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[Zeenbor]

Well, it started with a post on Gaming-Age and it will end on a similar note.

Square Enix has just issued a Ceast and Desist on Chrono Resurrection and it is with our deepest regret that we have to halt development on the project. What the team is wondering why Square Enix chose to close down the project now instead of when we launched at the project during E3... We acknowledged that their intervention was inevitable, we just did not know when they would intervene.

As a form of shock relief, we have new media available, which includes a 2 minute trailer and 15 screenshots of the last development of Chrono Resurrection. And we want to thank some of people here at Gaming-Age that have made us smile many times.

Edit: Here's a link to the web site where you can see the rest of the media and the trailer: www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono.

 

[Wario64]

It was bound to happen :|

It looked great too...oh well

 

[DSN2K]

only a matter of time really....

 

[djtiesto]

This looked great, too... nice job. Hopefully you can find work in the industry so your talents won't go to waste.

 

[Greenpanda]

Shokku!

 

[Kon Tiki]

Link to the video?

 

[Kiriku]

Wow, looked really great in those shots! I'm thoroughly impressed by the graphics. And saddened by these unfortunate news.

 

[shuri]

Holy shit that looked great, too bad dude. Couldnt just you recycle the engine and work on a real game?

 

[belgurdo]

Holy shit that looked great, too bad dude. Couldnt just you recycle the engine and work on a real game?

Yeah, do that

 

[fennec fox]

Holy shit that looked great, too bad dude. Couldnt just you recycle the engine and work on a real game?

My sentiments exactly. If you possess that kind of talent, patience, and drive, don't do fanfiction!

 

[Dagless M.D.]

Sorry to hear, but you put out some great work on it, I'd love to see you re-use the engine with your own IP

 

[Kiriku]

Just saw the trailer, and I was equally impressed...really nice animation too, for a fan project.

 

[Defensor]

As expected. While a nice fan project, you don't really think Square-Enix would have let this thing fly right?

 

[AlphaSnake]

Just work on it quietly. And then leak it. Blame it on haxxorz.

 

[cvxfreak]

That's too bad...

 

[TheGreenGiant]

It was bound to happen :|

It looked great too...oh well

.. i never understood how you guys thought you would get away with remaking someone else's ip. Fan art yes... to remake a game... no. Looks nice and you guys should try to take this to a publisher and say; this is what we're capable of.

 

[deadhorse32]

 

[Rei_Toei]

Sorry to hear this, you guys did a great job!

 

[aku:jiki]

Wow! I always thought the new version of Crono's room looked pretty good, but the shots of Magus and that skeleton thing just blew me away.

If you guys have the motivation to start something fresh, I'd say give TheGreenGiant's advice a shot. Maybe someone like Majesco would be into it, which isn't a bad thing at all. (I mean, despite the fact that most people think they suck, they could probably pay some bills for you and you'd get to make a "real" game if you're lucky.)

 

[Culex]

Damn you Square!

 

[miyuru]

*listening to "Oh! Ellin"*

*tear*

 

[The Bookerman]

.. i never understood how you guys thought you would get away with remaking someone else's ip. Fan art yes... to remake a game... no. Looks nice and you guys should try to take this to a publisher and say; this is what we're capable of.

It wasn't the hole game, just a demo of some of the battles. Plus, if I read it right, the engine was also runnin on the game cube, ps2?

 

[Docpan]

I bet someone at Square Enix is going to look at that trailer and say to himself: "What have we done???"

EDIT:

Was the engine made from scratch? If so, holy shite.

 

[The Bookerman]

As expected. While a nice fan project, you don't really think Square-Enix would have let this thing fly right?

They're Japanease, they don't let others play with their ip's.


Blizzard has let some other people develop some fan projects.

Seriously, where's the harm for Square?

It's a way to appreciate the IP.

Hell where's the often rumored Chrono Break?

 

[Senretsu]

Too bad it was stopped, but it was pretty much guaranteed to happen, they didn't have to do a thing except send letter when they saw it as a threat to themselves, which is probably why they waited so long.

You guys have some great talent, even the music was good, I hope you won't be discouraged and continue to make cool stuff because you're definitly capable of it. Something original would be even cooler than CT.

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Make an original game out of it. If you need original designs to go with that graphic engine, send me a PM

 

[Slo]

Excellent work. I'd kill to play that game, I second the HAXXOR idea.

 

[neptunes]

wow, just wow!

I hope you guys make your own fresh and original game.

 

[jett]

Sorry to hear, but you should've figured something like this would happen.

 

[Kon Tiki]

Just watched the trailer. Wow. You should court youself to Tecmo. That looks as good as Ninja Gaiden.

 

[Kiriku]

I think making an original game would be a lot harder. I mean, doing a remake like this they don't have to come up with original locations, battle system(s), characters (art + personalites), story, music...etc etc. Doing a remake of Chrono Trigger, they got some nice material to work with, so to speak. I'm not out to downplay the great work they've done in this remake, but it doesn't really prove they are capable of making a great game on their own. Of course, I would love to see them prove they are capable.

 

[Naked Snake]

I think Zeenbor (the creator of this thread) already works for a game company, so he is actually making real games

Yeah it's sad that this project was forced to shut down like this, but as long as the people making it enjoyed the journey, not all is lost. And I'm sure they learned and benefited a lot from the experience, and it will pay off in their other work.

 

[UltimateMarioMan]

Why don't fangame makers finish their games THEN let pople know about in and downlod it? Then it'd be all over the place before anything could be done about it.

 

[Kon Tiki]

C&D are better than lawsuits?

 

[Kiriku]

And I'm sure they learned and benefited a lot from the experience, and it will pay off in their other work.

Unless they end up making some shitty platformer because they were being spanked by the publisher for not making it in time. :/

 

[Great Wasabi Man]

Sorry to hear that, CT being my fav game I was really looking foward to it.

 

[Pachinko]

If I were those guys I'd be asking squaresoft for more help and approval to actually finish the whole game with this engine. I mean WOW.

Chrono Trigger is pretty well my favorite console RPG of all time so I'd buy something like this in a heartbeat if it were an actual product. I can't be alone in this thinking.

 

[hobbitx]

Man does that suck, I was so looking forward to this little project. It sucks when talented devs get their indy projects shut down like this. If it's free and they aren't profitting what's the big threat here?

 

[belgurdo]

What you guys should do is just dump Chrono and Magus and just make an original game out of the rest. Save your work and stick it to SE in the process!

 

[Chrono]

Man does that suck, I was so looking forward to this little project. It sucks when talented devs get their indy projects shut down like this. If it's free and they aren't profitting what's the big threat here?

There's no threat.... Unless SquareEnix is working on a Chrono Trigger remake for PS3.

 

[Dagless M.D.]

if this is actually running on ps2, then its far and beyond anything Square has done graphics wise

 

[neptunes]

What you guys should do is just dump Chrono and Magus and just make an original game out of the rest. Save your work and stick it to SE in the process!

hmm...I agree.

Of course you would have to change some of the maps and characters that have a resemblence to the original game.

 

[Vargas]

There's no threat.... Unless SquareEnix is working on a Chrono Trigger remake for PS3.

Or maybe the PSP. Didn't IGN have a page up on their PSP site back around E3 that listed it? I can't find it now.

 

[hobbitx]

There's no threat.... Unless SquareEnix is working on a Chrono Trigger remake for PS3.

Even then though, how could a little fan made project compete with an official remake with multi-milion dollar ad campaign? I remember people said stuff like this about the DBZ Quake mod getting canned because it's a threat that takes away from real DBZ games. Can anyone give me a real example of a fan project outdoing and taking away from a real title made by a company? I'm not trying to be a smartass here, I really want to know.

 

[Doom_Bringer]

shit that sucks! nice screens.

hopefully they will leak some demo or something on the internet

 

[Naked Snake]

if this is actually running on ps2, then its far and beyond anything Square has done graphics wise

You can't be serious... Did you even see FF12 in motion?

 

[Doom_Bringer]

the trailer looks great

 

[Insertia]

Looks great, but why did you guys even bother?

You had to know at some point Square was going to order you to stop.

Would have been better off creating original work.

 

[Kon Tiki]

IIRC, the point was to show off the engine, not the actual game.

 

[Zeenbor]

Looks great, but why did you guys even bother?

You had to know at some point Square was going to order you to stop.

Would have been better off creating original work.

We just wanted to see what it would be like to create a remake of our favorite game. We really didn't care about legal ramifications during development. If it happens, it happens.

In reality, we were just doing it for practice and entertainment. We always challenge ourselves with different goals with different situations to prepare us and strengthen our skills. Doing this project has allowed us to see our current potential.

Besides, we love Chrono Trigger. To be trying to understand your favorite game to the matter of dissecting it and re-creating it is an immense challenge. And a very fun one as well.