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Our initial proposal was a humble one - a reveal-all AMA with George Ziets, probably the only person at inXile who still has our community's trust. Jim told us he was seeking to make peace with the Codex, and that he was willing to hear our demands. It may not be a coincidence that shortly after its release, we received an entreaty from inXile PR representative Jim Redner. And now that it has been a month and a half since the release of Torment: Tides of Numenera, it's quite clear that the game has not been a success. RPG Codex Report: A Codexian Visit to inXile EntertainmentĮver since Techland canceled our interview with Brian Fargo last year, our relations with InXile have been strained, to say the least.

It was also clear from the record-breaking final take of $4.19m that no way was this suddenly much bigger game coming out in a year. 'We didn't even have enough stretch goals ready so we were just scrambling to get stuff put in there,' says McComb - a point which came back to bite them in the bum. Money flooded in so quickly the team struggled to keep up. Torment: Tides of Numenera was funded in six hours, smashing its $900,000 goal. 'And I'm watching the scene, and I'm watching the Kickstarter on the screen right next to me, and the numbers are going up and I was just like, 'Holy crap! What's going on?!''

TIDES OF NUMENERA TV TROPES MOVIE

'There's a montage scene in that movie where the band is just skyrocketing and they're jumping up the bestseller charts,' he says.

Adam Heine was watching the 1996 Tom Hanks film 'That Thing You Do' at the time it all started. The campaign went live on March 6th 2013. Would Planescape: Torment fans go for it? 'Or,' McComb says, 'would they say, 'Oh my god you guys are just vultures picking at a carcass?'' Things started falling into place, and after weeks of working on spec, the Kickstarter make or break day arrived. In pondering the answer, McComb and Heine created their design pillars and nailed their essential question, 'What does one life matter?' (Planescape: Torment asked 'What can change the nature of a man?') McComb also realised the Numenera RPG he was helping his friend Monte Cook with might make a fantastic setting for his own game. 'It's not just save the world, it's save all of creation.' It just wasn't Torment. the universe.' Problem was, 'it was too epic', he adds. 'Your job was to go and retrieve his pieces before the Angel of Entropy - which became the Sorrow - destroyed them all and wiped out. That story had a Changing God even back then, although as an actual god rather than a man who discovered a kind of immortality through cloning and consciousness transfer. You create your own world and as ambitious a story as you can manage. Where do you begin making a successor to Planescape: Torment when you don't have the weird Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting of Planescape? You go big. Oh, and there is talk of the missing stretch goal content - so hold your horses, it's coming. Be warned! There are massive spoilers ahead. If you screw that up then your reputation is ruined forever.'īut he agreed, emailed Heine - 'do you want in?' - and the rest is a history I will be going over in detail here. I know how people feel about Planescape: Torment - I know how I feel about Planescape: Torment. 'I can't believe what you're asking me to do here.

'Holy crap, Brian!' was McComb's reaction. And I was curious if you would be interested in working on that. 'I've registered Torment as a trademark, I managed to pick that up. Well, McComb got it, and not long after he got a phone call from inXile boss Brian Fargo. They weren't even really in the business of making games anymore - Heine lived and still lives in Thailand raising orphans, and the reason McComb had stuck around was to ask Chris Avellone about getting a job, writing for Wasteland 2. McComb didn't know he would be creative lead and Adam Heine didn't know he was going to be design lead. We'd assembled for a Planescape: Torment postmortem podcast, and now, five years on, we're here to look back on the development of Torment: Tides of Numenera for a podcast - and written article - too.īack then no one had any idea Torment: Tides of Numenera was going to be made. I had been speaking to them, and others, about Planescape: Torment, a game they all helped make.

They were Chris Avellone and Colin McComb. One 4am nearly five years ago I ended a Skype call and went to sleep, but two of the people I was chatting to stuck around.

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