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Message no. 1
From: Jan-bart van Beek <flake@***.NL>
Subject: CD-Rom Game update
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 16:27:27 +0100
Geez, you guys are quick, I already have received the first couple of
replies.

I have to clarify something.
First we were planning on making it an adventure type game, like Myst and
the lucas film products. Definetly not something like under a killing
moon though, that game sucks big time.
I ,personally, always felt that arcade style games don't work when your
dealing with intricate plot-line, and that something we would like.
That doesn't mean there's not gonna be any arcadeparts in it, but it's
not gonna be all arcade. Those days are numbered.

Unless ofcourse you guys can prove me wrong, but that counts for all the
statements in this posting.

Second, we were thinking of a single-person perspective. I admit teams
are the standard and have proven their workability. But making it
single-person adds something. It makes it more personal, helps you to
identify with the character you play.
Maybe a system like Midwinter could also work. Playing multiple
characters at the same time but one after another, not as a team.

Third allthough we like the Shadowrun atmospere, we don't feel it right
to outright pirate the whole world-setting. Some things should be
different.
Maybe a sort of cross between Akira's Neo_tokyo and the Shadowrun world
view, add some Bubble Gum crisis for flavor and maybe a touch of X-files.

Feel free to complete destroy the world FASA build, if you like.

By the way we like the idea of Yakuza Involvement.


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