The Competition & Teaser Thread

[Strela]

The demand for this series is now. Ten to fifteen years from years from now, demand could easily be something totally different, due to the quickly changing advances in technology or the possibly the of the creation of brand new JTS series.

I feel that the quicker that JTS can dive into the different theaters of WWII (Eastern, Western, Mediterranean & Middle East, and Pacific), the more successful and popular this series will be, because it will be drawing on the different interests of your target market. I don't see this happening if multiple titles are required to cover just one battle.

Guys,

Your exuberance is evident!

Firstly let us get the first title out the door before demanding the next. To give you an insight we have essentially 1.5 teams working on both Panzer Campaigns & Panzer Battles currently. We may be able to activate another team that has been on sabbatical to date, but no guarantees.

That said, we are getting much more experienced at building games (this is my third) and we are building things that are modular and repeatable. For example the graphics you are seeing have probably taken up half the project time to date as we went through four (!!!) iterations before we settled on a look that was more contemporary. Most of that will be reusable for future games that are either East Front or include Germans in Italy/France. Even building new graphics is much quicker as the techniques have been learned through a lot of trial and error.

Same thing with the OB's. We have already started to build up a library of OB's that can then be selected, adjusted for the formation and included in game. Having these pre done as per the German KsTN's for example saves a mountain of time later.

The thing that takes time is the research needed before building a scenario. Once a candidate is determined then a lot checking needs to be done on the state of the forces, the actual historical outcome and whether its a playable situation. This is time that can't be circumvented.

Finally, you need to have a passion for this. Either the topic or the mechanics of publishing a work. This is a hard arduous 'job' and you have to love the project to finish it. This first Panzer Battles title was started on Nov 16 2012, just after Moscow '42 was released. It's due for release very, very soon. In that fifteen month period, I have been on a work sabbatical for ten months and put in very long days (every day) on the project. Trust me, my wife keeps reminding me!

To turn out more titles we need more teams that are ready to go the distance, otherwise the maximum a single team can turn out at the quality level we want is a title a year and that is probably pushing it. You want join or lead a team, speak up!

The good news is that we do have other titles in various stages of completion but that's dependent on everyone staying the course and working constantly - all while having day jobs.

None of us are getting rich from this (other than Tazaaron! )

David