NeoStrayCat wrote:
I see! However, I'm not sure if I said this before in the forum here, or otherwise someone else did, but I wonder, has SkyRavens been shelved? It was supposed to come out on XBLIG but never did. I wonder if anything leftover of that title exists in some form? This has been bugging me since after the XBLIG was discontinued.
It's not been shelved. Thanks for your PM btw, I guess I should give people a bit of an update here.
So, after Chronoblast - I went in to full time work for a company where I worked on a big title and an unreleased title for about 5 years. I, along with a few others, were let go and replaced with juniors who are cheaper. During this time there was an intention to do Chronoburst and Skyravens but those fell between the cracks because I simply had to focus on putting the day job first. Since then, XBLIG closed and that became a dead end - so production halted on things. None of these projects are dead, they will be completed and we have plans to do so.
I've spent the last 3 years or so equipping and training Kitz and he's gone from creating tiny not-so-good sprites to being able to get his head around 3D modelling. So we're at a point now where the two of us can actually start pumping things out. It's just taken us a while to get there. Sometimes you just need someone on the same wavelength and it's always been a bit of a toss up. Finding someone who is a good artist doesn't mean they're going to understand the arcade nature of games and why its important to make bosses modular so parts can be blown off etc. Finding someone who understands the genre you're working on might mean they need a bit of practice on the art front.
So, things got set back quite a bit. Like, a BIG bit. But I'm still planning to release the games.
The other caveat is that officially - as a company - norty games is renaming to "Team Norty" for silly reasons.