Dean Hall - creator of the marvellous, fantastic and zombiesque Day-Z mod for Arma 2 that got bought and will be turned into a boxed-game has some very good news for the impatient.
The game was announced as a standalone title from Arma publisher Bohemia Interactive back in August. Speaking at the Eurogamer Expo, Hall over-turned fears that as per usual development and publishing cycles this might mean it not appearing on shelves for years.
"It has to be out before the end of the year."
He continued, "Not just because we've committed to it but in order to achieve what we have to do. It has to be. There's no 'we hope it is'; it has to be. And it's going to be cheap. We've decided that we don't need to sell a heap of units in order for us to be OK with where it's going. The more units we sell of it the more ambitious we get, because the project has the better resources.
"I like to think we're taking cautious and sensible steps at the moment. I don't really like cautious and sensible. DayZ as a mod wasn't cautious and sensible. But our first few steps have to be that. And if we can achieve that in December, then in January and February we can start to do all the cool stuff, move to more ambitious features."
Cheers to MCV
The game was announced as a standalone title from Arma publisher Bohemia Interactive back in August. Speaking at the Eurogamer Expo, Hall over-turned fears that as per usual development and publishing cycles this might mean it not appearing on shelves for years.
"It has to be out before the end of the year."
He continued, "Not just because we've committed to it but in order to achieve what we have to do. It has to be. There's no 'we hope it is'; it has to be. And it's going to be cheap. We've decided that we don't need to sell a heap of units in order for us to be OK with where it's going. The more units we sell of it the more ambitious we get, because the project has the better resources.
"I like to think we're taking cautious and sensible steps at the moment. I don't really like cautious and sensible. DayZ as a mod wasn't cautious and sensible. But our first few steps have to be that. And if we can achieve that in December, then in January and February we can start to do all the cool stuff, move to more ambitious features."
Cheers to MCV
Games:
ArmA II
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