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What's Going on with The Wagadu Chronicles? Here's the Latest Update on Development | MMORPG.com

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edited June 2021 in News & Features Discussion

imageWhat's Going on with The Wagadu Chronicles? Here's the Latest Update on Development | MMORPG.com

The Wagadu Chronicles successfully funded their Kickstarter campaign with 163% over their initial funding goal of €100K. Since then, Twindrums has been busy putting their Afro-fantasy game together, and recently shared several tweets depicting some changes and progress that has been made up to this point.

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  • Randomuser2020876Randomuser2020876 Member UncommonPosts: 81
    Naked fat chicks sell, amirite?
    Slapshot1188KyleranUngoodScotxpsynclordsmokSandmanjwashiru_1978Agent_Joseph
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,063
    edited June 2021
    Naked fat chicks sell, amirite?
    I believe the proper term is thicc (with about 500 c's).
    UngoodlordsmokRandomuser2020876
  • ScorchienScorchien Member LegendaryPosts: 8,914
    DOA
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  • WizardryWizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332
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  • UtinniUtinni Member EpicPosts: 2,209
    Waiting for Amazon to buy this game to add to their collection of IPs nobody ever asked for
    ZenJellyChampieUngoodlordsmokRandomuser2020876
  • sabrefoxxsabrefoxx Member UncommonPosts: 248
    I can't wait to play this game! I'm excited and looking forward to seeing what the team will produce.
    maskedweaselUngood[Deleted User]Randomuser2020876ZenJelly
  • najita21najita21 Member UncommonPosts: 2
    This game is doing something that is very important. African culture and natural body types have been highly marginalized in video games. Everyone who plays video games should have options that relate to their heritage and identity.

    This game may be a flop like so many others, but the intent is in the right place and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
    meerclarIselinUngoodmaskedweaselTillerGdemamiashiru_1978Greatness[Deleted User]Sarlaand 6 others.
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,070
    najita21 said:
    This game is doing something that is very important. African culture and natural body types have been highly marginalized in video games. Everyone who plays video games should have options that relate to their heritage and identity.

    This game may be a flop like so many others, but the intent is in the right place and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
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  • ashiru_1978ashiru_1978 Member RarePosts: 818

    najita21 said:

    This game is doing something that is very important. African culture and natural body types have been highly marginalized in video games. Everyone who plays video games should have options that relate to their heritage and identity.



    This game may be a flop like so many others, but the intent is in the right place and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.



    It's good to have all options for body types available. If I want to make a normal looking fit character, I should be able to, if I want to make a fat blob that can barely move around, I should be able to as well. It would be even better if body type affected stats such as speed, reflexes, stamina, endurance and others. If you're a normal fit type, you are like a main DPS, if you're a fat blob you're the meat shield.
    ScotGdemami[Deleted User]ZenJellyqoma
  • sanibak3asanibak3a Member UncommonPosts: 10
    edited June 2021
    This isn't a traditional MMO from what I've read and understood with anything resembling standard PVE or PVP gameplay. Maybe I am mistaken or that is something they intend to add. It reads like it's basically just a GUI with gameplay elements for roleplaying like traditional tabletop D&D game with African lore. Perhaps I fail to understand their website info, and it's more than a shell of a game to be fleshed out by your RP?

    I guess it is like the ultimate sandbox in that the game really is whatever you decide to make of it. For people who like structure and gameplay mechanics, it doesn't look like this is a normal RPG where you'll actually sit down and play to grind some mobs or do a dungeon with boss mechanics etc. Very niche, and I don't see myself playing it, but I'm glad they're able to fund and make this. Much better use of money than some unrealistic scam/vaporware you see on kickstarter.
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  • MightyUncleanMightyUnclean Member EpicPosts: 3,531
    90% of the game's budget is actually being spent on the "flapjack tiddy" physics code.
    [Deleted User]UngoodlordsmokSarlaRandomuser2020876Champiekikoodutroa8
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,459
    edited June 2021

    najita21 said:

    This game is doing something that is very important. African culture and natural body types have been highly marginalized in video games. Everyone who plays video games should have options that relate to their heritage and identity.



    This game may be a flop like so many others, but the intent is in the right place and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.



    It's good to have all options for body types available. If I want to make a normal looking fit character, I should be able to, if I want to make a fat blob that can barely move around, I should be able to as well. It would be even better if body type affected stats such as speed, reflexes, stamina, endurance and others. If you're a normal fit type, you are like a main DPS, if you're a fat blob you're the meat shield.
    Nearly all games that have a toon creator can make you an overweight black guy if that's what you want to be. So are we not already there? The artwork makes it look like the toons will be somewhat more "African" than we commonly see but it is the graphics detail of what what they will look like in game that counts.
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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,063
    The problem with "natural body types" in games is that they are not natural for the lifestyle portrayed in video games. You think you aren't going to lose weight while running hundreds of ingame miles and swinging a sword every day?

    I'm all for choice, and the choice is a good thing, but it's not realistic for the narrative of most games.
    ScotGdemamiZenJelly
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,459
    Aeander said:
    The problem with "natural body types" in games is that they are not natural for the lifestyle portrayed in video games. You think you aren't going to lose weight while running hundreds of ingame miles and swinging a sword every day?

    I'm all for choice, and the choice is a good thing, but it's not realistic for the narrative of most games.
    I can remember when Rey started in the new SW trilogy there where complaints about how thin she was, well I suppose you have to have a complaint of the week don't you? What made me laugh was when a poster pointed out that she was a scavenger living day to day eating rats(?), did posters expect her to be curvy? That did make me laugh. :) 
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,063
    Scot said:
    Aeander said:
    The problem with "natural body types" in games is that they are not natural for the lifestyle portrayed in video games. You think you aren't going to lose weight while running hundreds of ingame miles and swinging a sword every day?

    I'm all for choice, and the choice is a good thing, but it's not realistic for the narrative of most games.
    I can remember when Rey started in the new SW trilogy there where complaints about how thin she was, well I suppose you have to have a complaint of the week don't you? What made me laugh was when a poster pointed out that she was a scavenger living day to day eating rats(?), did posters expect her to be curvy? That did make me laugh. :) 
    Well, you're always going to get complaints from someone. Humanity isn't a hivemind, and the people complaining about X aren't the same people complaining about Y.

    My problem with Rey isn't that she is thin. My problem with Rey is that she is instantly better at everything than everyone else, and she has no character flaws to make that veritable godhood interesting. Superman only works when they put him in moral greys, if not outright face-heel-turns.
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,459
    Aeander said:
    Scot said:
    Aeander said:
    The problem with "natural body types" in games is that they are not natural for the lifestyle portrayed in video games. You think you aren't going to lose weight while running hundreds of ingame miles and swinging a sword every day?

    I'm all for choice, and the choice is a good thing, but it's not realistic for the narrative of most games.
    I can remember when Rey started in the new SW trilogy there where complaints about how thin she was, well I suppose you have to have a complaint of the week don't you? What made me laugh was when a poster pointed out that she was a scavenger living day to day eating rats(?), did posters expect her to be curvy? That did make me laugh. :) 
    Well, you're always going to get complaints from someone. Humanity isn't a hivemind, and the people complaining about X aren't the same people complaining about Y.

    My problem with Rey isn't that she is thin. My problem with Rey is that she is instantly better at everything than everyone else, and she has no character flaws to make that veritable godhood interesting. Superman only works when they put him in moral greys, if not outright face-heel-turns.
    I saw no issue there, only if they had all been like her would I have found it odd. More importantly when the film came out did you feel the need to complain about it? That's the real issue here.
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,063
    Scot said:
    Aeander said:
    Scot said:
    Aeander said:
    The problem with "natural body types" in games is that they are not natural for the lifestyle portrayed in video games. You think you aren't going to lose weight while running hundreds of ingame miles and swinging a sword every day?

    I'm all for choice, and the choice is a good thing, but it's not realistic for the narrative of most games.
    I can remember when Rey started in the new SW trilogy there where complaints about how thin she was, well I suppose you have to have a complaint of the week don't you? What made me laugh was when a poster pointed out that she was a scavenger living day to day eating rats(?), did posters expect her to be curvy? That did make me laugh. :) 
    Well, you're always going to get complaints from someone. Humanity isn't a hivemind, and the people complaining about X aren't the same people complaining about Y.

    My problem with Rey isn't that she is thin. My problem with Rey is that she is instantly better at everything than everyone else, and she has no character flaws to make that veritable godhood interesting. Superman only works when they put him in moral greys, if not outright face-heel-turns.
    I saw no issue there, only if they had all been like her would I have found it odd. More importantly when the film came out did you feel the need to complain about it? That's the real issue here.
    I'm not exactly outspoken on criticisms. You've got your angry monsters, and then you just have people like me who like and don't like things. I may or may not voice my opinion. I have never harassed someone over it.

    I'm more interested in staying in the lanes I do like, and it's pretty rare that something I like has an abrubt, extreme fall from grace (cough, Game of Thrones, cough).
    GdemamiKidRiskScot
  • MightyUncleanMightyUnclean Member EpicPosts: 3,531

    Aeander said:

    The problem with "natural body types" in games is that they are not natural for the lifestyle portrayed in video games. You think you aren't going to lose weight while running hundreds of ingame miles and swinging a sword every day?

    I'm all for choice, and the choice is a good thing, but it's not realistic for the narrative of most games.



    All true, but having a 350 pound Jedi in SWTOR running around and riding a little speeder bike and doing flips and shit was pretty entertaining. Was also great to see them squeezed into trooper and bounty hunter armor, but you could only make so many Boba Fatt jokes.
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  • CuddleheartCuddleheart Member UncommonPosts: 391
    edited June 2021
    So, ummmmm...I was and still am ready to give this a fair shake, but I'm starting to get a bad feeling about this.

    Those models and animation in the video are looking a little sketch compared to what we were shown during the Kickstarter. I'm starting to catch a whiff a tax write off and/or an attempt to garner good will from Riot.

    The 2D sprite-based MMO engine I made twenty years ago(the one that I made in VB6/Visual C and could never fix the memory leak) in my spare time had a day/night cycle.
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,507
    najita21 said:
    This game is doing something that is very important. African culture and natural body types have been highly marginalized in video games. Everyone who plays video games should have options that relate to their heritage and identity.

    This game may be a flop like so many others, but the intent is in the right place and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
    I've been playing Kerbal Space Program and I don't see any characters that relate to my culture or body type.  All of the characters in the game have green skin and heads that are larger than the rest of their bodies.  That doesn't look like me at all, and there aren't any options that do.  Should I complain to the developers about this?

    It's not that I'm specifically against an African-themed game.  But it's also acceptable for fictional things to be very different from real life in a whole lot of ways.
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  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,507
    Aeander said:
    The problem with "natural body types" in games is that they are not natural for the lifestyle portrayed in video games. You think you aren't going to lose weight while running hundreds of ingame miles and swinging a sword every day?

    I'm all for choice, and the choice is a good thing, but it's not realistic for the narrative of most games.
    Have you ever seen the athletes who work out like crazy in real life?  They're not super skinny after losing a ton of weight.  They look kind of like this:


    UngoodGdemamiScot
  • SarlaSarla Member RarePosts: 413

    Zenislav said:

    Having body type that will give you heart attack at age of 35 after 5 minutes of running is now normal?



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  • maskedweaselmaskedweasel Member LegendaryPosts: 12,196
    Sarla said:

    Zenislav said:

    Having body type that will give you heart attack at age of 35 after 5 minutes of running is now normal?



    Alive and well in the USA
    I mean, size doesn't always necessarily point to cardiovascular health. I used to play basketball with some pretty round fellas that could play for a long time. Some people are just bigger.
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  • UngoodUngood Member LegendaryPosts: 7,534
    I don't know, I mean, I look at these models, and these women have what is often called a "Goddess" or "Fertility" figure.



    So I am not getting what all the fuss is about. They look normal and natural to me, which is a nice twist on things.

    I mean, when I looked at the MMO, it seemed that a large part of this game was also to sell the books/novels about the game world.

    Which I personally think is a somewhat brilliant move, and something that Luciena should have thought to do, before you know, dumping that lore and all that drama. 
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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,063
    Quizzical said:
    Aeander said:
    The problem with "natural body types" in games is that they are not natural for the lifestyle portrayed in video games. You think you aren't going to lose weight while running hundreds of ingame miles and swinging a sword every day?

    I'm all for choice, and the choice is a good thing, but it's not realistic for the narrative of most games.
    Have you ever seen the athletes who work out like crazy in real life?  They're not super skinny after losing a ton of weight.  They look kind of like this:


    Cool. But that's muscle. It's not fat.
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