thread: 2011-09-20 : Deep Dark Vincent-burning Game Design
On 2011-09-21, Moreno R. wrote:
You did get more hate mail with Poison'd than with Kill Puppies For Satan? Why did you not make a web page of that one, too? :-)
I am still a fan of Dogs in the Vineyard as your best game. I suppose I am a traditionalist at heart, I like old games... (and Westerns). I played both Poison'd (with Graham, once) and AW, though.
The impression I get is that you stepped back with AW not so much on the "sex and violence" dial, as on the "Hollywood dial". poison'd was completely anti-Hollywood, anti any gamers expectations. While AW is, at least at face value, much more gamer-friendly. In AW you are a cool guy, you do cool things, you have bullets and gasoline, and bad people to shoot... gamers heaven!
In AW there is even more violence than in Poison'd. But in AW you get "xp" for that... (it's funny that most gamers think of AW as the most moral of the two... ;-) )
But pirates, cars, bondage gear, machine-guns... tsk, I would choose a old Colt Dragoon Gun, a Horse, and a John Ford sunset any day!
