Ecrofirt said:
I know we have some of the game's devs here at GAF, and it's sad to see what happened with the game. Everything I played was awesome.
You rang? This is news to me somewhat, although Gossett, from what I gather, was hinting that a deal was about to be done shortly some months back. That said, I've just grown accustomed to that line from various people so I didn't take much stock in it; if true, fantastic. I'd love to own a copy of the one and only game I had a hand in.
As to clarify for the team that made it, it's not really any one team; it was a mix of people from the last Turok, Vexx, and some other Acclaim titles, as people shifted between teams during new projects. Where those people went is hard to say for sure; I'm only familiar with the design team in particular, since I was part of it. Some of us, myself included, have left the industry, while others have picked up gigs at various studios around the country; as far as I'm aware, no two designers actually work at the same studio, and a lot of the people that worked on The Red Star are so scattered that you'll unlikely see us work together again.
I'm not sure how big the comic fanbase is, but a lot of the reason that the game got attention from the gaming press had more to do with its old school mechanics and throwback nature of the game. That and the unfortunate timing of Acclaim's demise left the game in a perpetual teaser state; the public go to play it in pieces at E3 and on the OXM demo, while some of the press got to play the entire thing. Frankly, I'm just glad people like the game, and I'll be ecstatic if the game actually comes out.
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