Steve Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 An update on the follow-on game to King of Dragon Pass - Six Ages progress update. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOB Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Great news from our friends at A Sharp - Six Ages, the "spiritual successor" to the amazing King of Dragon Pass game, is now in Beta testing! So looking forward to new and wondrous interactive explorations of Glorantha! https://sixages.com/blog/index.php/2018/01/beta/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenwheeldancer Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 What platforms will this be on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanPospisil Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 4 hours ago, goldenwheeldancer said: What platforms will this be on? No platform info has been released yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted January 31, 2018 Author Share Posted January 31, 2018 iPhone at the minimum, because they asked a little while back for beta testers with iPhones. Would be amazed if they didn't release it on Android too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Does anyone (other than them) know the relative market-sizes of the different platforms in the KoDP userbase? I'd be pretty surprised if their release-plans didn't follow the existing market pretty closely. Obviously they want to grow beyond that if possible, but abandoning the known & relatively-reliable market in hopes of attracting some nebulous "larger" market seems like a sub-optimal plan... Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanPospisil Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 This is my guess and I can't speak in any official capacity, but I'd say: iOS > PC (GoG and Steam combined) > Android Android is always the worst, because it's so easily piratable and full of shovelware. Steam is hard to break into these days, also too much shovelware. (plus the Steam port had issues) A surprising number of grognards prefer the old GoG version, but globally I don't think they make up too big a percentage of all players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffjerwin Posted January 31, 2018 Share Posted January 31, 2018 Looks like the server is down - I can't connect to the update. I hope it will run on OS X, because that's all I got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 14 hours ago, JanPospisil said: This is my guess and I can't speak in any official capacity, but I'd say: iOS > PC (GoG and Steam combined) > Android Android is always the worst, because it's so easily piratable and full of shovelware. Steam is hard to break into these days, also too much shovelware. (plus the Steam port had issues) Wow. "Worst" in what way? Certainly not in terms of market share, and app store revenue is very similar between iOS and Android these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mankcam Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 (edited) Is Six Ages Gloranthan based, like KoDP was? If so, any idea of the cultures depicted here? Edited February 1, 2018 by Mankcam Quote " Sure it's fun, but it is also well known that a D20 roll and an AC is no match against a hefty swing of a D100% and a D20 Hit Location Table!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 Yes, it's Glorantha-based for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanPospisil Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 3 hours ago, Steve said: Wow. "Worst" in what way? Certainly not in terms of market share, and app store revenue is very similar between iOS and Android these days. Worst in the users/money ratio. I have both an iPad and an Android tablet (a gaming tablet actually), I love the openness of Android and love to play games on it. I fully understand why developers are hesitant to port their games on Android though - 1) rampant piracy 2) absolute floods of ad-riddled shovelware that's either free, or selling for pennies. Hard to sell a game with a 10 USD price on there. 3 hours ago, Mankcam said: Is Six Ages Gloranthan based, like KoDP was? If so, any idea of the cultures depicted here? It's set in Glorantha. Both images show a single culture. (as do most, if not all the other bits of illustrations we ever showed) Here they are: Yep: This is titled "distant past" (and it is, for the same culture) (that's all of them, I think) Not this one, as the address implies, these are "Goose people". (hard to guoosse, I know. ;P) This is clearly a troll: As is this (though there's a person of Protagonist Culture in the background) This one is not the Protagonist Culture: 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenwheeldancer Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 Wow. This looks cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Scott Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 On 31/01/2018 at 11:52 AM, goldenwheeldancer said: What platforms will this be on? As David said in the article there's no info on this deliberately as he got burned before by pre-announcing a release. Everyone should also be aware that only David Dunham can answer any of these questions as anyone else involved is under a non-disclosure agreement. You can ask questions over on his blog as I don't think he's on here. 3 Quote ----- Search the Glorantha Resource Site: https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com. Search the Glorantha mailing list archives: https://glorantha.steff.in/digests/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 1, 2018 Author Share Posted February 1, 2018 2 hours ago, JanPospisil said: Worst in the users/money ratio. I have both an iPad and an Android tablet (a gaming tablet actually), I love the openness of Android and love to play games on it. I fully understand why developers are hesitant to port their games on Android though - 1) rampant piracy 2) absolute floods of ad-riddled shovelware that's either free, or selling for pennies. Hard to sell a game with a 10 USD price on there. How many Glorantha fans who would otherwise buy Six Ages will miss out if, say, it's only on iOS? Quite a few, I would suggest. It's very easy to pirate games on PCs, and possible on iOS as well. I don't buy those as arguments not to port to those platforms, given the huge user bases involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanPospisil Posted February 1, 2018 Share Posted February 1, 2018 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Steve said: How many Glorantha fans who would otherwise buy Six Ages will miss out if, say, it's only on iOS? Quite a few, I would suggest. It's very easy to pirate games on PCs, and possible on iOS as well. I don't buy those as arguments not to port to those platforms, given the huge user bases involved. It's about numbers, right? So a certain percentage of people will buy the game on Steam for 10 bucks. (the rest will pirate it) Same on iOS. A much much smaller percentage will buy it on Android, because that's too much money for the platform. So you can either make it cheaper, or not sell as many. (both options mean making less money) Now if you're already developing multiplatform from the get go, you might be ok with that. There are still some costs to shipping a game on multiple platforms, but it's more doable. If you have to port a game you started developing on a single platform to other platforms, it's going to be some work you have to do yourself, or hire someone to do for you. Both of those options cost a certain amount of money. If you expect the sales from that platform won't even cover those expenses (or they will, but barely), you probably choose to not port to that platform. You'll have to wait and see on release, or until David talks about it more. edit: For comparison of piracy on Android and iOS: Quote "Interesting fact: Only 5% of Monument Valley installs on Android are paid for. 40% on iOS. " Piracy rate of 90-95% on Android is the most commonly reported. Quote Some may remember the case of Dead Trigger, a mobile game that debuted with a $0.99 price tag on both Android and iOS. After being hit by such an unbelievably high piracy rate, the developers had no choice but to make the Android version free. Imagine that. Because people are stealing your game so much, you're FORCED to make it free. Still think this is a good and sustainable way for people to make and sell games? Edited February 1, 2018 by JanPospisil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOB Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Robin Laws has tweeted to say he estimates the forthcoming Six Ages is the equivalent of "nine novels or four RPG corebooks worth of writing" (nearly half a million words), all set in the magical world of Glorantha! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarumath Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Looks like we are in Saird (the map, solar people, the mention of Elmal) Eurogamer said that the game is set 2000 years before King of Dragon Pass, so my theory is that we are playing Berenethtelli in the Dawn age. Quote The tribe of the Red-Haired Winter Daughter Redaylde and her horse-loving husband Bereneth the Rider. We lived in the north, in the land now called Saird. The Rams are probably southern orlanthi who worship the resurrected Orlanth and are called like that because they could be seen as a ram people by horse people, game will probably involve or even be centered on the intermarying and syncretism of the two peoples. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jajagappa Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 31 minutes ago, Tarumath said: Looks like we are in Saird Yes, looks like it! 32 minutes ago, Tarumath said: The Rams are probably southern orlanthi who worship the resurrected Orlanth Remember the Iron Ram in GRoY which broke the gates of Elempur. GRoY p.25 "The second threat, from the south, was the Ram People. They wore curled horns upon their heads, and wooly fleeces instead of clothing. They worshipped a huge iron ram, which they towed about on Wheels. They were descendants of Uldoviham, who had mated with beasts during his time in the wilderness. The Ram People came in a horde to the city of Elempur, the most southern of the Seven Cities. The people who lived there were afraid. They tried first to stop the invaders with words, but failed. Then they tried to fight, but the Ram People were more numerous. The wool-clad barbarians attacked the men of Elempur, and then they ran into the city and sacked it. They burned, raped, and pillaged wantonly. This had never been done before. Everyone was in shock except the Emperor." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alakoring Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Thanks for posting the trailer! We're a little behind on updating the web site (https://sixages.com), hope to have it finalized by the time we release. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOB Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 We're excited that Six Ages is going to be a new and engaging way to explore the richness and wonder of Glorantha, one of the most popular original game settings ever! https://www.chaosium.com/blogsix-ages-the-spiritual-successor-to-the-glorantha-game-king-of-dragon-pass-launches-on-ios-on-june-28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metcalph Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 Tries to figure out what the Six Ages are: Gray Age Dawn Broken Council Sunstop Bright Empire repression Arkati uprising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenwheeldancer Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 For IOS.... Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alakoring Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 On 6/10/2018 at 4:06 AM, metcalph said: Tries to figure out what the Six Ages are: We may have to go to 11… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g33k Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 6 hours ago, goldenwheeldancer said: For IOS.... Oh well. That's in the title; but the article says they're working on it for "other platforms," too. Quote C'es ne pas un .sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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