DescentBB

...and not DescentIV.

*www.orbital-inc.com*

Great logo.

Cougar made it, 16 years ago.

If Descent 4 were real, how do you picture it? (Both gameplay- and story-wise)

Well, from my point of view it is real, if rather buggy. I still have the rough alpha version of the game Orbital produced in 2002, but am not permitted to share.

However, It wouldn't sell in today's market. Any published Descent IV would need a significantly different design than what we worked from in 02, or what 1-3 were built on. People expect a great array of feature sets from other genres now, like RPG and RTS games. Single player doesn't matter much, though if you do develop a SP campaign, it's expected to not be level-based or linear. It'd be a huge challenge to make a Descent game today that can achieve any reasonable success.

It is perfectly fine for modern games to have a linear single player with a relatively limited feature set, take Doom 2016 for example. It is one of the best games this decade and it doesn't have an open world, non-linear plot, or much in the way of RPG or RTS elements.

Now that's a blast from the past

It's revived. Working on something new, but not anything Descent. Wanted to head off the rumor mill before one of you guys spotted us back online.

Very cool news.
If you need music I'm your man-- err... cat maybe?

Alter-Fox wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 3:01 pm If you need music I'm your man-- err... cat maybe?

I'm no botanist, but I'm pretty sure a fox is more a dog.

Just tried Overload. That's D4 for me. Waiting happily for the release this summer.

Why not Descent?

Reasons™

overload is fun

Valin Halcyon wrote: ↑Sun Apr 29, 2018 6:42 pm It's revived. Working on something new, but not anything Descent. Wanted to head off the rumor mill before one of you guys spotted us back online.

That would have meant someone would have been looking for you.


...nobody was.

Isaac wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 10:10 pm

Alter-Fox wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 3:01 pm If you need music I'm your man-- err... cat maybe?

I'm no botanist, but I'm pretty sure a fox is more a dog.

Wait. You mean foxes are yellow and spotty too?

Valin Halcyon wrote: ↑Wed May 02, 2018 5:43 pm Reasons™

I hate you. ^_^