Prey? Old news, eh?

What happened with Prey??
old knows iknow but cancled released? what?
hit me back

[PsychoGoatee]

Prey is officially "On Hold" till DNF is released. I hope they don't cancel it, Prey was looking good

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[Crosma]

It looks like 3D Realms will abandon Prey. Since they'll have to remake it from scratch they'll have other ideas of games to make and Prey won't be any further ahead than those.

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I todaly disagree with needing to start Pray over from scratch. 3Drealms will probebly continue developing Prey after DNF is released.

[PsychoGoatee]

Crosma, why would you think they'd have to start Prey over from scratch? They'd just have to update the code, but they still have plenty to work with

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[Crosma]

Code - Hasn't been updated for a while, so it'd need a lot of work. They'd have to get someone who hasn't seen it before, this person would take ages to figure it all out (I'm sure it's bloody complicated). When you consider these points then code might as well be rewritten from scratch.

Levels/Models - These were modelled for the old engine, even if the new engine supports them then they'd look very "undetailed", probably unacceptably. You can't really just add polygons either, these would need to be done again.

Sound/Music - Doubt these were started.

That's just about everything major. You can't just leave a project and pick it up again at a later date. Personally I think 3D Realms did a good job of stopping the project, they had other stuff to concentrate on (like DNF for one).

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[Joe Siegler]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Sound/Music - Doubt these were started.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ah - the outsider knows what's going on here.

Seriously. Yes, these were started. Remember KMFDM?

Again folks - Prey is on hold until Duke Nukem Forever (and all subsequent addons & patches) are done. At that point we will make a decision on what to do with Prey. Not before.

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[Deranged]

last I heard:

Corrinne Yu is writting a new engine for Prey.

Prey is probaly 5 years away.

When/If you start working on prey again, you probably wont announce it publicly.

right?

Even the old engine looks pretty damn good by today's standards.

[Joe Siegler]

Corrine isn't here, and hasn't worked here for several months. There has been NOTHING going on Prey wise since she left.

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