For the past four days, Obsidian has teased a mystery project on their home page.
FORBES: Obsidian Launches Original RPG 'Project Eternity' On Kickstarter
This calls to mind the agreement Obsidian had with Bethesda when it developed Fallout: New Vegas.
Hikers pass through a variety of landscapes, through lava fields, across black obsidian ridges and over mountain-tops.
Ultra-sharp scalpels used in delicate procedures like eye surgery are still crafted by hand from volcanic glass called obsidian.
Tying social media into the project, Obsidian came up with the Mega Dungeon.
With just seven hours left, Obsidian can safely call this drive a success.
As chance would have it, I noticed a Tweet from Obsidian Entertainment.
Under the terms of that contract, Obsidian would only receive royalties if the game scored 85 or better on Metacritic.
It missed that score by one point, leaving Obsidian holding the bag for what many considered an excellent, if buggy, title.
The RPG, which would have been developed by Obsidian, was later cancelled.
Mouthless, carved from pale limestone, with obsidian eyes in sunken sockets and hands clasped to his groin, he resembled a wasted snowman.
Project Eternity, by Obsidian Entertainment, is scheduled for an April 2014 release.
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"Publius", blogging at Obsidian Wings, advises the left to choose its battles carefully, for fear of losing the entire healthcare reform bill.
Not only is Obsidian a great RPG developer, but Trey Parker and Matt Stone would be doing the writing for the game themselves.
This garbage death ray reduces trash volume by 99%, not even leaving ash behind just 20 pounds of obsidian for every ton of trash disintegrated.
Better still, Obsidian can take their own time with Project Eternity, hopefully avoiding the bugs and other issues that have plagued previous Obsidian titles.
FORBES: Obsidian Launches Original RPG 'Project Eternity' On Kickstarter
"We're Napa people, but the quality here is just so much better, " says Beckstoffer, striding over his red-dirt and obsidian hillside in nearby Lake County.
Now, he is back working with his many of his former colleagues at Obsidian Entertainment, with a hand in the upcoming Project Eternity, and seems significantly happier.
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An eleventh-hour push from game developer Obsidian helped tip the scales in, quite literally, the last few minutes of the drive, and the Roguelike game was funded.
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And we, as consumers, face these sheer walls, smooth as glass, edifices of obsidian, crystal, and silver that reach up to the sky, blocking all but a tiny patch of light.
According to Obsidian Entertainment, the developer behind the Kickstarter smash success Project Eternity, publishers approached the developer prior to the Kickstarter asking them to do crowd-fund on their behalf.
The studio splintered in 1998, and was shutdown in 2003 by its parent company, Interplay, though by this time most of its remaining members had moved on to found Obsidian Entertainment.
Then Kickstarter came along and a door opened this was FINALLY our chance to sidestep the publisher model and get financing directly from the people who want to play an Obsidian RPG.
FORBES: Obsidian Launches Original RPG 'Project Eternity' On Kickstarter
Indeed, the 23, 000 or so backers who have helped fund this project so far make the fact that Obsidian had no other way to fund this game more than a little puzzling.
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The smaller eggs offer a choice of materials, techniques and styles such as carved stones and minerals, as varied as rock crystal, chrysoprase, snowflake obsidian, lavender jade, jadeite, pink opal, rutilated quartz, jasper and turquoise.
Where a huge, neon Asahi beer sign was once a beacon, there now looms what can only be described as an objet, a kind of golden beet resting on a black obsidian-like pedestal (which doubles as a restaurant).
Obviously Project Eternity has shown us that a company can successfully drive their way to Kickstarter success without much to show, but Obsidian comes at this from a unique perch, with many beloved titles under their belt and a core fan-base.
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Volcanic obsidian forms the island's spectacular cliffs and grottos, and since access to fresh water has always been of prime concern, the indigenous houses, or dammusi, were brilliantly conceived back in the 10th century with domed roofs designed to channel rainwater into adjoining cisterns.
Nearly funded in a day, and almost certainly funded by the end of the weekend, this could be the real first step for studios like Obsidian to do away with publishers altogether, and make games they want to make and that fans are obviously more than willing to support.
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