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A Second Sunrise: Taiwan of 2020 Sent Back to 1911

What would be a good name for the rewrite?

  • Children of Heaven

    Votes: 3 30.0%

  • A Hundred Years' Difference

    Votes: 6 60.0%

  • Sun and Stars

    Votes: 1 10.0%

  • The Second Sunrise

    Votes: 3 30.0%

  • (Just call it Second Sunrise but make sure nobody refers to it as "SS")

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    10
  • Poll closed .
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It occurs to me that 2.5D shooter games could make a big comeback given that it would take Taiwan a little bit to rebuild the transistor and processor manufacturing industries. As such, they might have to make inferior models to make the superior models here and there…

Ultimately, there will always be Doom, is what I'm saying.
 
Vadrigos said:
It occurs to me that 2.5D shooter games could make a big comeback given that it would take Taiwan a little bit to rebuild the transistor and processor manufacturing industries. As such, they might have to make inferior models to make the superior models here and there…

Ultimately, there will always be Doom, is what I'm saying.
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Yeah, lower-requirement games will probably have an appeal as personal computer ownership becomes more-widespread. That and Free to Play games.

I remember going to the only internet cafe in my mother's hometown in the Philippines where my cousin and I would play Ragnarok Online because it was F2P.

That's actually where a lot of the inspiration for the sections on the spread of the internet came from. That, and growing up during the spread of PC ownership in America.
 
ChrisProvidence said:
Yeah, lower-requirement games will probably have an appeal as personal computer ownership becomes more-widespread. That and Free to Play games.

I remember going to the only internet cafe in my mother's hometown in the Philippines where my cousin and I would play Ragnarok Online because it was F2P.
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The payment infrastructure for subscription-based games would be a nightmare to set up in that kind of situation.
 
Happy New Year!

Sorry I don't really have anything to post right now. I had this whole big piece planned to celebrate the holidays and another thing like two paragraphs down, but then I caught some kind of virus, got really sick, and I'm out of action.

Feeling better by the day, though. Sore throat is my excuse to eat ice cream.

On the bright side, A Hundred Years' Difference is now out on Amazon in paperback and ebook versions! It'll also be out on Nook whenever Barnes and Noble gets around to processing my paperwork.

The bad news is I realized that the Epoch Times has a presence in Taiwan, which means it got sent back in time to 1911.
 
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PossiblyEnos said:
How much asset do they have there? They might have a bit of a problem bouncing back if they rely on cloud services and corporate servers hosted in the US and if they haven't been self-financing already.
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Good point. Minimal assets and a lack of a PRC mean Taipei isn't motivated to bail them out.

I take it back. The bad news is that I'm bedridden with a throat infection.
 
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