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What ever happened to the game?
I've been out of the loop for a very long time. What ever happened to the game after it's cancellation? I remember reading on this site about there being hope, and that the devs had started a company and were trying to aquire the rights to make the game. Was any headway made? Is it dead? Paper or plastic? Finally, if it is dead, are there any plans for other B5 games (besides the mods)?
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Welcome to Firstones though, and all hope is NOT lost for a b5 flight sim. check [url="http://mods.firstones.com"]http://mods.firstones.com[/url] for more info, and I STRONGLY suggest looking at IFH
( [url="http://mods.firstones.com/ifh/"]http://mods.firstones.com/ifh/[/url] )
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--Dennis Miller, Dennis Miller Live
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As for the game: Basically, the Devs ran out of options. Their last attempt to get funding after Sierra refused to sell and lost them their first lot of funding failed.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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[i]Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.[/i]
--Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a life time. But teach a man to BE a fish, and he can eat himself."
--Dennis Miller, Dennis Miller Live
[This message has been edited by Faylorn (edited 11-25-2001).]
[This message has been edited by Faylorn (edited 11-25-2001).]
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
[b]But there won't be a non-linear, dynamic B5 Universe with some of the other features that made ItF the stuff of dreams. However, I do agree - from what I can tell, IFH looks to be good. It would be possible to resurrect ItF if we had a good plan to do it. Perhaps, if most of us did the programming/modelling/what-have-you and original crew reviewed and refined it. The game would be produced while minimizing participation the original crew are too busy to give. Sound good?
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Sounds good - except that this wouldn't be legal. Personally I wish that I could just FTP the design documents to the Firstones server. My understanding is that I can't do this. Besides Sierra (if there is anyone left there who would even recognize the effort), WB would probably not be happy about such an effort.
On the other hand, if one were to collect everything that has been written about the game over the years (especially recently) at Firstones into one place - you'd have a pretty good guideline. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
Oh - and if you were to also take the narrative content of Officer's Journal as a story guide... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img] [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img] I don't know who is writing it - but it's pretty close, in terms of story missions. All that's missing is the specific interfaces that the player would be using, which are represented in the Officer's Journal by dialogue instead.
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[b]But there won't be a non-linear, dynamic B5 Universe with some of the other features that made ItF the stuff of dreams.
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Won't there?
*says nothing more and goes back to his sealed room...the one with heavy defences so that no one else can enter*
hehehe [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
Worf
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Galen: I dont, I have no surviving enemies...at all
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[quote]WORF:
Won't there?
*says nothing more and goes back to his sealed room...the one with heavy defences so that no one else can enter*
hehehe [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
Worf[/quote]
Hmmm...
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[i]Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.[/i]
--Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a life time. But teach a man to BE a fish, and he can eat himself."
--Dennis Miller, Dennis Miller Live
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Captain Gideon: I thought you said you dont hold a grudge?
Galen: I dont, I have no surviving enemies...at all
Ave Primo-Populi (Hail the Firstones)
No. I'm saying that as far as I know we can't give you anything from our design work, or from the artwork that was done by team artists, or from the CGI we got from WB, or sound/music files from Franke.
I don't know if it would be legally sticky for any of us to comment on whatever anyone else happens to put together from scratch. Seems like a gray legal quagmire to me and I'm not sure that any of the former developers would have the time or interest, even if possible. I think that all but me have been smart enough to be brave, put ITF behind them, move on…but I’m like a junkyard dog guarding his bone – mind you, I’m not saying that’s good. It’s a bit obsessive, if you ask me – even deranged – maybe twisted – probably quite sad, really. LOL.
On the other hand, over the years, an awful lot has been posted in various threads - not documents - just stuff written in threads here and there by Marc, Dan, myself, John,- especially recently. I don't know if any of that has been archived, but it were all put together in one place...
No, you’re not going to find the code, but enough about what we were doing so that some of you mad coders out there could figure out how to do the same thing. It’s the conceptualizing up front that made it special – after that, just hard work – not that there wasn’t also intermittent, conniving, blood-letting, hell-bent genius along the way – but you guys can do that.
Ohh did you hear that? One of the Devs admitted he is twisted!
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
About the music though, I've seen that floating around. If I recall, Space Dream Factory used ItF music in their IFH trailer. Is SDF and sites hosting it risking a legal encounter?
[quote]Randy:
I think that all but me have been smart enough to be brave, put ITF behind them, move on…but I’m like a junkyard dog guarding his bone – mind you, I’m not saying that’s good. It’s a bit obsessive, if you ask me – even deranged – maybe twisted – probably quite sad, really. LOL.[/quote]
The signature of a FirstOne - diehard loyalty to a game that was never finished. Welcome to the community. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
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[i]Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.[/i]
--Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a life time. But teach a man to BE a fish, and he can eat himself."
--Dennis Miller, Dennis Miller Live
[This message has been edited by Faylorn (edited 11-26-2001).]
[This message has been edited by Faylorn (edited 11-26-2001).]
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[b]whitestar90: [/b]"it would give the computer a heartattack just looking at it" -
[b]Sanfam: [/b]"And Drazi didn't like it one bit.-
[b]Mr.Bungle: [/b][i]"So that's where the forum went..."[/i]-
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[b][i]ahhh, the good old days of HTML.[/i][/b]
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[i]Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.[/i]
--Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a life time. But teach a man to BE a fish, and he can eat himself."
--Dennis Miller, Dennis Miller Live
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[url="http://www.mdstudios.f2s.com/index.html"]Material Defender Studios[/url]
[i]Fan Artwork[/i]
[i]3dsmax tutorials ONLINE! More to come soon![/i]
[b]PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN![/b]
That dasdardly villian!
-PMAN
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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"God's in his heaven. All's right with the world."
- PJH
[img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
- PJH
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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"God's in his heaven. All's right with the world."
[b]I've been out of the loop for a very long time. What ever happened to the game after it's cancellation? I remember reading on this site about there being hope, and that the devs had started a company and were trying to aquire the rights to make the game. Was any headway made? Is it dead? Paper or plastic? Finally, if it is dead, are there any plans for other B5 games (besides the mods)?[/b][/quote]
If you haven't already checked out the little history Biggles compiled, drop by [url="http://www.comedygamer.com"]www.comedygamer.com[/url] and go to the article archives, I wrote an article on how Sierra mucked the game up, called 'A Day in the Life of a Game Cancellation: Brought to you by Sierra Studios'.
Oh the memories are flooding back again....
Oh, and Spoo rules! [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
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[This message has been edited by Falcon1 (edited 11-29-2001).]