A Cybergeneration Leap Forward

I elected not to write another article on Decipher's new CCG Fight Klub as my latest post, rather I'll point you to a 2-part post by Rick Cummings that outlines my thoughts almost point for point. Rick and I share the same concerns although I am probably a little more willing to throw around terms like batshit crazy for the marketing strategy of letting 15-year olds sell your game across the internet, and get banned from every gaming forum, message board and web site known in the process - which only further sullies the Decipher name. But as I said I wasn't going to write about Fight Klub.

What I am going to do is put in a plug for the next CyberGeneration offering I am working busily on. As mentioned in previous posts, Denver: Mile High Dragon is in art and Clarkers will soon follow it (once it's completed). The third project on the go is Sydney: Dreamtime Download, set, you guessed it in Sydney, Australia. The Manuscript is already bigger than both Denver and Clarkers and is only about 80% complete. When finished it will take CyberGeneration beyond the ISA for the first time and provide an alternative city/country in which to play the game. You will of course be able to rework most of it and turn it into almost any major metropolis you choose.

One interesting element though is I have taken 3 of the traditional Yogang types and given them an Australian spin as well as added a new one. Gogangers have become RevHeads, Neo-Pioneers have become Jacks, and Boardpunks have become Skegs. There's also a new Evolved type called Scrappers - characters who can ingest everything from rock to metal and derive nourishment from it. One of their specialist tricks is regurgitating a corrosive hexite bile that can eat away at most things, from flesh to metal. Anyone remember that scene in The Fly?

This is certainly the most detailed of the CyberGeneration material I have written to date and I'd like to see it as a launching pad for several additional city sourcebooks not based in the ISA. I already have ideas for a London Sourcebook....