Cyanide, GW, and the future of bloodbowl
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2015 3:26 pm
So it looks like Games Workshop will be giving Cyanide permissions to modify Blood Bowl, beyond just creating the Khorne team, moving forward. Thoughts?
http://www.pcgamesn.com/blood-bowl-2/it ... blood-bowl
“This game is alive,” said Séchi, proudly. In fact, what Cyanide would like Blood Bowl II to be is a live game - one they can update and refine over years just as Blizzard and Riot Games do StarCraft and League of Legends.
“In board gaming you release a rulebook every five years and there are a couple of changes,” said the designer. “In video games, you see something that is wrong, patch one of the rules, see how the game reacts to it and push out another fix.”
Cyanide plan to build on this “surgical” approach with new races from the Warhammer universe - teams who have never before set foot on the field of Blood Bowl. That begins at launch with the Bretonnians, pieced together alongside Games Workshop with reference to a fan-developed rulebook.
That relationship with Games Workshop, by the way, is now “excellent”. Where in the beginning everything was subject to validation, Cyanide are now allowed to take the lead.
“For Blood Bowl II were have very strong mutual trust,” said Séchi. “Obviously we’re very happy to work with them, and I strongly believe they are very happy with what we are doing.”
http://www.pcgamesn.com/blood-bowl-2/it ... blood-bowl
“This game is alive,” said Séchi, proudly. In fact, what Cyanide would like Blood Bowl II to be is a live game - one they can update and refine over years just as Blizzard and Riot Games do StarCraft and League of Legends.
“In board gaming you release a rulebook every five years and there are a couple of changes,” said the designer. “In video games, you see something that is wrong, patch one of the rules, see how the game reacts to it and push out another fix.”
Cyanide plan to build on this “surgical” approach with new races from the Warhammer universe - teams who have never before set foot on the field of Blood Bowl. That begins at launch with the Bretonnians, pieced together alongside Games Workshop with reference to a fan-developed rulebook.
That relationship with Games Workshop, by the way, is now “excellent”. Where in the beginning everything was subject to validation, Cyanide are now allowed to take the lead.
“For Blood Bowl II were have very strong mutual trust,” said Séchi. “Obviously we’re very happy to work with them, and I strongly believe they are very happy with what we are doing.”