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Blood Bowl developer Cyanide reckons there is a "niche market" ready to gobble-up conversions of tabletop games. And not just Games Workshop licences, but ones such as Necromunda, Space Hulk, Man O'War and "plenty of others".
"If Games Workshop continues to trust us, then sure, why not," Cyanide's Antoine Villepreux told Eurogamer when asked if the collaboration might continue. "They have got other 'forgotten' IPs that we think deserve videogame adaptations."
Blood Bowl - a gory, fantasy take on American Football with orcs and elves - has been converted by Cyanide for PC, Xbox 360, PSP and DS, complete with classic turn-based mode as well as a faster Blitz mode.
Each version has multiplayer, we're told, although the PC will boast a world ladder as well as private, player-customised leagues.
"It's fun, strategically deep and we believe it deserves more attention beyond Blood Bowl's pre-existing fanbase," added Villepreux.
Blood Bowl is due out later this summer and may or may not be given a demo. Cyanide is also considering using DRM for the PC version as "piracy is a real concern" for a smaller company, apparently.
Cyanide would love to expand Blood Bowl indefinitely, but told us this depended on commercial success.
"The Blood Bowl universe is extremely rich," concluded Villepreux, "and we have many post-release content plans in the pipeline."
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midnight_walker
29/04/09 @ 07:48
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"And not just Games Workshop licences, but ones such as Necromunda, Space Hulk, Man O'War and "plenty of others"."
Necromunda, Space Hulk and Man O' War are all Games Workshop licenses... |
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Yoghurt_Pot
29/04/09 @ 08:24
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Carwars, Forever looking at Steve Jacksons web site to see if anything has materialised.
Could be awesome. |
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I spent a lot of time playing Blood Bowl, Necromunda and the like which is why I think I've taken to Strategy RPGs quite readily. It would be nice to see them brought to the digital world, but at the same time that would seem to miss the point somewhat, as creating your team/squad/army/whatever is quite a large factor in these games.
I'll probably check out Blood Bowl though, as I have some friends who are still quite keen on it. |
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PhoenixMDK
29/04/09 @ 10:32
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midnight_walker:
"And not just Games Workshop licences, but ones such as Necromunda, Space Hulk, Man O'War and "plenty of others"." Necromunda, Space Hulk and Man O' War are all Games Workshop licenses... That was my first thought too! For people apparently keen on acquiring the licence they sound rather confused. A while back I was quite keen on a Necromunda videogame adaptation, though now I suspect it would basically be a cross between Fallout 3 and Duke Nukem. If they could really nail the gangs, it might work best as an MMO with more than the usual good/evil split. Although (or perhaps because) it's been years since I played, what I'd like to see done with the Warhammer franchise is a full conversion of the ruleset which allows players to select tweak their entire army/heroes/items and play out a battle. Fine-tuning army selection was half the fun for me.
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Kings and Things! On DS!
I'd kill for a good Car Wars conversion. Or even the GW equivalent Dark Future. Also a turn-based core Warhammer Fantasy 3d tabletop simulation complete with army painter, terrain modeller and animated replays, although they'd never go for such direct competition with the miniatures sales. |
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And not just Games Workshop licences, but ones such as Necromunda, Space Hulk, Man O'War and "plenty of others"."
Necromunda, Space Hulk and Man O' War are all Games Workshop licenses... If I remember correctly they are actually now owned by the Black Library which is an offshot of GamesWorkshop and they have the creative rights to them. GamesWorkshop own the trademarks but the games themselves aren't Games Workshop licenses. |
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LowEnergyCycle
29/04/09 @ 13:44
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@Bubbler
"Wonder if Capcom will resurrect their old plans to develop Talisman (of which I have many fond memories in my more formative years!) Shit! I've been recently playing this a lot with some mates - one of which has had it on extended loan from his neighbour. It's a fucking awesome game, especially with the separate Realms add-on (I forget the name). |
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Silvervein
29/04/09 @ 15:38
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@DFawkes
You are on to something here, I think. BattleFleet Gothic using Nexus: Jupiter Incident engine and gameplay...I think it might have been very, very good :) |
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zoolophage
30/04/09 @ 06:02
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I'm kind of looking forward to Blood Bowl, although I don't expect it'll be that great for some reason. Probably it'll be a speedball/american football mishmash that'll fail to make the grade. Hope I'm wrong, though.
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@lowenergycycle
"Shit! I've been recently playing this a lot with some mates - one of which has had it on extended loan from his neighbour. It's a fucking awesome game, especially with the separate Realms add-on (I forget the name). ignore poster" Remeber the ad-ons too! Had a space vortex type one, city expansion and some of the extra card packs. Just setting down all the boards & kit on the table was an event in itself... and here they are http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/714 Talisman The Adventure Talisman Expansion Set Talisman Dragons Talisman City Talisman Dungeon Talisman Timescape
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LowEnergyCycle
30/04/09 @ 11:27
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@Bubbler
Yeah I know what you mean - it's a 20min clean up job to pack the bugger away. It turns out (according to your link) that we're playing Talisman 3rd Edition with the City Adventure and Dungeon of Doom expansion packs, which gives you four extra board pieces (Realms) and 12 extra characters. I didn't realise how expensive this lot was going for nowadays. Dungeon of Doom can fetch around $160 on its own! We've been playing it whilst getting pissed for a few months, simply because setting up Warhammer armies / battles is such a bitch when you're inebriated ;) |
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I'll buy any GW games they make. I'd love to revisit all the different games I played as a kid. Going digital will surely be cheaper than all the money I spent of the games, figs and paint.
For a Car Wars type game check out http://www.dark-wind.com/ Pretty neat free to play car combat game that is turn based. |
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