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Interview with JE Sawyer @ NMA

(PC: Single-Player RPG) | Posted by Dhruin @ Wednesday - July 02, 2003 - 04:05 -
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No Mutants Allowed has interviewed JE Sawyer, Lead Designer at Black Isle Studios on their unannounced Van Buren project (which is likely to be Fallout 3). In part 1, they discuss the engine and a little about the setting:
Its no secret Van Buren will be a hybrid between Turn Based and Real Time, can you clarify for all the thousands of Black Isle Studio fans reading this, the reason for making it a hybrid as opposed to one or the other?

TB is a niche that most publishers are unwilling to mine with what is supposed to be a "Triple A" title. Publishers generally cannot be convinced that it will sell well enough to justify the money put towards the project.
Publishers almost always want RT in games. If a developer tells them, "Well, we can only do one or the other," RT is the option they will pick. Given the choice between having a RT and TB component at 80-90% of their potential or RT at 100% without any TB component, we'd rather have the former.
Source: Duck and Cover
 
 
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