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TimovieMan - 27 November 2013 04:08 PM

Karlok - 27 November 2013 11:18 AM

Anyway, the two of them are working on 7 or 8 games.

...and finishing none.

They really should notice the pattern and actually do something about it.
Or maybe they don’t care about revenue???

And their ever diminishing number of fans.

TimovieMan - 27 November 2013 04:08 PM

Karlok - 27 November 2013 11:18 AM

Anyway, the two of them are working on 7 or 8 games.

...and finishing none.

They really should notice the pattern and actually do something about it.
Or maybe they don’t care about revenue???

That’s a good point: the games are going to look more and more dated the longer the development phase goes on. No one will pay full price for something looks like it belongs in a bargain bin.

Bonsai - 27 November 2013 10:59 AM

tsa - 27 November 2013 07:40 AM

I follow Jonathan Boakes on Facebook

If you followed him on Twitter you would know his little Halloween game is now Blackenrock, a full-length Adventure on the scale of The Lost Crown.

Which is even more worrying because he also started on the third Crown game a couple of months ago and The Last Crown has been in a nearly ready state for more than two years now.
I’m sorry but I lost all faith in both Clark and Boakes releasing anything soon.

As others have also said, I’ll buy the games when they come out regardless if they’re late.  The graphics for the Lost Crown were more than serviceable, and I doubt they will be worse for the upcoming titles.

However, what concerns me is that J. Boakes has indicated he wants to market the Halloween Haunting/Blackenrock game to facilitate the completion of the Last Crown.  And here I thought the Last Crown was almost done….  Quite possibly it will never see the light of day if he needs to sell other games to finance it.  Moreover, he’s now doing the same thing to Blackenrock as he is doing for the Last Crown - adding more and more and diluting his efforts with other initiatives.  I don’t expect to see Blackenrock for a year or more either.

FW

Boakes has a Twitter account which is pupolated with all sorts of quaint details about his goings-on, and very occasionally insights into the development of TLaC.
https://twitter.com/jonathanboakes/
Of note a gameplay video dated last May.

As for Bracken Tor…. no idea whatsoever.

I was just wondering the same thing. The Lost Crown was supposed to be released at the end of the year. Of course that’s still possible, but, like last year, it will probably be another year later…

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing. I first got into the adventure gaming scene about 5 years ago and there appeared a surfeit of the type of atmospheric, spooky games I (and countless others) really enjoy: TLC, The Darkfall trilogy, Rhiannon, Barrow Hill, Scratches, etc. I played them all, and yet since then there has been next to nothing. Bracken Tor was an absolute debacle, Coven just stopped, Asylum is always a year away and TLC has become a soap opera of gloriously demented proportions with one game becoming three and none of them seeing the light of day. I read Boakes’ blog and I am aware he is putting a great deal of time and effort into this next game, which, admittedly looks great. But all I seem to have been reading about for the past year is he’s continually putting the finishing touches to it. My frustration has increased because there is nothing of a similar nature to play. With the delays and changes that have beset these games, I cannot feel any excitement for the deluge of Kickstarters which seem to fill these boards. Perhaps I’ve become cynical in my old age, but I don’t want to invest any kind of emotion in the potential of a game, if I don’t feel it will actually get finished. Alas, rather than the treat of a new game, it looks like the empty trick of another missed deadline is all I’ll be experiencing this Halloween.

Lermontov - 20 October 2014 02:40 PM

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing. I first got into the adventure gaming scene about 5 years ago and there appeared a surfeit of the type of atmospheric, spooky games I (and countless others) really enjoy: TLC, The Darkfall trilogy, Rhiannon, Barrow Hill, Scratches, etc. I played them all, and yet since then there has been next to nothing. Bracken Tor was an absolute debacle, Coven just stopped, Asylum is always a year away and TLC has become a soap opera of gloriously demented proportions with one game becoming three and none of them seeing the light of day. I read Boakes’ blog and I am aware he is putting a great deal of time and effort into this next game, which, admittedly looks great. But all I seem to have been reading about for the past year is he’s continually putting the finishing touches to it. My frustration has increased because there is nothing of a similar nature to play. With the delays and changes that have beset these games, I cannot feel any excitement for the deluge of Kickstarters which seem to fill these boards. Perhaps I’ve become cynical in my old age, but I don’t want to invest any kind of emotion in the potential of a game, if I don’t feel it will actually get finished. Alas, rather than the treat of a new game, it looks like the empty trick of another missed deadline is all I’ll be experiencing this Halloween.

You’re not the only one. Lots of people have complained about both The Lost Crown and Bracken Tor never coming out. There is a separate thread about The Lost Crown/Bracken Tor here: http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/viewthread/58/
Maybe a mod can merge the two threads.