mckmas8808
Legend
Ive just checked the Project Offset forums and apparantly there rumour is that SOE is the publisher
Mr. Boo can you link us to that post please?
Please?
Projet offset comming to Xbox 360
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Mr. Boo can you link us to that post please?
Please?
Doesn't sound very sensible. Especially when they've licensed UE3. Have they had a change of heart?
Though in this report, SOE talk of games for PC and next-gen consoles
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10163
What are the chances of some games being cross-platform, especially of the subscription based MMO variety? If you think of SOE as similar to Sony BMG music, they're a content company. Their job is primarily to make money creating games, in contrast to the likes of SCEWW which also has a job to promote the console. Just as Sony BMG artists are available on rival platforms to CONNECT, it's not implausible for a software developer to want to reach a larger market. If so, the lack of advertisement for PS3 devs would be because SOE would provide them, whereas they don't have their own XB360 developers. Now are SOE's hands tied from on high regards the platforms they're allowed to support, or are they allowed freedom in their own development policy?
Actually I thought that Ninja Theory guys are using Havok physics engine, so they are using some kind of middleware.
I think mckmass was thinking full engines though, hence the deliberate use of the word 'engine'. Middleware in the form of libraries is bound to feature in every game. You can't write from the ground up every single bit of code!
Ive just checked the Project Offset forums and apparantly there rumour is that SOE is the publisher
That was based on a blog entry about buying a game studio. But that might be that card game developers that will be their new Denver Studio.
Sure thing, but having read a little more into the thread the more i reliase i was wrong. I supose thats what happens when you only skim though the first page
Apologies to all..http://forums.projectoffset.com/viewtopic.php?t=2013
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Sure thing, but having read a little more into the thread the more i reliase i was wrong. I supose thats what happens when you only skim though the first page
http://forums.projectoffset.com/viewtopic.php?t=2013
thanks for the correction Mrboo
so.... X360 version it is with MS as the possible "Major" publisher.
mckmas8808
Legend
What does this mean?
It means danger boy.. danger and terror.
Why would that be odd? MS would only be the publisher, not the developer. They would still have to find their own programmers.
Well, not anymore, no they don't. They got out of that phase after a couple years of sagging 1st and 2nd party quality. Now they do little of that, and all of it is targetted at XBLA (where it makes more sense anyway).
MS does throw lots of people at projects from the publishing side, but they don't throw enough to enable a 10 person team make an AAA game.
From the PO website, they spent 2 years creating indie game Savage
http://savage2.s2games.com/media.php?t=m
My first look of this game, and you can see PO is a progression of what they were doing there. Savage is kinda Morrowindy in look. Or perhaps more Untold Legends, but better quality than what the PS3 looks set to get! The shadowing looks very effective in the grass.
