Blood Bowl games on the way
Part of my life as a computer gamer involved running a site dedicated to the game Chaos League for a year or two, chaosleague|players (still running but not updated). Part of my much younger life was involved playing tabletop games such as Warhammer 40,000 and Blood Bowl. The two have just combined.
The reason chaosleague|players died off was that the UK publisher went but and so support for the game disappeared. The developers also got sued by Games Workshop, who felt that Chaos League ripped ideas from Blood Bowl. They’ve now made friends, with the Chaos League property going to Games Workshop and a licence to develop a series of three Blood Bowl games heading in the other direction.
It’s nice to see them come to such a good agreement and aside from the iffy PR of GW suing Cyanide, it could work out very well for them both. Chaos League had massive potential and Cyanide is a great development studio, but the publisher backing wasn’t there to allow them to evrything they wanted. Chaos League was also, in truth, the closest thing Blood Bowl fans had to an official Blood Bowl game (and a very good game it was too), so there was a ready (though under-exploited) market. The market bit was presumably what GW worried about and why they started legal proceedings. Now Games Workshop has a great developer working on Blood Bowl computer games with a good base of experience in the genre to start from, while Cyanide has official GW backing and should get more publisher support as a result.
I have to admit I’m enthused by this and I’ll be trying to get back in touch with Cyanide, who I had a good relationship with, to see if they can discuss any of their plans for the first game. I had been writing a full online league system for Chaos League’s expansion pack just before Digital Jesters died, so it never came to fruition and I’d like the chance to do it again (in Rails this time I think!) for a game that’s gonna have enough fan and publisher support to use it.
June 28th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
hi you seem to be just the man i need to speak too i have just bought sudden death after finding out about if from the chaos league players site, im having trouble figuring out where to put custom skins for my players as i have made some of my own and downloaded many from your site, as there is njo support for the game any more i have no idea who to ask and hope you may be able to help i used to be a avid player of chaos leauge untill the support was removed in the uk, and new skins started to deplete, please if you can could you explain where i need to put the skins to acess them in game, and where i can find any more chaos leauge sites that are still up and running
thank you for your time
carl
ps i may have cocked up and posted this in one of the other subjects by accident.
June 28th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
Hi Carl, custom skins go in the CustomTextures folder in the main Chaos League directory. Sudden Death doesn’t create i by default, so just create a new folder in \Chaos-League-SD called CustomTextures and put the files in there (so you’d have \Chaos-League-SD\CustomTextures).
When you add a player to your team in game, there’ll be a little shirt icon at the far right that you can then click to choose which texture/skin to use.
June 29th, 2006 at 12:45 am
thanks for your help on that, do you know of any sites that are still hosting new skins??? other that chaosleaugeplayers as i have all the skins from there
thanks again for your time
June 29th, 2006 at 1:03 am
ps i want to make some skins of my own i have paint shop pro 9 and need a file or something to open and edit the dds files do you know what file this is and where i could get it if you do, i seem to remeber chaosleagueplayers had the application or file some time ago when i first started playing, but i have since lost the file. once again thank you i really do appreciate the help
June 29th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Check out DeltaR’s site at http://deltar.perso.cegetel.net/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=553 for more skins.
You need the DDS utilities from NVIDIA - everything you need should be on this page: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tools.html
June 29th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
ok ive got the stuff from nvidia but the guide isnt very good what do i need to do to open the files in paint shop pro, i really am a novice here and dont know if what i downloaded is even relevant?? thanks
June 29th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
Looks like this might explain things: http://download.nvidia.com/developer/NVTextureSuite/Paint_Shop_Pro_Steps.pdf
Sorry, I don’t use Paintshop Pro so can’t give any personal advice.
June 29th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
ok i followed the link and read the guide, it said to download the adobe photoshop plugin and “these required DLLs” but i cant find these dlls any where, i downloaded the plugins but need the dlls it seems to open them, once again any help is appreciated,
June 30th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
A Google search showed up this page listing the DLLs you need, with a link to: http://www.dii.unisi.it/~gmariottini/Research/MobilitaOculare/download/ASTIDET/library%20(dll)/