A small request....:)

Velociryx · April 9, 2002, 22:07

'evening all!

Just wanted to make a small on-topic/off-topic request here and explain why the request is being made.

I was wondering if I could interest anybody who's gotten ahold of and enjoyed the SMAX guide to head to the booksurge site and perhaps jot down a few words in the way of a review?

The reason I'm asking is that I'm getting more and more deeply involved in the new company, Velocigames, and we're inching steadily closer to having a playable demo. Still some ways off, but it's coming...and it's gonna be awesome.....

So...what I'm hoping is, that I can make use of some favorable reviews from my publication work (Smax guide, soon to be released Guardians, and not long after, Five Days in May), to help get some attention focused on the Courts of Candle'Bre when it's ready to roll....

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

http://www.booksurge.com/author.php3...ntID=GRTU00118

-=Vel=-

ravagon · April 9, 2002, 23:08

I'd be happy to give it a shot (even though to date I only have the version that appeared here).

I think I'd rather not be the first one up to the plate though. Its a little intimidating

Lefty Scaevola · April 9, 2002, 23:11

How about:

"I got the smax guide by Velocyrix and now the BABES are all over me. I having so much sex now I hardly have time to work. Every time I read a new chapter, I get a couple of new super models or other hot babes. All this and I have not even read the chapter on fusion powered implant enhancement or quantum powered sex toys yet."

ravagon · April 9, 2002, 23:35

It's going to be hard to top that one ...

Capt Dizle · April 10, 2002, 02:10

I am George W. Bush and I bought Vel's strategy guide and it has changed my life.

His tips taught me which faction to choose to get double votes and how to bribe effectively. Can you say Florida baby! Ali bye bye.

The boost in my commerce rating from being planetary president is buff.

I have read and reread his section on the metagame. Applying his tips I am now using my puppet governments in the Middle East to soften up that region prior to lauching my final invasion.

I'll never be able to thank Vel enough for giving me that idea of building punishment spheres for all these liberal drones. Can you say nerve staple Hillary?

Vel's book is better'n Nolan Ryan in heat

, but you got to be careful trying to read it and eat. I like to choked to death on a pretzel looking at those pics of Dee running naked.

Velociryx · April 10, 2002, 11:43

Ohhh man did I ever need a laugh, and those were....jaw dropping! ::shaking my head::

You guys rock! LOL...Although now I'm QUITE curious as to what, if anything I'll find over at booksurge....think I might mosey that way....

-=Vel=-

Ogie Oglethorpe · April 10, 2002, 13:02

Done

Submitted

Og

Lefty Scaevola · April 10, 2002, 13:52

Do you really want me to put that reveiw there, it might not be entirely appropriate, after all I have only read your former SMAC guide, not the one for SMAC-X.

Ogie Oglethorpe · April 10, 2002, 17:08

Ummm Vel,

How does one see what reviews folks have done so far?

Just interested.

Velociryx · April 10, 2002, 17:21

Brother Og! Thank ya man! I *do* appreciate it!

Now...as to your question....Hmmm...I don't know! LOL....just tried to find that out, and saw no means of doing so from the site proper, so I shot an e-mail over to the folks at Booksurge inquiring about that....will update ya here as soon as I hear back from them!

And Lefty...lol...sure....that sounds like a MOST intriguing endorsement...

-=Vel=-

Lefty Scaevola · April 10, 2002, 20:13

Well, I submitted it, but i do not think it pass muster. You get this message when you submit.

"Thank you for your submission. It will be reviewed shortly. Please note that all submissions must be screened for inappropriate content. Due to this, your review will not be displayed on the site immediately."

Alex · April 11, 2002, 08:22

Vel, nice to see you again! I'll submit my review to the site as soon as I can (I'm at work now), even though I only have your original version (SMAC-only).

SITS · April 11, 2002, 11:37

Done!

Velociryx · April 11, 2002, 13:40

Thanks again guys! And brother Og! Yours is the first official reader review, and is up on the booksurge site! Thanks man!

-=Vel=-

Ogie Oglethorpe · April 11, 2002, 13:44

I'm honored to be of service. 'course it would have been better if i spell checked (definitive instead of difinitive). Ahhh well.....

Velociryx · April 15, 2002, 17:03

Not to worry, brother Og! And I'm happy to say that Og's review has been joined by two others! With these in hand, and whatever others may follow, I feel as though I'm arming up quite nicely to tackle the even greater challenge of building an entirely new game and getting the word out.

I loved writing the SMAX guide, no doubt about that. And part of what I loved about it was that it was a genuinely hard thing. Difficult to figure out how to say, what to say, what order to say things in so that it would not be totally overwhelming to someone coming into the game sight unseen.

Having done that though, and with these high marks reviews in hand, I think I'm pretty well positioned to try my hand at something even harder.

Envisioning a game world, detailing it sufficiently myself, and through endless rounds of discussion with the other members of Velocigames that people with skills I don't posess (coding, art, etc) can help me breathe life into it....and doing that is a tough thing by itself, but to do all that in a way that the end result is addictive and fun to play....that's a rare bird, but we're inching closer.

Every day, we're inching closer....

Thanks to everyone who's written in so far, and to those who may decide to later.

Your words here on a guide that has nothing in particular to do with the game I'm working on, will prove to be instrumental in its success....and for that, I cannot thank you enough....

-=Vel=-

Chowlett · April 15, 2002, 19:10

Erm - sorry abut my continuing lack of doing anything. Uni's taking a lot more time that I expected. Silly really, here I am at a top university, doing a well-hard degree with only a (relatively) moderate intelligence, a programming project to be handed in in, oh, a fortnight and exams in a month and a half - and I've got no spare time! What is the world coming to...

I may just about get a play-test game done at some point, but otherwise I'm well out for the moment.

ravagon · April 15, 2002, 23:20

Mines there too. Rereading it methinks it may've gone a bit overboard. Oh well. At least I spelled definitive correctly.

Darnit. I guess Lefty's didn't make it. What a pity ...

Fitz · April 16, 2002, 13:04

My review should be up shortly. I kept it short, but I tried hard to pull out the stops on my professionalese.

It's definately the best game guide I have ever seen Vel. Make sure to keep us up on what's happening with yer gaming company.

Velociryx · April 16, 2002, 22:05

Will do guys, and again...thank you....

-=Vel=-

Velociryx · April 17, 2002, 14:39

As requested, an update on Velocigames:

Just spent the weekend checking out a little town nestled in the mountains of North Carolina, and I think it'd make the PERFECT home for the tiny company.

Saluda, NC, perm. pop 577

It's beautiful, less than an hour's drive from four full-fledged cities (more like half an hour, truth be told), LOTS of beautiful, inspiring scenery to keep the creative juices flowing, and there's a building on main street that's been standing empty for approximately three years that would be PERFECT! It's recently been restored, and is an old Train Depot....had the pleasure of talking with the folks down at City Hall, the local Constabulatory forces (four in all, with one car between them), checked out three of the six restaurants in town, and got a feel for the locals....I like the place! Definite potential there!

Pictures available soon on my website of the town, the building I've got my eye on, and other sites about town....

-=Vel=-

Fitz · April 17, 2002, 18:22

I forgot to ask an important question. Are you guys hiring?

Velociryx · April 19, 2002, 09:25

Hiya Fitz! Actually, yes we are (in a manner of speaking). No money yet, but the folks that are involved with the project at this stage are guaranteed a seat on the train when we pull out of the station toward incorporation.

At this stage, what we're really short on are Artists to make the game look pretty and a sound guy. Out of twenty people we've got writers, testers, coders in fairly plentiful supply, but only two artists and no one on sound....yet!

-=Vel=-