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brewen
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Post subject: Battlezone 3  Posted: February 28th, 2010, 8:08 am |
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Since Ken Miller is here I have a question. A Huge base of fans want to see Battlezone 3. Will it ever happen??
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Snowcone
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Post subject: Re: Battlezone 3 Posted: March 1st, 2010, 12:07 am |
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Joined: October 3rd, 2009, 4:20 pm
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Location: TX, GA, DC
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I'll be the bearer of bad news because this has been discussed many times in the past.
BZIII won't happen. Not saying it may not get lucky, but the outlook is grim. Ken is doing the 1.5 patch on the side, he does have a full time job to attend to. Creating a new BZ would require a massive effort from the community. This would be a bigger possibility if the community became 50x the size (rough estimate of population needed to strike some members with the ability to develop) than it is now. The name "Battlezone" is also in a grey area between Activision and Atari, so the legal issue would also be a factor (though at this point, I don't think they'd care as long as no one is making a buck off it).
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SnakeEye
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Post subject: Re: Battlezone 3 Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 9:56 am |
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Location: Åhus, Sweden
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Snowcone
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Post subject: Re: Battlezone 3 Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 7:43 pm |
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The problem with that crowd is that they are all BZ II happy. What they would have to offer in coding, modeling etc more than likely won't even apply to BZ I unless Ken rewrote the entire game engine to facilitate it.
They also cannot use "Battlezone" as the game title because of legal issues (unless if Atari and Activision swoop in and lend their support).
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Comstar
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Post subject: Re: Battlezone 3 Posted: April 3rd, 2010, 12:22 am |
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Joined: March 30th, 2010, 5:22 pm
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I am just having a rant in my brain about what I could imagine... - I imagine a full scale expansion mod for Battle zone that revamps the game... (daydreaming)
- I can imagine also a mod that uses other easier to mod engine with a public SDK, like Orbiter space simulator... (http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html)
- I also can imagine something like "Babylon 5: I've Found Her" which was made by gamers, a free space combat game set in the popular Babylon 5 universe. (download Danger and opportunity campaign from http://ifhgame.ru/main/campaigns/what-w ... pportunity)
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