires more than Mormon Sparklepires.  Edit - Actually I suppose if they are still hiring that even with how long it has been in development and how out of date I am with VtM stuff the game may have shifted gears in that direction in spite of any hope someone might have had for it.
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #720 on: April 10, 2010, 05:54:36 PM »
Also it will probably be 1980s because that is when White Wolf was last relevant.

World of Dorkiness: well into complete irrelevance at least five years before it was released. And they toned down the loligothica on the new WoD? That doesn't really sound right from what I heard of it. If anything, it sounded -more- emololigoth Kotori LARPing than it was before, which is frankly impressive. >_>

EDIT: Also, new WoD and Medieval WoD aren't the same. Guess you were thinking of Dark Ages there, Greffy Gref.

EDIT WACHOWSKY EDITION: Which is to say Dark Ages is still old WoD, although they probably have a new WoD Dark Ages anyway. Feel free to strike the Dark and replace with Dork whenever.
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #721 on: April 10, 2010, 08:30:29 PM »
but I would go into this full expecting Anne Rice style vampires more than Mormon Sparklepires.

I would go in expecting zero sparkling regardless.  I don't think I've ever been on a videogame message board that didn't utterly loath sparkling.

Side note: the sparkling works within the Twilight fiction because it's "Pfft no, we're not killed by pathetic weak things like sunlight or pieces of wood, either.  We just don't go out when it's sunny because...".  However, in a vampire mythology called WORLD OF DARKNESS, I'm assuming vampires actually do have a weakness to sunlight.
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #722 on: April 10, 2010, 08:34:15 PM »
That'd be right in both cosmologies (WoDo and WoDn).
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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #723 on: April 11, 2010, 12:23:50 AM »
So I may or may not have a job when I get back to Albuquerque.  And if I don't, it's because I was lied to about how many classes I needed to be taking in order to keep my job.  And if that's the case, I may end up going to jail for murder.

So.  Yeah.  Y'know this little vacation was great until I got that voicemail.

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Re: Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition
« Reply #724 on: April 11, 2010, 12:56:50 AM »
Zenny going to jail for murder when he hasn't even killed anyone?  Why does this sound strangely plausible?