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[Briggsy16]

Right basically I bought a game about a year ago and forgot the name.

You started in a worms style landscape and had to build a complex whilst the other team also started building. You're a brain in a metallic space suit and produce other soldiers and stuff. Everything was fully destructible and left pixels all over the place when stuff exploded.

Anyone know what I'm talking about? Wanna see how the development is coming along as it was nowhere near a finished game when I last played it

[kulik]

"Cortex command" aka. "the most wasted game idea" its pretty much dead.

[Briggsy16]

That's it!

That's a shame to hear, seemed quite a promising idea

[MasterFancyPants]

It's good to know Data (I think that's who made it) is still letting people buy it, and promising to finish it, even though there hasn't been any real progress in over a year... That's kind of immoral business if you ask me. At least there are mods.   

[Carrion]

It's not dead.  Data is promising a release in early December.

http://forums.datarealms.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19867

[Evilgrim]

Yeah, Cortex Command's not dead.
It's just a bit slow..

Okay, really slow.

[kulik]

You know, after death, the body still grows hair and nails for some time...so we may get a update but i doub CC will ever make it to a complete game. 

[MasterFancyPants]

It's not dead.  Data is promising a release in early December.

http://forums.datarealms.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19867

I still think that Data doesn't care for the game anymore.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 you an expect to see a first revision of the metagame, but probably without much of an AI
so it should be somewhat playable against other people on the same machine
hotseat
also, a reworked scenario/skirmish mode
the metagame mode is called 'campaign' and the scenarios are called 'skirmish'

That much progress made in two years(that's how long it will have been in December, I think)? What I get from this is: A campaign (he played with the map editor, maybe a little extra programing) and Impromptu mulitplayer... Oh, boy!

I'm not a game programmer by any means so maybe I don't have room to talk, but I'm comparing his progress to Toady's (who isn't even obligated by people buying his game) and it's not looking good.

Or perhaps I'm just feeling butt-hurt about him not informing the community as much as I think he should about the progress he has made.

[Carrion]

It's not dead.  Data is promising a release in early December.

http://forums.datarealms.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19867

I still think that Data doesn't care for the game anymore.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 you an expect to see a first revision of the metagame, but probably without much of an AI
so it should be somewhat playable against other people on the same machine
hotseat
also, a reworked scenario/skirmish mode
the metagame mode is called 'campaign' and the scenarios are called 'skirmish'

That much progress made in two years(that's how long it will have been in December, I think)? What I get from this is: A campaign (he played with the map editor, maybe a little extra programing) and Impromptu mulitplayer... Oh, boy!

I'm not a game programmer by any means so maybe I don't have room to talk, but I'm comparing his progress to Toady's (who isn't even obligated by people buying his game) and it's not looking good.

Or perhaps I'm just feeling butt-hurt about him not informing the community as much as I think he should about the progress he has made.

Yes, I understand that and I agree to an extent.  From what I know, Data Realms is also working on another game alongside CC but upon revealing this, Data made sure to say that he will be devoting all of his time to CC.  See: http://devlog.datarealms.com/cortex-command/announcing-the-cave-vehicle-engine/.  It's vague and uncertain for sure, but it's his word.

I don't think that you can really compare Data and Toady considering the massive differences in their respective projects.  That's all I am able to say about that because I, also, am not a programmer.  However, I will agree that Toady seems more dedicated, or at least that Data is not as upfront about his progress (whichever it may be).

I sympathize completely because it seems like so long to wait considering all of the money Data Realms has received (from sales and the IGF) but I also think that we are a little spoiled by montly DF releases.