The more I think about it, the more I think having an open source device like this is really cool, and that it'll live far beyond the company that makes it, but putting that on the community is a tough sell
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And every cartridge is going to cost we don't even know how much - 80 Days, my literal GOTY, launched at ~ $5 ~ over a decade ago - It feels like this is a fantasy console for a universe in which Zork was still on top of the world
I'm being generous because I like to approach projects like that with this, but yeah, at best it seems... really weird. To me it smacks of someone who has delivered product solo enough times to want to branch out and not having someone else to tell them what is and isn't a good idea.
They've been as upfront as they have been with anything else in their FAQ about AI not being disallowed (it's labelled) but also like, the ESRB don't know shit about ZORK V - At least as far as that one goes, those labels on the packaging is a mockup gone one step too far
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Genuinely this feels like an engineer/programmer who has a TON of great ideas, but is also not an artist, bizdev, or lawyer, so this bluesky thinking (hah) is getting out of hand when it comes to communication, imagery, choice of platforms, etc
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I'm gonna get whatever backer tier includes two games
I'm gonna support the store and IF creators I love when it launches (s/o to Emily Short)
And I'm gonna install new software to the device when it needs it
I want it to work
But I also feel like it is working against itself
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