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Warren Spector At New Junction
by Maarten Goldstein, Mar 08, 2005 5:29pm PSTGameSpot is reporting that Warren Spector has resurfaced, as the veteran designer is now at Junction Point Studios; a new Austin, TX based company. All Spector would say about the company's first project is that it's a "fantasy" title. However, digging a little, GameSpot found this about the name "Junction Point" which may or may not be related
A clue to Junction Point's current project may lie in Spector's past. One of his coworkers while working at TSR was one Allen Varney, who cowrote a module for the cult sci-fi role-playing game Paranoia with Spector. According to Varney's online resume, he also handled "principal design" on a game called "Junction Point" while at Looking Glass Studios (then Looking Glass Technologies) at the same time as Spector. Varney describes the game as "[a] massively multiplayer fantasy role-playing game, changed in midstream to a single-player science-fiction role-playing game," which was canceled in 1997.
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Do what you're good at doing. If that is making complex RPGs that may not have the widest appeal but are widely considered classics of the genre (and are successful enough to pay your bills) perhaps that should be enough to be happy with. More sales != better games.
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Makes me almost nostalgic for working at Kinesoft next to the K-EYE TV studio.
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Of all the PnP RPGs I played, Paranoia always had a special place in my heart.
I cant believe I didnt know WS worked on Paranoia Module... Now I need to find out which one, and see if it can be found on Ebay or somewhere...
Ha ha.. all the worst that can happen to a project in a single sentence.
This is exactly that kind of sentence that finally made me quit the industry without much regrets..