rpanonmod ([personal profile] rpanonmod) wrote in [community profile] rpanons2014-02-21 09:57 pm

Unfunny wanky stereotypes

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Re: GAME IDEAS

(Anonymous) 2014-02-27 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm showing exactly who I am to old hands of the game by telling backstory but I don't really care, it's pretty interesting.

The original TST was back in the olden days of LJRP and was horrifying to be perfectly honest, don't look for it it embarrasses me with how bad most of us were back then. But it was originally just a steampunk-esque game with actual ships in the water, not airships (so it was not a Sky Tides, but we took the initials as tribute). It'd been created by the same brain that originally helped with games like Paixao and Amat (and a few others but they've since disappeared afaik, I haven't spoken with them in years).

But the original playerbase lost contact with the headmod after they had... well, essentially dropped the game and left it for us to try and manage (and eventually let die, because there was only one mod that was trying to run it out of the original four and there was only a handful of players even interested in trying to keep it going). After a while, though, the handful remaining decided to try and revive it. The headmod magically appeared after months of radio silence to get angry that we'd been trying to remember what the hell the passwords were, we threw our hands up, and went off to make Sky Tides in honor of a good game that had died before its time instead of trying to do a direct reboot.

TST 2.0 had a modteam of seven people and lasted for only a couple months because of how goddamn chaotic things were. TST 2.1 had a modteam of I think four and we actually got things running properly and implemented a really good plot. I left after a while, though, and never got to see the endgame. I'm just really glad that it got to run its course, rather than get dropped like it originally did.

Looking back on it now it all is just kind of ridiculous, but tl;dr reboots and tribute games are not foreign to TST's history.