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[Meta]

Thread necromancy FTW.

The main developer of Miner Wars has posted a postmortem on Gamasutra and he explained what went right or wrong during the development. But there's something else more interesting: he's announced a new game. Just let me quote the interesting bit:

What's next?

After we finished Miner Wars 2081, I got back to planning the next item on our agenda. I gave it a lot of thought, considered our strengths and weaknesses, and came to the conclusion that we are going to restart the whole space building and mining idea. But first, we need to build a strong core.

I don’t want to go into much detail about our new project, especially following my previous experiences with promises and such. All I can say right now is:

    We are focusing on hard science – every game mechanic must have a rational and valid explanation based on current scientific knowledge.  Well, some things are extrapolated, but believable.
    Every object in this game has real mass, volume, and physical properties. We try not to cheat the physics.
    Sandbox, no campaign.
    We will use this game to try to popularize science and space exploration.
    This game’s going to be awesome.

If you are curious about what exactly this new project is, and how it is related to Miner Wars 2081 and Miner Wars MMO, please sit tight for a couple of months.  We want to provide more information only after we get through the prototyping phase (there’s still a chance we will have to change our design due to technical constraints).

Yes, hype, hype, but well, hard science + space + sandbox? That could be sweet.

[miauw62]

People are going to be VERY careful with prepurchase and buy-in alpha, tough.

E: Dat postmortem
What went right?
"We finished it in only 18 months".

I don't think speed of development says anything about game quality, and if it does, not in a good way for sure.

[Mephisto]

Some of his answers show a complete disconnect between himself and the gaming community at large.

I likely will not be purchasing.

[hemmingjay]

Some of his answers show a complete disconnect between himself and the gaming community at large.

I likely will not be purchasing.

They are not just disconnected, they are delusional. Further, they are untrustworthy at best and criminal at worst. They promised a product which they abandoned without addressing the public. They continued to take pre-orders promising a sandbox elite-like game right until they released that piece of excrement. Further, they failed to deliver on any of their other promises and anyone who believes them moving forward is a genuine nitwit given the vast cornucopia of public information available on them.

[zombat]

I'm pretty sure it was in development for longer than 18 months.

[Mephisto]

I'm pretty sure it was in development for longer than 18 months.

Not between 2011 and 2012, it didn't.

I don't get why he thought that was a big feat. "I worked on this for two years. then people joined and it was finished a year and a half later."

[hemmingjay]

He might actually be a moron.

[Eduardo X]

They already released Miner Wars Arena to fund making Miner Wars 2081 which was released to fund the MMO version which will be released? Or are they abandoning everything to make Miner Wars 2081, which was never actually complete?

I just wish I could get my money back.

[BuriBuriZaemon]

It's a trap. Don't support any developers behaving in such way.