AfterWorld Survival Forum

He-he... Still here and working with potential investors. As I said before, it`s hard and boring work. Letters, meetings, presentations, negotiations...  It`s difficult to explain uncommon ideas to people who manages money, they are very conservative even if they are called venture investors.

I can imagine it is very hard work convincing risk adverse investors to part with sufficient funds while still retaining the control and ownership that Dedicated Logic desire.

He-he... Still here and working with potential investors. As I said before, it`s hard and boring work. Letters, meetings, presentations, negotiations...  It`s difficult to explain uncommon ideas to people who manages money, they are very conservative even if they are called venture investors.

This is great.

Do you maybe think about selling the alpha version for raise funds for development? I mean you could sell multiple copies with the restriction of changed title or you could offer a rebrand for the buyer. Alpha is a completed and playable game yet it would not have negative impact on Survival.

He-he... Still here and working with potential investors. As I said before, it`s hard and boring work. Letters, meetings, presentations, negotiations...  It`s difficult to explain uncommon ideas to people who manages money, they are very conservative even if they are called venture investors.

It will be my duty to comunicate with game comunity.

Watchmen: Bob Dylan - The Times They Are a-Changin' [HQ]

It seems the playerbase (all that's left of it) is getting the impression that the game is dead.
And the developers (all that's left of them) are getting the impression that the playerbase is dead.
Fair enough.

The total forum visits are not that bad... At least for the page views that is...
Still think that it would be a very good thing for the developers to open a comminucation channel like skype or irc where we can all meet up and ask and talk about the game and the future of it.

Homo Ludens, why not make it less boring for you and make a channel where we could all meet?
Who knows what good can come from a channel where we can share and talk about solutions.

And give people on the forum a weekly or bi-weekly report on the situation would also stimulate lots of us. Just waiting 4 or 5 weeks to tell nothing has worked out well yet isn't that motivating for both you or us players.

Another month almost over and no movement .. nothing verbal from the dev's or changes in the game .. i ask myself " is there a future for this game? should i make another donation or is it money thrown out the window? will i sit suddenly in front of a black screen? " . I really like the game and even more the people playing it but i just dont know which direction to go. So if anybody heard ANYTHING let me know.

 Hello guys
Just because I didn’t posted anything since now that doesn’t mean I wasn’t here , sometime the frustration gets so big that I dint know how to call ‘it anymore…
 
So to be honest whit myself I the first place I find this game a really offending try from a group of peoples who want to prove for themselves they have balls to create a game that will shake the world upside down, fist of all I could conclude this game is a second job for everyone ( the numerous updates and bug fixes tells me that )
 
…and of course is not hard to notice they r not here to work full second job for this project and how can I see that? Well simple… just when the game released the BONUS PACK last year I remember how often bugs were fixed just to please the masses , in one month they fixed so many things that I was scared this game will develop so fast I will be left behind whit the news, bull crap, all it was just a flash in the pan, ……ok so I think those devs involved in the game development, who r left to do something,have at least after 8-10 hours of primary job …let say from 8 morning to 16-18 ( 2 hours extra is not much when u r a programmer, cause always is something let to be finished before u leave the office, and of the lunch break) ….ok so who is that person after 10h job can go to a second job to fix something, and I m not saying to develop something new, just to fix the fking stupid bugs we all hate it soo much, to play this rough version of this fking poorly version of game we play? I mean after 18 afternoon do u think is some more juice to do something? I doubt that, and all the week ends whit extra time to make money for living, leave some extra time to develop/fix what is needed for this AWS? Really?...
 
....c’mon , they r not robots, they r human…why I know that?....just because of that fking stupid pride that lies in each of us, in me in u in me, in everyone, this pride sometimes says allot more about the wisdom of us, …….point where I see myself forced to stop just to not offend someone by mistake now when I m soo pissed off about what I see…..
 
so…..
 
guys don’t force yourself , don’t push yourself to much in something that is not coming to life in next 5 years, I could have bet on this time, ……
 
…..jeeesus 1 year and nothing fixed, they had to see us yelling all over the forum for a global chat? Just to help the newcomers? ….wow... unbelievable, seriously……1 year  and nothing?, …………..good job guys
 
Cheers
 

Hello guys. I've been sent to this topic and I must explain what happened with the team.


First of all, shit happens. And happened to AW team. This happened when they decided to move from the old and outdated game engine to Torque3D. Unfortunately, this took a lot more time and they couldn't finish it. Right way would be to recruit more team members and begin migration in parallel, but it wasn't possible due to financial reasons.


Playerbase withered, money finished and they had to find work outside of their own project, their baby that they were growing for seven years. Just think about it - seven years they were doing their job almost for free. Now thye have families, they are renting apartaments and they aren't startupers anymore. For the team, there were no other choice. But still, everyday they were looking for a way to resurrect AW and to finish their abandoned migration.


This is how they found me, and I hope that I'll help. We have some money - not really much, not enough to recruit a full team and do a powerful jump toward the nextgen game, but it will be enough to finish migration and to launch AW without technical problems that caused players to leave.


Please don't blame them - they did everything possible to keep the game alive, to make the game good and fun. I don't know any other team who would be so persitant and devoted to their work. And I don't know any other team that would have to earn money somewhere else, but wait for the oportunity to return and to finish their job.