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Veldor -> RE: Release Date ? (1/1/2005 7:39:48 AM)
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ORIGINAL: pasternakski
You couldn't even reproduce as simple a game as Up Front on the computer.
I'd have to say this is the most uninformed and mean spirited statement I've seen yet in this thread. Clearly you have not read the information available on said topic.
1. I wanted to truly leverage what computers could do and that meant altering aspects of the system. As one example to support modern day combat as well. This does not make sense to do with only electronic rights as then MMP and I are both taking the game in different directions and which one is going to be considered official? Not mine. I couldn't work with MMP because no one at MMP knows what the hell is going on with the title because they are letting someone else do it entirely and are too busy to care at present. I also think they were upset to find out they didn't have the rights they thought they did in the first place.
2. It would have cost me $$,$$$.$$ just to have the e-rights. Something we were funded to do but made no sense unless it were to be exploited (along the lines of what Paradox will do with Squad Leader no offense to them). Our intention from day one was to make a faithful product FOR the fans, not a game for OTHERS. I had most of the graphics redone or in the process of being redone. A few of the earlier style stuff that was completed is posted on my website as an example. It makes no sense to spend that kind of money for what amounts to rights to the trademarked name "Up Front" which is as crappy a name possible from an internet search perspective and many others anyway.
3. Too look at it a different way. I could call it something else, use all the different graphics, and still make it basically UP FRONT. But why? Why not just enhance it then? And then you get to why not just make a completely unique game in the first place that truly leverages the power of computers and doesn't bring undo baggage along (Like the silly way from a computer perspective that combat is resolved in Up Front).
4. No one can love UP FRONT more than I. I've been an official playtester for a game in the system. I even designed my own game based on the system (completed other than graphics work) that verly likely could have seen publication had AH not gone under first. I would never wish the title disservice. My collection has gone from 500+ games down to 1 and back up to various levels at times. That 1 game was always Up Front.
5. Everyone, including DAVID HEATH of Matrix, told me not to do it and to make a game (in the spirit of it) instead and put the licensing money into better graphics, better sound, anything. Which is what we are doing now with SNIPER AMBUSH (TM). Now we can also fund 3 games and not just one.
A win win.
Now I think a friendly apology is due...
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