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Subject: Bear's Pit Interview with Ian Currie about Flashback, JA3 and life in general Posted by Shanga on Tue, 14 May 2013 06:16:19 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message Quote: Since we got the official confirmation Ian is with us on the JA:F KS, let's think of some questions for an interview. I'll compile the best and send them over to him. Update: We're also preparing an interview with the CEO of FC, Thomas Hentschel Lund. If you have questions for that interview, add them here, too. As a matter of fact, I can try and get Chris Camfield to answer some too, so add him to the list too. Quote:Disclaimer in very small print: we reserve the right to select the questions we find appropriate. Subject: Re: Bear's Pit Interview with Ian Currie about Flashback, JA3 and life in general Posted by Loki7285 on Tue, 14 May 2013 06:20:59 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message 1. Are you happy that FC picked up the Jagged Alliance Franchise and is trying to make a game worthy of the name? 2. Would you like to make another Jagged Alliance? 3. Have you played BIA? How did you like it? Subject: Re: Bear's Pit Interview with Ian Currie about Flashback, JA3 and life in general Posted by derek on Tue, 14 May 2013 06:58:59 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message Bivol1. Are you happy that FC picked up the Jagged Alliance Franchise and is trying to make a game worthy of the name? 2. Would you like to make another Jagged Alliance? 3. Have you played BIA? How did you like it? 4. thoughts about 1.13 and community Page 1 of 13 ---- Generated from The Bears Pit 5. would you like to get involved in this project? Subject: Re: Bear's Pit Interview with Ian Currie about Flashback, JA3 and life in general Posted by Shanga on Tue, 14 May 2013 09:06:21 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message @Ian Everyone thinks they know "what is JA". Most got it wrong. For you which is THAT feature that makes JA a unique title and defines it as a highlight of the TBS genre? Have you ever before felt as confident about a successor of JA2 being made? And did you try to offer advice to any of the previous developers? Back in the old days you talked in great detail about the hardships to put a game on the market, with distribution chains being controlled by the big companies and absurd pressure being put on smaller developers. Do you think that has changed since Steam and other digital platforms emerged? Would've JA2 had a much brighter future if you had Steam back in 2000s? If you still had the JA license yourself, you would've made the next game by crowd-funding or the traditional way (through a publisher)? We know a couple of former Sirtechies were let down by the Kickstarter adventure, did that lower your enthusiasm about crowd-funding? On one of this posts on Bear's Pit, Chris Camfield estimated that JA2 budget was roughly 4 million USD. And that was for a team of 12 people working on an isometric engine. Would that be enough to make JA2 at today's standards? About JA2, there was a debate on what engine you used for it. Camfield said on the forums that you basically had to write it from scratch. Some websites are reporting JA2 and Fallout share the same isometric engine. Care to clear tha up? And while are on game engines, if you were to make JA3, would you pick Unity or go for something like Unreal? If the money wasn't an issue (it always is, we know) which of the modern engines you'd see best suitable for a game like JA3? Going back to JA:F, considering nowdays you're just a fan (with golden wings, but still) like the rest of us, what feature from the past games you'd like to see in it? You can pick from anywhere in the series, from the features that were scrapped for JA2 or from v1.13 (or any other mods). And you can only pick one. [..] @Chris You worked for a year on JA3 only to see it cancelled. If you'll ever get the chance to start again on it, what is that one feature from the old project you'd bring along?We know how you felt when you heard the news about JA3 project being canned and we shared those feelings over the years. We didn't push much for info back then, but now would you tell us a few words about what you left behind? What stage was JA3? What did you had in store to amaze us? Have you ever thought about going to Kickstarter to publish a game yourself or you got turned away from it by what happened to Brenda's project?We know you were a driving force behind rallying former Sir-tech staff to support JA:F. We know Ian and Andrew Simmons are backing JA:F KS. What are the others feeling about this?Would you pay for a young-sexier-than-Brad-Pitt Gumpy if we get Full Control to make one for you? Page 2 of 13 ---- Generated from The Bears Pit [..] @Thomas What did you know about the JA community before the project and how did this KS change your views?We know Sir-techies basically put themselves in JA2, with mercs, NPCs and locations sharing their looks or their names. Ian was Madlab, Eric was Dr. Q, etc. If you were to put yourself in the game, describe your merc/npc in a few words.On that line, ask around the office and tell us how your main team sees them as a JA:F merc/NPC.Which is your favourite fan-made suggestion so far (made on KS page, your forum or Bear's Pit), the one that made you go "oh why didn't we think of that"?Now that you have earned the trust and friendship of so many people in the community, if the KS doesn't work, have you considered developing your own TBS title with community help, even without a JA license?Did we make you work more overtime on this KS than you ever imagined? [..] Subject: Re: Bear's Pit Interview with Ian Currie about Flashback, JA3 and life in general Posted by Loki7285 on Tue, 14 May 2013 09:44:25 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message 1. Are you happy that FC picked up the Jagged Alliance Franchise and is trying to make a game worthy of the name? 2. Would you like to make another Jagged Alliance? 3. Have you played BIA? How did you like it? 4. thoughts about 1.13 and community 5. would you like to get involved in this project? 6. How much would you pledge for such a project? 7. What is your opinion about DLC's? 8. Would you do yourself a Kickstarter for a Jagged Alliance 3, if you had the rights to do it? Subject: Re: Bear's Pit Interview with Ian Currie about Flashback, JA3 and life in general Posted by Peal on Tue, 14 May 2013 09:52:28 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message - How is your feeling about going into 3D ( vs Isometric View) Page 3 of 13 ---- Generated from The Bears Pit - Jagged Alliance2 had a huge amount of details in every gameplay aspect, do you think FC can rebuild such an level of depth with probably very limited funding? Subject: Re: Bear's Pit Interview with Ian Currie about Flashback, JA3 and life in general Posted by Peal on Tue, 14 May 2013 10:02:34 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message What do you think about the story setting FC is going about. Do you think that involving existing nations and organisations is a bad thing for the connotation in story-telling? Subject: Re: Bear's Pit Interview with Ian Currie about Flashback, JA3 and life in general Posted by gdalf on Tue, 14 May 2013 10:07:21 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message Looking back now, what do you see were the crucial components that gave Jagged Alliance the longevity it has had? If you were to do it all over again, what would you do differently? BIG props to Ian for coming in at this stage! Subject: Re: Bear's Pit Interview with Ian Currie about Flashback, JA3 and life in general Posted by Peal on Tue, 14 May 2013 10:09:00 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message Can you tell us about your life now and what you are doing at Turbine? *I'M AT WORK SHANGA, WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME NOW! Subject: Re: Bear's Pit Interview with Ian Currie about Flashback, JA3 and life in general Posted by Peal on Tue, 14 May 2013 10:18:37 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message Also ask him about the rest of the Sirtech folks, what they are doing and if he keeps contact. Sorry for spamming here shanga but I don't have time right now, just wanted to leave this: Page 4 of 13 ---- Generated from The Bears Pit It seems like Ian wants to be an MERC in JA:F i mean how cool would be his appearance in the game as MERC or NPC He already covered himself in camouflage already Subject: Re: Bear's Pit Interview with Ian Currie about Flashback, JA3 and life in general Posted by Shanga on Tue, 14 May 2013 10:35:20 GMT View Forum Message <> Reply to Message Peal He already covered himself in camouflage already THANK GOD he changed that pic, told you he was scaring the crap out of me when he popped up on my Wall.