Digest Publishing Groups' A.I. product

[travelnjones]

Howdy

I am new here and regrefully wasnt a big Traveller Guy after trying out 2300 Ad. I was alway a bigger fan of Twilight 2000 and GDW's Dark Conspiracy products. Sorry to jump in on your forums for such a lame one off question, but can anyone tell me about the unpublished A.I. product

I can remember the ads in Challenge and always planned to buy the game and was about to order it, but figured i would get a discount at my FLGS so waited. Now A.I. has become a sort of gaming Holy Grail for me. It seems the publishers were DGP and Joe Fugate was the guy dreaming it up. Am I right in thinking that? I remember a big emphasis on Biotech and have started searching down books with related ideas. From I.C.E.'s Dark space to Torg's Space Gods. I have even grabbed Harry Harrisons' Eden novels.

I would love any info on the product. Game setting is paramount but even system ideas would be cool. I have heard Mr. Fugate sometimes posts here. If there is any way i could more directly talk to him about this it would be fantastic. I saw a 10 questions post would it be better to have added this question there?

Thanks everyone
jim

 

[Blue Ghost]

There's been some discussion in the past about DGP, and the ultimate fate of the material.

I don't recall A.I. ever being produced, but then again I got out of Traveller after "Flaming Eye" hit the market... mid to early 90s?

Someone else will have more insight.

 

[Droyne668]

A.I. was never produced. Too bad - from the ads, it looks like it would have been a fascinating game.

There's a conversation with Joe Fugate on this forum where he spoke about what had been planned for the A.I. game.

Best,
Will

 

[Vargas]

Around the time MegaTraveller Journal 4 was published, DGP offered to sell an early version of the game as an apparent means of getting it field tested (and generating some income I assume).

 

[travelnjones]

I have been trying to search the forums with no results i must be doing something wrong. Honestly I would happily pay for any material if Joe Fugate or anyone else has it.

Like i mentioned this has become sort of an obsession for me. Even working on a game world based on my vague memories of the challenger ad. Reworked as more of an odd fantasy with biotech game and worked into the HARP system.

Which reminds me; does Traveller have any information on biotechnology? I buy a lot of random source books on that subject for this game I am working on. Dark Conspiracy delved into this a bit.

Thanks for your help
jim

 

[jappel]

Jim,

The thread that Joe responded in can be found here: http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=11154&highlight=Fugate

 

[virushi]

Someone correct me if I am mistaken, but I seem to recall that the manuscript for A.I. was nearing completion when they lost it in a hard disk crash.

I think the DGP folks got out of the gaming business shortly afterward.

 

[Vargas]

Someone correct me if I am mistaken, but I seem to recall that the manuscript for A.I. was nearing completion when they lost it in a hard disk crash.

I think the DGP folks got out of the gaming business shortly afterward.

Yeah, that story sounds familiar.

 

[Starviking]

Someone correct me if I am mistaken, but I seem to recall that the manuscript for A.I. was nearing completion when they lost it in a hard disk crash.

I think the DGP folks got out of the gaming business shortly afterwards.

As an addendum I remember Roger Sanger, the owner of the rights to DGP material posted on the old TML looking for people to help him with AI. Whether it was a re-creation of it, or piecing it together from surviving materials I don't know.

Starviking

 

[aramis]

Little of both.

I was one of the volunteers.

 

[Starviking]

Little of both.

I was one of the volunteers.

Me too. I don't recall much happening at all.

Starviking

 

[aramis]

I got a few chunks of background materials in terse prose.