... of Cyanide's new game, Blood Bowl. Hah, I got you there ;) Cyanide is currently working on a new game which is called Blood Bowl. It seems to have a huge fan base, because it's based upon an old game with the same name - so this might be Cyanide's new "hit" / best seller. To me, it looks quite a lot like the old Brutal Sports Football for Amiga. It's set to be released in Q3, and it will be released for PC, XBox, Playstation Portable and Nintendo DS. Several screenshots and videos have been released to the public, and Cyanide is now inviting members of the official forum to participate in official multiplayer beta tests. There are few requirements to your PC: - At least 1 GB of RAM - Graphic Card of at least GeForce 6 - A processor of at least 3 GHz
And a few non-PC requirements: - A knowledge of the tabletop game and a desire to play the turn-based version of the computer adaptation (no real-time implemented in this version) - Being available to play at the very least 2 games a week (the more the better). A game lasts between 30 mns and 2 hours (depending how quick both players are) and you will have to play full games. - Your internet connection will have to be relatively stable (broadband is also a minimum) - Be willing to spend the time necessary to forward us the bugs found and discuss them in the forum.
Send an e-mail with your application to bloodbowl@cyanide-studio.com including a dxdiag of your computer. The testing will start in about a week. But hurry up, the thread has already reached three pages on the official forum ;)
Cyanide has sveral games, besides PCM fx. Loki, Horse racing mananger, winter challenge and pro rugby manager. But PCM was the first game that they made.
From a business point of view, the Blood Bowl license can be worth quite a lot (in european gamebusiness terms anyway) if they can pull off a great game. Besides, they need to diversify so they just arent the guys known "the creators of PCM and some minor crap".
And they did made Chaos League which wasnt all that bad, and with an official Games Workshop license in their hand, they might just get off their colective arses and make a great game.
We should also keep in mind that people are hiring new people for this game. It's not like they take people from PCM-programming and magically change them into Blood Bowl-programmers.
And from a business point of view, it's not bad to focus on more than one game As Waghlon says (in one of his very few serious comments -- I'm shocked ) Chaos League was actually a pretty good game, and with the Blood Bowl-license (meaning thounsands of entusiatic fans) Cyanide might hit a gold mine. And in the end, that will benefit us (the PCM-players) too.
We should also keep in mind that people are hiring new people for this game.
As an aspiring software engineer, im still disappointed that they keep flat out refusing my pleads for internship. Im like "hey, ill move to France, you wont have to find me a place to live, ill live on the streets. Ill bring my own chair and computer. I wont even eat in the cafeteria!". Why wont you accept me for 3 or 6 months?! WHY?!
Also, Isso: We want creditable sources before we believe you.
Also, Isso: We want creditable sources before we believe you.
The correct term would be "youtube or it didn't happen!"
you're an aspiring software engineer? in what sense? the "I'm getting a degree" sense? or the "I don't know jack squat about it but I'm making jokes about it" sense?
More like "I cant be bothered to study for another 4 years, so im gonna program a lot of tech demos with Shaders 3.0 and physics engines. Maybe help someone with a shitty MMO, enter som mod teams. Just generally build a portfolio whilst smooching with the department of new hirings in various companies" kinda guy.
p3druh: I think that you will find that many are playing both the boardgame and the JavaBBowl version online. And by many i mean a god damn lot. Cyanide wont have trouble finding or making a fanbase with that precious license in their hands.
Still, I don't think it will have a bigger established fan base than PCM... There are many of us in the every forum but there are a lot of PCM-players that either don't have internet or simply aren't registed in any forum...
I'm not saying it won't be a good investiment for Cyanide but I think this won't be that PES, N4S, CoD, CS game that will take Cyanide to the top...
That's why I'm saying that I don't think they will or should invest too much in this game beacuse it's not gonna take Cyanide to the next level of game companies...
p3druh, you missed my point: They are a niche game company. Occasionally, some people or companies might not even want to go the next level if they like their current position.
Look at the article... The game is cracked up to be a "best-seller", and will be launched for PC, XBox, Playstation Portable and Nintendo DS... This makes this game a big investiment, unlike anyother Cyanide game... No company in the position of Cyanide would dare make this game unless they wanted to jump to a higher level because it's simply not feasible for a company with their resources...
It is certainly an investment, but as said, I don't think we should underestimate it. I was even considering starting a bbdaily-website, simply because I can see where it's going. The English forum is very active, and it's only a matter of time before all the old Blood Bowl-guys show up and make it even more active.
But time will tell. Personally, I'm expecting a lot.
