DogLadyHeather

The Heatherest Of Heathers

shitpost doggo extraordinaire

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PLAYING:
Final Fantasy V
Sonic Superstars
Marathon Infinity

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WATCHING:
My Little Pony
Game Of Thrones (rewatch)
Random Horror Films

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LISTENING:
Last.FM Recently Played

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friend to all who find me as a random encounter


ive been watching john romero interviews and it's always funny that Blackroom's become this elephant no-no question in the room. i feel like anybody mentioning it in the chat would get men in blacked at their house.

i do wonder what happened though. Blackroom was an FPS kickstarter created by johnny himself and a returning adrian carmack that clunked quite hard. it did the usual KS sins of not providing any gameplay or concepts beyond a pitch and had a very funny video of john and adrian DRAMATICALLY meeting each other in a field. all the hallmarks of a campaign resting on developer reputation.

the game died after romero halted donations, promising to get a demo ready and yet, nothing more since. we've never gotten confirmation of what exactly happened but my guess is lack of publisher support. john likely realized the KS campaign poisoned the well and the $700,000 goal wasn't getting hit. fascinating bit of forgotten history.


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