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Post by slave2gaming on Aug 27, 2017 0:43:01 GMT
Dont know if any of you are interested, but another game also announced that it was closing its doors yesterday, Tor Games.
These guys created the skirmish game called 'Relics'
A mate and I bought into this before I started S2G and loved it. Very unique figures.
I guess add it to the list of games that I've bought and have died:
Clan War
Void
Vor
Crucible
Warzone 1, 2, 3
Halo; ground command
Epic
Warhammer Ancients & historicals
Helldorado
Anima Tactics
AE:WW2
Secrets of the 3rd Reich
Robotech
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Post by scottwashburn on Aug 27, 2017 10:57:27 GMT
Can't say that I'm familiar with Tor. I thought Tor was a book publisher  But gaming is a tough market, there's bound to be a lot of coming and going. |
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Post by slave2gaming on Aug 27, 2017 12:24:02 GMT
Can't say that I'm familiar with Tor. I thought Tor was a book publisher But gaming is a tough market, there's bound to be a lot of coming and going. These are the minis:    |
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Post by slave2gaming on Aug 27, 2017 12:24:18 GMT
well some of them.
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Post by hardlec on Aug 27, 2017 13:12:56 GMT
I started gaming in 1969 and began my painting career in 1974. Almost all of the game companies I have known have gone, many have come and gone.
Paper models were big in the 1930s and 1940s being inexpensive and paper was available during the war. Injection molded plastic took over in the 1950s and is still popular today. You could get a kit that was affordable, but only if you wanted something a million other people wanted. Resin and metal were for small runs.
The home computer has changed a lot. First came a resurgence of paper models. They could be designed at home and sold from home as PDF files. Customers printed their own. The 3D printer has changed the game landscape again. There are already companies that sell files for people to print their own models.
If the 3D printer improves and its cost goes down the way computers and home printers ( and lots of other things) have, the next stage in gaming may be going to a FLGS and getting one off copies.
Keep those old figs.
Game designers sell creativity, imagination and art, not chunks of lead. In a couple of decades the art can be revived in a new media.
(Sweat lubricates the creative process.)
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Post by madmorgan on Sept 22, 2017 8:59:26 GMT
Very well put hardlec! I'm always sad to see game companies close - especially hit by the Spartan closing recently. I really like those Orcnar figures btw. I would of liked to design a D&D or Frostgrave demon around them. 'Swirling Imp Demon' kinda a thing.
Don't forget Chronopia - the fantasy side of the Warzone series. I've got a lot of their miniatures painted up by friends of mine who used to play that as well as D&D (with me as GM) and they look great. A large number of them are now part of my Frostgrave series - for example, the Chronomaster and his henchmen are perfect figures for that game. My only disappointment besides the game going away, is that I never got one of the Dwarf assassins - he looked really cool! I still have the old catalogs and rulebooks for both games. My fevered dreams include someone picking up the license and doing them in 15mm. I did say fevered.
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Post by riftsinger on Sept 22, 2017 12:37:41 GMT
'Relics' has been picked up by another company i think , read it somewhere
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Post by bilko991 on Sept 23, 2017 13:42:16 GMT
I'm not familiar with Tor or those minis but they look really good. It's sad they've gone under. Some of my favourite games are on the dead games list.
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