id Software Working on New Title 157
id Software has announced that, powered by the 'magic' of a new Carmack-crafted engine, an entirely new franchise is on the way. GamesIndustry.biz reports that the venerable FPS development house is hard at work on a completely original game. Without ties to Doom or Quake, the company hopes to begin moving in some new and interesting directions. "Id's last major internally developed title was 2004's Doom 3, which utilized new technology created by Carmack. In the interim, id's technical director has been heavily involved in bringing games onto mobile, including Doom RPG and Orcs & Elves. 'Our first task at id is as a single studio developer,' [Todd] Hollenshead continued. 'That's really where everything spawns from. Because John Carmack is a programming genius, who in my opinion is unequalled in video games today, he makes a great technology that we can use across a wide range of applications and different games within our suite of franchises. The new stuff that we're working on does have a brand new engine that John has been working on, actually is still working on today. We can't really talk any details about it; we'll see about when the timing is right for an announcement. We like to be able to talk about stuff that we can show at the same time and it's not really ready to show yet.'"
Re:News Flash (Score:4, Insightful)
And, that Carmack is working on it. Which, apparently to some people, is as good as Jobs promising a new product -- pure magic.
I bet there will be audible squeals from some people over that alone! (Note: not me, I'm too old to squeal over such things. =)
Cheers
New, improved vaporware... (Score:2, Insightful)
"Mr. Carmack, how's your new game?"
"People will bow to it."
Its really great! (Score:4, Insightful)
Nothing to see here...
Re:Its really great! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:OpenGL? (Score:4, Insightful)
With Unreal and Source taking strides, maybe technology is getting to a point where the return on investment of in-depth super genius work in a graphics engine is too low to justify.
After all:
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
- John Carmack
Ahem (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:New, improved vaporware... (Score:3, Insightful)
I think long building hype sets you up for failure... Daikatana and Duke Nukem Forever?
Re:id couldn't be original if they fell out of a b (Score:2, Insightful)