I wanted to give you the great news. Joel Bylos will be with us Friday for an Interview @ Alice and Smith! We will tackle the subject of TBW IP and TSW / TBW relation, but also announce other interesting news. Since it will be pre-recorded due to time-zone, I'll invite you to post in the thread any question you would like me to ask (or answer)! We will keep this private to our current forums for now as we wish to use it as a PR stunt when the Interviews goes out.
I would make him some questions, but his answers rarely correspond to reality, so I see no reason to ask him anything. TSW is abandoned.
What are the chances we'll see him as a fellow agent in a mission? We could always use more agents around.
Very nice, and very intriguing! While I don't have that many questions personally, I'll try and post a few, just in case you should run out of things to talk about - nothing worse than awkward silence. (the questions are, of course, directed at Joel) How would you want to see the relation between TSW and TBW develop, if at all? If so, what do you see as the primary challenge of creating such a bridge between TBW and TSW? Would you rather see the factions of TSW put into TBW as-is, or as a "shadow" of their TSW counterparts? If a bridge between the two IPs is made, how would this be expressed in TSW? One might imagine TBW agents came across an agent of one of the TSW factions in TBW, but how do you imagine TSW players might come across TBW agents? Considering there is quite a bit of overlap between the two games, not only in terms of lore, but also in terms of pull (Investigation Missions/ARG puzzles), have you contemplated the financial benefits of supporting TBW during its infancy? In addition, I am personally somewhat worried that over-exposing the link between TBW and TSW, might hinder the development of TBW as an independent (not disconnected) world. As such, if you have pondered whether to support TBW during this early stage - in exchange for the mutual benefit such interaction might carry for both games later on - how would you put to ease these concerns that any link between TSW and TBW at this stage might possibly push TBW from becoming something independent, back into being a sub-section for TSW? (e.g. co-operating with TBW, without players coming from TSW getting miffed that "This doesn't have anything to do with TSW!") Other than financial support - either direct or indirectly via featuring it somewhere visible for the TSW community - how would you like to support TBW (if you do)? For example such as writing a mission, dropping hints towards TBW in TSW without directly linking the two (again, dependent on the level of interaction you and A&S decide upon), and so on. What excites you, personally, the most about TBW? Think that's it for now - they're a bit long winded, so that should hopefully make up for the relatively few questions. Not entirely sure if they're fitting for the interview, but, as mentioned, "just in case" you need something to ask.
