Page 1 of 1

The Somalia Incident

PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:40 am
by kylesgames
I've just posted the first teaser for this game on my site (which immediately hit a bump with Google's "let's check for terms-of-use violations" thing even though I'm well in the clear, so I may as well give it to you guys as well.



If you click, it'll take you to the big version where you can actually see the fancy stuff, this one has pretty low detail.

The Somalia Incident will come before Orchestra in the same universe but along a different timeline, and basically is everything moving horribly toward where things in Orchestra start out.

Some quick notes:

Technically, ITER is supposed to provide profitable fusion in 2019, but the listed event is more akin to DEMO on a military level. This will be noted in the text of a "how we got here" section.

A lot of people will wonder why Israel didn't get a whole ton of military help-this is due to their usage of chemical and biological warfare to try to keep the invaders at bay, which in turn led to people not wanting to help them militarily. This doesn't mean they're entirely without allies, however, as we see by 2030.

In addition, the US wanted to ensure an oil supply despite being on generally good terms with Israel, hence not doing much.

The game is very US-Middle East centric, but there will probably be a supplement or a section talking about other parts of the world. Since the US was the first to really use the tech that inspired the game, at least in-universe, they get most of the focus on the timeline because they're facilitating their production and use.

Trivia: Right after I made Al-Shabaab the really, really bad guys in the timeline I checked the news and discovered they had placed a bounty of 10 goats on President Obama. Fluke or savvy?

Re: The Somalia Incident

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 2:16 am
by misterecho
I've been fighting the MEC in Battlefield 2 for years! Seems my training is coming to fruition.

Re: The Somalia Incident

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 6:38 am
by Onix
The euro may fall before you predicted. Maybe its the euro attempt number 2? :shock:

Re: The Somalia Incident

PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:15 pm
by kylesgames
Again, this was from a couple weeks ago before I'd seen all the horrible stuff on the news.

Progress on stuff may be slowed by a (potentially) broken keyboard- if my "a" key holds up I should be able to do normal stuff fine, but if it returns to glitching out like it has been and putting a billion "a" inputs in whenever I type on it (it's slightly better now, it tends to come and go), I could have issues.

That said, it's been getting progressively better after some maintenance, rather thaan progressively worse, so we'll see how it works after a couple days.

Re: The Somalia Incident

PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:50 pm
by kylesgames
Shameless bump, but Egypt went over to the Muslim Brotherhood. Guess who's getting integrated into the Islamic League (ahead of schedule, no less)?

Re: The Somalia Incident

PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 5:46 am
by Onix
Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with it, I just think you need to accelerate your time line.

Re: The Somalia Incident

PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:38 pm
by kylesgames
The timeline is oriented around tech rather than socio-economics, which probably means I should realign some of the dates.