Quote from: droogSo, what do people here make of this announcement?

It leads down a path of questions:

Is Donut to be an RPG (or RPG-like thing) or a gamey game such as Bella Sara and Clout Fantasy?

If it's going to be an RPG...I would suggest it will, in fact, be an RPG-like object, perhaps an attempt at a sort of storytelling game with narration trading, perhaps with nice components like cards (collectible?) to shape the narrative. Because something like that is about the closest thing to an RPG I could see a company like that pursuing. (Basically, I'm assuming Adkison is interested in making a profit commensurate with his other ventures, rather than being a Medici-like patron of the art of roleplaying design.)

If it isn't going to be an RPG, I don't know why Jared & Luke would have been hired. Not that I have a strong sense of Jared's style, but I don't think either of them is particularly the person to go to for a strategy board/card game.

So basically I'm expecting something aimed at sucking cash from consumers (read: neverending accessories), definitely targeted at kids, possibly licensed, and having some sort of RPG/storygame-like character.

As always with these announcementss, the truth will be generally underwhelming.

Droog, you fucking shill.

It's kind of interesting, though, isn't it?

I like Bella Sara better. It's got ponies.

Better than what?

I will definitely be keeping my child away from that thing.

Quote from: Ian Absentia(P.S. Here's the website for Hidden City Games.  Collectible cards and disk games.  My daughter collects the Bella Sara horse cards.  I'll take all this as a significant hint.)

I've got it!  Bella Sara is going to buy out the rights to My Little Pony and then they are going to produce a series of short rpgs.  Then, when little girls play with their animals and dolls, they will have the rules to do it in proper narrativist style instead of their current broken gaming that is giving them brain damage.

I'm keeping an open mind. They both are pretty creative guys. For all we know, something pretty darn fun could come out of it.

It looks like a sci-fi ARG (alternate reality game) type deal. Maybe.

It will be interesting.

Jared has worked for Atari and whatever company in the past produced that "Dogz" virtual pet. (Was it Ubi Soft back then?) in the past. He always puts together interesting stuff. Not necessarily fun or playable, but always interesting.

Luke I see as more of an entrepreneur and organizer. As a designer he's a bit of a hack. He designed a fantasy game without ever having even played D&D3. In doing so, he successfully identified a niche of people who want to play a normal fantasy RPG but are such total fucking tools they don't want to be identified or seen as playing D&D. That's brilliant entrepreneurship. Unfortunately his game is boring and you have to write your moves down on pieces of paper and shit, so that's kind of weak. As an organizer he's pretty top notch, and unlike the pirates and mormons guy or the brain damage guy, he managed to accomplish this without assembling a Koreshian apocalypse-cult.

So uh.. I await the future!

According to some guy on OgreCave, it's not an ARG. Unless Luke is lying through his teeth, of course.

Good for them!  I'm interested to see what it'll be!

Sounds cool indeed!  We were angled toward the Bella Sara booth at GenCon, and I can tell you from experience that they put on a very big and glitzy display.  I'm quite intrigued to see what a Luke'n'Jared product would look like when mixed with that sort of marketing blitz.