Word on the street* is that Comcap has laid off the entire Raypoint Flam development team of one for failing to produce a single page text after 2+ months of development. We think this is great news, because we heard a rumor that Raypoint Flam "Scenario Planner" Fritz Fraundorf once bumped into someone and didn't say "Excuse me." He is obviously an asshole and deserves to be unemployed. As one industry insider, SuperSaiyanPiccogogetenks666, put it on the GameFAQs Grandia II forum:
We agree wholeheartedly.
* Okay, we actually just copied this story from Qu's Marsh Insider, which is totally retarded anyway because they actually charge money for it. I mean, who's going to pay for a website? That would be like to having to pay for cable TV or CDs or video games! How dare they attempt to turn a profit!
-- FatSchadenfreude
UPDATE: Fritz Fraundorf has formed a new company, MonolispSoft, whose first game will be a psuedo-prequel to Beath of Flams. Monolisp will disguise the game's legally-questionable connections to Beath by cleverly titling it "Raypiont Flam." Fraundorf will serve as Scenario Planner on the new game. Raypiont Flam will first appear at next week's E3, and Fraundorf is reportedly hard at work planning a scenario.
While we try to figure what a Scenario Planner does, here's a teaser poster that we illegally scanned and posted from Next-Generation magazine:
UPDATE #2: Scenario Planner Fritz Fraundorf has just informed us that the official name of the game is not "Raypiont Flam" but "FRITZ FRAUNDORF'S raypiont flam."
UPDATE #3: We still have no idea what a Scenario Planner does.
UPDATE #4: Reader Alan Smithee has alerted to us what has been termed the "Spend the Rest of Your Life Decoding Obscure Web Site Passwords to Solve a Murder Mystery That Has No Connection to the Movie Whatsoever Game." To play this exciting game, count the number of pixels in "Sentient Machine Therapist: Fritz Fraundorf" in the Raypiont Flam trailer, divide by 37, convert to hexadecimal, add 8, and enter that IP into your web browser to be taken to a fictitious research lab site where you can enter your phone number to receive a phone call 8 days later that will give you the password to get into the personal homepage of Dullard Ego. AWESOME!
UPDATE #5: We have no idea what a Sentient Machine Therapist does, either.
UPDATE #6: Inside sources (okay, we borrowed from Qu's Marsh Insider again) have informed us that Raypiont Flam will feature melting ice cubes.
UPDATE #7: Breaking news: Raypiont Flam Scenario Planner Fritz Fraundorf has reportedly finished planning a scenario. More details once we figure out what the hell this means.