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Offline Krackers87

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on: December 21, 2004, 08:51:13 pm
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- Chris Taylor wants to make a "Really Cool Wargame" (Anyone know when CT was born ?)
- 1995 : Chris Taylor starts making it for Humongous Entertainement
- 1997 : GT Interactive purchases Humongous from Ron Gilbert and Shelley Day.
- 1997 : As Humongous Entertainment was usually doing baby videogames, to avoid taunting when announcing a great RTS, they decide to create a small company, called Frozen Yak. Eventually they find that Cavedog sounds better
- 1997 : Cavedog releases TA
- 1998 : Cavedog releases TA:CC
- 1998 : Cavedog makes Boneyard
- 1998 : Chris Taylor leaves Cavedog
- ???? : Cavedog makes TA:BT, TA:K, TA:K:IP
- ???? : GT Interactive has financial difficulties, which impact on Humongous and so on Cavedog
- 2000 : Infogrames absorbs GT Interactive, and so gets the TA license
- 2002 : Infogrames announces that they asked a small Korean company called Phantagram to develop a TA2
- 2003 : Infogrames takes the name of Atari, so as to hide its French armadillo origin and take advantage of Atari fame.
- ???? : For reasons undisclosed, Phantagram is no longer involved with a TA2 project
- 2004 : Grok, from Atari Public Relations, mod of Atari TA forums, posts cryptic messages about a new TA.
- 2004 : We believe there isn't any official TA2 project any more.


Meanwhile :
- 1998 : Chris Taylor has founded a company called Gas Powered Games (GPG)
- 2002 : GPG issues its first game, Dungeon Siege
- ???? : Dungeon Siege is successful
- 2003 : Jeremy Snook (GPG Online Producer) tells us that "RTS 2.0" is in pre-production :
- 2003 : We know the name will be Supreme Commander (SUPCOM for short)
- 2004 : Chris Taylor begins to annouced that they are working on a new RTS
- 2004 : Which is due to be published by Electronic Arts in 2006
- Now : Many TAers look forward to what could be an unofficial sequel to TA.


Found this very intresting while browsing through TAU
« Last Edit: December 21, 2004, 09:20:52 pm by 1143 »
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he's waiting on last calls
well listen method man
'cause if you leave on the last line
don't leave on the ground kind
born just a little too slow
 

Offline willy_principal

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Reply #1 on: December 23, 2004, 06:42:07 pm
I though this was a forum about Freespace...sorry...i must be lost...............(i'm obiously joking)
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Offline Kosh

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Reply #2 on: December 24, 2004, 02:11:08 am
Shouldn't this be moved to the main Hard Light forum?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Krackers87

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Reply #3 on: December 24, 2004, 05:12:55 pm
Yes, i posted about that in the IG2 thread
Put this in your profile if you know someone who is fighting, has survived, or has died from an awp no scope.

just like seventies goofballs
he's waiting on last calls
well listen method man
'cause if you leave on the last line
don't leave on the ground kind
born just a little too slow
 

Offline IceFire

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Reply #4 on: December 24, 2004, 05:33:13 pm
Moved to the appropriate forum.
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Offline SadisticSid

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Reply #5 on: December 25, 2004, 10:13:52 am
I chatted with Chris Taylor at the end of 2002 I think, we were discussing ideas for a (non-starter) TA2 game we had in mind. At around the same time I think we chatted to Jeremy Snook and someone else on IRC as well when they had just started brainstorming for 'TA2', it was cool :)
 

Offline Moonsword

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Reply #6 on: December 25, 2004, 10:29:48 am
It could be interesting, but I'm taking a 'wait-and-see' attitude on this one.  Kingdoms wasn't that great, IMO, not as good as TA.
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Offline SadisticSid

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Reply #7 on: December 25, 2004, 10:32:24 am
Well Kingdoms wasn't a Chris Taylor title, he'd left Cavedog by then. But then I wasn't too enthusiastic about Dungeon Siege, it was basically a better-looking Diablo clone.
 

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Reply #8 on: December 25, 2004, 05:01:32 pm
I was JUST looking up TA-related news on Gamespot not 5 minutes ago! Great timing on the info, Krackers. :yes:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline SadisticSid

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Reply #9 on: December 28, 2004, 08:21:48 pm
Sarny... you might be interested in this:

http://taspring.clan-sy.com/
  

Offline Liberator

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Reply #10 on: December 28, 2004, 10:16:48 pm
That link is very cool!
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

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Reply #11 on: December 29, 2004, 03:11:59 am
Ooh, kewlness!
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #12 on: December 29, 2004, 03:47:58 am
[q] 2003 : We know the name will be Supreme Commander (SUPCOM for short)[/q]

Derek Smart will be having kittens over that.........
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