Head Beyond The Gates Of Antares With Rick Priestly’s New Game
December 28, 2012 by brennon
Rick Priestly has a new game on the horizon created by his new company Dark Space Corp. This game is Beyond The Gates of Antares and it's sounding pretty damn awesome...
This game is the first that is boasting it's a 'real-time dynamic game universe' where every battle you fight will add to the continuing background and unfolding story within the game universe. Much like during one of Games Workshop's campaigns you can log your results on the website and this will influence how things change.
Obviously with a game having such lofty ambitions a good place to start is Kickstarter and above you can see one of the rewards for the Starter Box. The actual Kickstarter will be hitting in around three days so look out for it.
The real question though is whether or not this concept will run properly! It's certainly open to a lot of exploitation if gamers wanted to do so, but I reckon if could be fun.
Are you excited for this?
Oh yes I recall the GW campaigns and yes people took extreme pleasure breaking it. If I recall people would fill in false reports or just play people that where weak in order to fudge the numbers so the army they played looked better off than they really where. Its in the nature of us gamers to want to win sometimes at any cost, even if it means cheating and destroying the integrity of the game.
I shore hope that they can avoid what GW faced back in the day. We shall see in time.
Rick is a real gamers gamer. I suspect he cares not for those who wish to screw with the system by making stuff up to look good. He just wants to tell a good story and play some cool games. Look at his philosophy for HC & BP. He didn’t even want to use points values to balance armies. I wonder if this will be a very niche game that appeals to people with his sort of values….sounds good to me then.
Thumbs up for values WOOT!!!