Thursday, March 01, 2007
Wahoo's / NinjaBee's Next Big Thing
Steve couldn't talk about it for his interview a few days ago, but now the cat's out of the bag. In addition to Saga and Band of Bugs, we've got a Nintendo Wii game in the pipeline, called "Space Station Tycoon". This is one of the "non-indie" projects that that indie / non-indie mix Steve talked about in his interview.
There's some information on it here at IGN and also here at GamaSutra.
The GamaSutra article makes an interesting point that I hadn't really considered: "The annoucement marks the first time a developer has moved a similar concept from Xbox Live Arcade to a retail product on another home console."
So - those of you who were at the last Utah Indie Night and might have wondered what a producer from Namco was doing here --- well, now you know. He was here for Space Station Tycoon. Though, after talking with him, he expressed how much he enjoyed hanging out with the indies that evening.
And no, I am not on that project, either. I'm on yet another project that has not been announced. Yes, the office here is REALLY busy. Incidentally, I didn't even know the official name of the game until after the IGN article came out. We always refer to the games by their code names here. A friend of mine messaged me with the query, "Space Station Tycoon, huh?" I thought, "Huh? What's that?"
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That's a pretty interesting comment from Gamasutra.
It's not really true, though. The deal for this project came from a long-ago conversation about the pros and cons of the PC version of Outpost Kaloki. All discussions about Space Station Tycoon since then have been along the lines of how to make a new original game with some similar appeal but new content and technology and gameplay, and the Live Arcade version of OKX sort of happened in the middle of all that on its own path.
Nobody ignored the Live Arcade release, of course, and we talked about it a lot, but Space Station Tycoon has been its own thing with its own direction for quite a while...
So, if the SST project came from anything, it came from Outpost Kaloki for PC. Even that's misleading, since SST is a whole new game in tons of ways.
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It's not really true, though. The deal for this project came from a long-ago conversation about the pros and cons of the PC version of Outpost Kaloki. All discussions about Space Station Tycoon since then have been along the lines of how to make a new original game with some similar appeal but new content and technology and gameplay, and the Live Arcade version of OKX sort of happened in the middle of all that on its own path.
Nobody ignored the Live Arcade release, of course, and we talked about it a lot, but Space Station Tycoon has been its own thing with its own direction for quite a while...
So, if the SST project came from anything, it came from Outpost Kaloki for PC. Even that's misleading, since SST is a whole new game in tons of ways.
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