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Author Topic: Subversion is dead, mostly.  (Read 3091 times)

hemmingjay

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Subversion is dead, mostly.
« on: October 17, 2011, 11:50:43 am »
The makers of Darwinia had been working on a heist game for the last 5 or 6 years and teasing us that it was getting ever nearer to launch only now to have crushed our spirits. It seems they lost their vision and only now realized that the core game dynamic was and would never be fun.

Source: http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/viewtopic.php?p=100735
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Re: Subversion is dead, mostly.
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2011, 11:51:15 am »
God.. damn...
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Re: Subversion is dead, mostly.
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2011, 11:53:22 am »
Well that ruined the mood.
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Re: Subversion is dead, mostly.
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2011, 11:54:15 am »
Yup, introversion mindraped me.
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« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2011, 11:59:03 am »
No honey, no, I'm just not up for it tonight. No, no it's not you, its just that, you see, these guys that made a game... honey... where are you going....honey??
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« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2011, 12:00:22 pm »
Thousands and thousands of man hours of great minds wasted.  :(
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« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2011, 12:06:40 pm »
They've been quiet on this subject for so long that this isn't a massive surprise.

Let's just hope this new game of their is decent.
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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2011, 12:20:06 pm »
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Subversion has not been cancelled, but I would certainly forget about it for now. We will be going back to that project eventually, but the first thing I plan to do is gut the thing from top to bottom of all the tech fluff that we forced in over the years.

Call it an extended delay, we'll still be getting our filthy gamer mitts on it in the future.

Can't wait to see what they're working on now, these guys have yet to fail to impress me.
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Re: Subversion is dead, mostly.
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2011, 12:23:19 pm »
Sounds reasonable to me: they feel the core gameplay just isn't there and it needs rethinking. Good to hear they're reusing some of the tech and code for the next project though, and since it's submitted to the IGF we should get to hear more soon.
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« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2011, 12:25:08 pm »
Aw, that is a shame.  Hopefully they come back to it at some point and figure out the fun factor.
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« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2011, 12:32:01 pm »
Well, better this than be like From Dust, I guess.
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« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2011, 01:02:06 pm »
Indeed sad news, i was really looking forward to Subversion, however, i trust that their new game would be as innovative and as fun.

I hope it has something to do with that Voxel engine a la minecraft with proper physics tech demo he showed not so lately.
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« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2011, 03:31:17 pm »
It's sad, but can anyone honestly say they didn't see it coming?  Subversion always had that vaporware stench to it.
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« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2011, 03:47:26 pm »
They made some great tech.  I can understand that they didn't really have a core game that they were building around and that without it, you need to focus elsewhere.

I hope we see some of that tech show up in future games.

There's all kinds of things you can do with a proc-gen city.  Street racing, anyone?
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« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2011, 07:01:13 pm »
I must say, it's quite disappointing to see a game that surely thousands of people looked forward to get put on the chopping block like this, but I deeply respect this developer for realizing the mistake, instead of pushing it through and ending up with a crappy over-hyped game.
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