Taking a break from all the “heavy” stuff we’ve been doing lately, today I bring you…puffery! Or at least, word that Coyote has finally released his demo - excuse me, pilot ;) - of Frayed Knights. The link below will take you directly to the download page. Nothing is said there, however, as to how large a file this is (Coyote?). I do know it’s too big for dial-up (ahem). Anyway, those on broadband, go check it out.

Frayed Knights download page

Over on his blog, Coyote has stepped into the “drama discussion”, using movies as a basis. I can’t agree with that, because there’s a big difference between the movie hero and the game hero.

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Today on his blog, Gareth has posted an update to the save/restore business we looked at in Save Me Again. And so we find out what he wants to accomplish.

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The Martians landed. In 1942. In Siberia. Now it’s up to Stalin and the Red Army to stop them. You just know this real-time strategy game is coming from a Russian developer ;)

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I’ve been giving some serious consideration to the matter of non-combat skills in CRPGs. Of course, that was brought about by last Friday’s post on Save Me Again. Do we want them, and if so, what function do they serve?

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Over on his blog today, Gareth Fouche (Scars Of War designer) has a post up on ways of breaking the save/restore cycle outside of the usual “everyone dies in combat” situation.

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Coyote’s blog post today is about spies. He begins with a discussion of a real spy, Mike Ramsdell, author of “A Train to Potevka”. Along the way, we learn that most intelligence work is done by middle-aged men rather than James Bond types.

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Today, rpgcodex has up an interview with Vince Weller, the man behind the upcoming Age Of Decadence. This one is more on the technical side of things, but a couple of remarks surprised me.

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