A Small Gaming Thing
Gareth Michael Skarka has gotten some unlove for the fact that he's doing the game version of Perdido Street Station, or at least feels he has, so I want to take a second to voice a public vote of confidence.
I do not do this because GMS is a super nice guy or because of his love of puppies. That has no particular bearing on the topic.
Instead I lay down this vote in the form of the music and spoken world CD for the Underworld RPG. Yes. I liked that game so much that I bought the dorkiest thing imaginable for it. And I'm proud of it.The game had warts, but it also captured the tone and style it was shooting for to a T, and it provided a practical assessment of the genre that I have only seen matched by Chad Underkoffler or Ken Hite's genre treatments*. That's a damn high bar.
I know people have butted heads with him in th epast, and I am offering no judgment on those disagreements. But the truth of the matter is, as far as I'm concerned, that the guy who did Underground is _exactly_ the guy you want doing Perdido Street Station.
* I'm not counting Jess Nevins in this. He has super powers, so it would be unfair.
I do not do this because GMS is a super nice guy or because of his love of puppies. That has no particular bearing on the topic.
Instead I lay down this vote in the form of the music and spoken world CD for the Underworld RPG. Yes. I liked that game so much that I bought the dorkiest thing imaginable for it. And I'm proud of it.The game had warts, but it also captured the tone and style it was shooting for to a T, and it provided a practical assessment of the genre that I have only seen matched by Chad Underkoffler or Ken Hite's genre treatments*. That's a damn high bar.
I know people have butted heads with him in th epast, and I am offering no judgment on those disagreements. But the truth of the matter is, as far as I'm concerned, that the guy who did Underground is _exactly_ the guy you want doing Perdido Street Station.
* I'm not counting Jess Nevins in this. He has super powers, so it would be unfair.