Duke Nukem Forever 6 - Game over

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Op maandag 11 mei 2009 22:03 schreef Athlon_2o0o het volgende:
DNF zou door kunnen gaan, maar dan moet er een nieuwe financier gevonden worden. Of een ander team zou eraan verder kunnen werken.

Ik zie geen reden om van een marketingstunt uit te gaan. 12 jaar doen over een game en dan het bedrijf failliet verklaren. Slechtere marketing kan bijna niet.

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Op maandag 11 mei 2009 22:21 schreef Gamer_V het volgende:
Het is voorbij Swetsenegger. Kom uit de ontkenningsfase.

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Op maandag 11 mei 2009 22:34 schreef Athlon_2o0o het volgende:

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Dat zou ik ook zeggen ja

Het feit dat al die media lekt, lijkt het wel te bevestigen. Oud-werknemers willen nog met hun werk pronken om later een nieuwe baan te vinden. Zodat het niet overkomt dat ze 12 jaar niks hebben zitten doen.

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Originally Posted by Swetsenegger
I can not imagine professional artists, developers, animators and designers would do such a thing because they are 'pissed'. Everybody gets screwed at work sooner or later in one or another form. Revenge sounds greats, but everybody knows it would harm your own career more then you can realise at that moment.

If these leaks are for real it could hunt those guys for years. Are they really that stupid? Would YOU leak IP from your employer just because you are pissed?

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Well, guys . . . I just drove past 3DR HQ and there were about 30 cars there. Kind of strange if the only ones left are George, Scott, Steven and Bryan and Joe! I think George is having a bit of a go with us all.

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When the news broke that Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms was shutting down, many fans were letdown--perhaps moreso than if it had happened several years ago.
The reason? After over 12 years in development, trailers were starting to find their way out again. Footage had been shown. Screenshots were released. Word from company executives indicated that the final push had began.

And following the closing of the studio, new details seem to indicate that this was the case. Leaked internal 3D Realms documents have shown that many of the game's levels were nearly finished.

"The game was awesome and getting very close," 3D Realms designer Richard Huenink tells us.

But now 3D Realms is no more, the employees already scattered. Does this leave any hope that Duke Nukem Forever, as it stands today, might eventually be released in some official form?

When asked of its deal with 3D Realms, publisher Take-Two told us that it owns the exclusive rights to publish Duke Nukem Forever. And upon further questioning, this contract appears to be binding.

"We have the exclusive publishing rights, not right of first refusal," Take-Two spokesman Alan Lewis explained. "Meaning we are the only ones that have the right to publish the title."

Lewis later clarified that these rights will never expire.

When asked whether Take-Two also owned the Duke Nukem Forever assets under that agreement, Lewis reiterated that it simply retains the publishing rights--indicating that 3D Realms likely still owns the accumulated assets and work done on DNF. 3D Realms' George Broussard declined to comment on the matter.

So while 3D Realms could independently find a new home for the game, Take-Two has the ultimate right to publish the title--or to not publish it. In the latter case, whether it would sell those rights to another company, or whether 3D Realms might try to sidestep its agreement by changing the game's content to a degree, is something that we can only speculate on.

In any case, 3D Realms still owns the rights to Duke Nukem himself, meaning that the series will not be locked down by a publisher unwilling to use it. A Fallout 3-style revival of the series by a new studio remains a possibility.

Apogee Software is promising a new Duke-related press release this week, meaning the King might return to the spotlight sooner than expected.
_bron

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Op maandag 11 mei 2009 22:53 schreef Athlon_2o0o het volgende:

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Waarom is het onlogisch? Waarom zouden ze het anders gelekt hebben?

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Op dinsdag 12 mei 2009 01:00 schreef Athlon_2o0o het volgende:

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Jawel, we weten dit: dat de studio van 3D Realms gesloten is. De rest (marketingtrucs en dat Duke al gold is en meer speculatieve onzin) bedenken anderen erbij.

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An alledged transcript of a top-secret meeting at an undisclosed location (with snipers on the roof)


Devs: OK, George, we have posted enough media to whip the fans into a frenzy.

George: Good work guys, now shut down the blogs as planned.
George: Wait! What about the bogus plot leak?

Devs: Done.

George: Splendid! Time to move to the next phase!
George: Muwahahahaha ooowahahaha haaaaaaaaaa!

Devs: Er, we'll just lay low for now, ok, boss?

George: ahhhhhahahahaha haaaaaahahaaaaaaaaahaa

Devs: ...

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Didn't no one notice the the dates of the file?

Take a look at this:



I know it's in Spanish, but below are the translations:

Organization: 3D Realms
Creation date: 09/03/07 0:28
Last modification date: 29/07/08 23:04(Marked in red)
Last printed: 29/07/08 22:50

By that time, the supposed percentage of the game levels was about 60,8%

I've been playing with these dates on Excel, and found out this:




If I'm right, the last day developers were able to work on the game was on 05/05/09 (The previous day before 3DR closed down). If the dates in that file are correct and if we take them as reference (From the first day it was created, until the last day it was modified), in 508 days a 60,8% of the game had been developed. That is an approximate average of 0,119% from the total of the game levels creation per day.

It's been 280 days since the last update of that file on 29/07/08. If we follow the approximate level creation average per day, we'd obtain that an aproximate 30%~35% of the total of the game levels have been created by the day 3DR closed.

That is, ladies and gentlemen, the state of the levels was about 90%~95% finished the day 3DR shut down!!!

I can't believe they left the game when there was only 5%~10% of content left.

Your opinions are welcome

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Op dinsdag 12 mei 2009 15:56 schreef HugoBaas het volgende:
Co-founder van Apogee Software, Terry Nagy, heeft via zijn Twitter kanaal medegedeeld dat er volgende week een aankondiging komt omtrent Duke Nukem doormiddel van een persbericht.

“New press release from Apogee Software regarding Duke Nukem coming next week.”

Afgelopen donderdag werd bekend gemaakt dat 3D Realms, ontwikkelaar van de succesvolle Duke Nukem reeks, failliet is verklaard.

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Zusterbedrijf Apogee Software, welke opgezet is nadat 3D Realms eerder in geldproblemen zaten,

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blijft wel bestaan. Momenteel zijn hun bezig met het ontwikkelen van Duke Nukem Trilogy, die voor de PSP en Nintendo DS gaan verschijnen. Of Apogee Software een aankondiging gaat doen omtrent deze game of Duke Nukem Forever, daarvoor moeten we even wachten tot volgende week.

http://twitter.com/ApogeeSoftware/status/1747381530

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Op dinsdag 12 mei 2009 15:59 schreef JohnnyKnoxville het volgende:
Mêh, lijkt wel een BNW danwel TRU speculatie op niets meer dan een Excel-bestandje.
Is wel heel erg flimsy.

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Op dinsdag 12 mei 2009 16:07 schreef HugoBaas het volgende:
Klopt is van 10 Mei inderdaad, maar zag hem net pas.

Maarja waar het mij om gaat is dat er volgende week een persbericht komt dus ben benieuwd.

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Op dinsdag 12 mei 2009 16:16 schreef Athlon_2o0o het volgende:

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Het gaat er niet om of DNF in de toekomst wel of niet uitkomt. We weten dat de studio gesloten is. De mensen staan dus op straat. Het is dan logisch dat er niet meer aan de game gewerkt wordt door 3D Realms. In de toekomst zou een ander bedrijf eraan kunnen werken, maar dat is pure speculatie.

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Op dinsdag 12 mei 2009 16:12 schreef HugoBaas het volgende:

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Of volgende week.
Sommige mensen tellen de nieuwe week vanaf zondag.