IT Is revealed.....

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IT Is revealed.....

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Ladies, Gentlemand and Ungulates for the world, we are pleased to announch that the wait is over....

IT HAS ARRIVED

Those of you who subscribe to EDGE magazine will have already seen that YaK' gnu project - UNITY is featured on the front cover and extensively inside....

The full IRC Log is available to download at:
http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/announcement.txt

In the words of the man himself...
[12:10] <}Yak{> here we go


[12:10] <}Yak{> Right... first things first... I am sure that nobody will be surprised when I say that I hope you like GameCubes :)

[12:11] <}Yak{> Back in 1994, when I finished T2K, I had an idea for another game...
[12:11] <}Yak{> something which brought together the two main strands of my work over the years...
[12:11] <}Yak{> lightsynths and games...

[12:11] <}Yak{> a project I called "Unity".
[12:12] <}Yak{> At the time hardware was nowhere near good enough to implement that game...
[12:12] <}Yak{> so it sat on the back burner of my mind.

[12:12] <}Yak{> Now, hardware is good enough...
[12:12] <}Yak{> and a few months ago I went to visit a development house where we talked about the concept.
[12:13] <}Yak{> They were very keen on the idea, and agreed to back me with funding and resources to develop the concept.
[12:13] <}Yak{> I am very happy to announce that that dev house is one of the best and most respected dev houses in the world.

[12:14] <}Yak{> The game will be developed with the backing and collaboration of Lionhead Studios :)

[12:14] <}Yak{> The game itself will be an abstract shooter, but... much more than that.

[12:15] <}Yak{> It'll start out as, well, the kind of thing you might expect the bloke who made t2k and t3k to make if he had decent hardware :).

[12:15] <}Yak{> But it will develop into... something unique, something where the boundaries between playing a game and... performing an instrument of some kind... are blurred

[12:16] <}Yak{> I'm really pleased to have the backing and support of such a great bunch of guys... the Lionhead crew are a top lot and 110% behind me in this :)

[12:16] <}Yak{> Peter Molyneux Himself is most enthused :)

[12:17] <}Yak{> I think that, between us, we will be able to explore new frontiers of gaming pleasure and playability and come up with something truly groundbreaking :)

[12:18] <RiK> Peter Molyneaux has publically stated that Jeff was one of the reasons he got into the industry...

[12:18] <}Yak{> Anyway, I am now ready to take questions if anyone has any :)
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Something needs to go in the Blog...
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Ace :camel: I have no questions - just my sincerest heartfelt congratewelations.
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Yeeeesssss, the RED button was pushed.
And the Chat is near to Explode... :D
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Post by teamonkey »

So that was a reference to Lionhead after all! (Can't remember where I saw it though - can anyone help?)

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Errr - the link doesn't work...
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Dancing Rodents from here too!

Way to go Yak!

/me is very happy!

Hugs all round :)

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So is IT going to be like REZ ish ?
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Post by korruptor »

Congrats Yak. I think you're one developer that really does deserve this. And way to go Lionhead as well!
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Post by Mayhem »

Gamecube was a certainty after Wavebirds were used at the rave ;)

And like Teamonkey, had picked up on the Peter Molyneux comment... but you know what assuming does now! :lol:

Guess everyone except a few of us firewalled unfortunates are still on IRC :cry:

Anyhow, I'm spreading the word on the gaming forums I also hang out on...
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Post by Yak »

Clack wrote:So is IT going to be like REZ ish ?
Well, people are bound to make comparisons between Unity and Rez, but Unity is actually based on ideas I have had lying around in my head since 1994. Rez is an abstract shooter, true, but in a very self-consciously TRON style, and its Panzer Dragoon roots are very evident.

Unity will be... Unity ;).

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Congrats!

8O <= Tuur in the Zone

Can't wait...
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