From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Mar 17 2002 - 20:42:42 MST
John Grigg wrote:
> I was just curious to know how things were progressing with the game? It is an idea just too good to be played with and than forgotten about!
I had an offer for card design to - *possibly* - be one of the sessions
at the next Foresight gathering, but I haven't heard anything else about
that; since the program they've posted for said gathering doesn't seem
to leave any significant slots for this, I doubt it will happen (beyond
brief - say, 10 minute max - discussions that would most likely not
yield any significant contemplation as to what cards should be added).
Beyond that, just about all that's been going on, has gone on on this
list - including nothing for the past week or so.
> I have emailed Steve Jackson for the job of making this game a reality and presently await his response. I included a link so he could read the extrolist posts on the subject. Perhaps he will bring his talents and resources to bear on this cool project.
>
> No one could do it as well(design, graphics, marketing, distribution, etc.) as he would. : )
To be perfectly honest, I was thinking Looney Labs or Cheap-Ass Games.
Steve Jackson might be too much for a targetted game like this. But, if
you really think SJG might take a project like this seriously without
repurposing it to high sales and profit (which is any game company's
prime objective) as opposed to getting the message out...sure, it's
worth a shot. (My main concerns specifically: making the game more
public-friendly in ways that utterly destroy its impact or even turn it
against us, and the ever-so-slight-but-nonzero chance of legal trickery
to try to claim rights to this type of game - not only to put control
into the hands of those who would never listen to us, and thus invoke
concern number one, but also to stop us from developing this game on our
own with any other publisher in order to address any severe philosophic
deficiencies.)
At least the legalese gives them a single person to contact, so I'll
know if they're taking the bait.
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