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is GG not telling us something?

by Dr. John Nobody · in General Discussion · 02/05/2003 (9:29 am) · 15 replies

hey all, I was just finishing up the last issue of game developer when I noticed something pretty cool, GG had an ad for the torque game engine on the top of page 61 (issue from february 2003) highlighting 3 games, Realm Wars, Marble Blast and... Metal Drift? This mystery game (from the 100x100 pixel picture) looks pretty cool and it looks as though it has beam weapons (something that was taken out of torque and the community has been unable so far to put back in). I just checked for both games and projects with this title and nothing came up. I'm wondering if this is GG's next game (now that they are finished with marble blast). Are they not telling us somethng?
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Torque Owner Keith Sink
#1
02/05/2003 (10:13 am)
Metal Drift was announced at the last conference that they hosted. We got to play it in Eugene at that conference. Fantastic game that they are currently looking for a publisher for. It's not really a secret, just hasn't had alot of marketing applied to it yet. I'm sure they will share some of what they learned while developing it as they have time to do so.

Torque Owner Tyler Frans
#2
02/05/2003 (10:23 am)
Metal Drift is being developed by Ozo Interactive here in Eugene, OR. All Ex-Dynamix folks. Far from a secret really, they had many interviews on gaming sites.

www.ozointeractive.com/

Torque Owner Dr. John Nobody
#3
02/05/2003 (11:40 am)
oh cool, ya I guess that I missed this one somehow. when it wasnt listed as a project I guess my imagination just kinda got carried away :)

Torque Owner Nicolas Quijano
#4
02/05/2003 (11:47 am)
Eric, Dog of Prey has beam weapons... :)

Torque 3D Owner Michael Cozzolino
Big Monk Games
#5
02/05/2003 (12:47 pm)
Pretty sweet. Nice to hear that some ex-dynamix employees are still in the biz.

Torque 3D Owner Frank Bignone
Darkhand Studio
#6
02/05/2003 (2:25 pm)
lol nicolas, it was secret ;)

Torque Owner Dr. John Nobody
#7
02/05/2003 (2:33 pm)
hehe, sorry Frank, the cats outa the bag, prepare to be bombarded by requests to release beams as a resource!

Torque Owner Dr. John Nobody
#8
02/05/2003 (2:35 pm)
oh wow, when I made that last post the layout of the site changed... now forum threads are higher up on the whats new thingy... I wonder why they changed it

Torque Owner Jeremy Tilton
#9
02/05/2003 (3:02 pm)
Yeah, I was confused for a few seconds too. I was like "wow, look at all these new posts in the last few minutes!"

Torque Owner Dr. John Nobody
#10
02/05/2003 (3:16 pm)
hehe, me too... good to know I wasnt the only one ;)

Torque 3D Owner Xavier "eXoDuS" Amado
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#11
02/05/2003 (3:45 pm)
Hehe.. me too :P
I have beams too btw... not finished but pretty much ;)

Torque 3D Owner Phil Carlisle
#12
02/05/2003 (5:10 pm)
Yep, another "me too" to the beam weapons. But mine still look crap for some weirdly reason.

Phil.

Torque 3D Owner Frank Bignone
Darkhand Studio
#13
02/05/2003 (11:25 pm)
I should give to cesar what owns to cesar ;) (is it correct in english ? french translation 'rendre

Torque Owner George McBay
#14
02/09/2003 (9:50 pm)
Close enough, in English the phrase is usually spoken as: "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's".

Torque 3D Owner Frank Bignone
Darkhand Studio
#15
02/10/2003 (4:27 am)
Thanks George for the info.