Many of you will have heard of epsilon, but some will not have. Epsilon was a project undertaken by Skyhawk and a few others to provide an EV-like game that incorporated many features from plugin designers. Unfortunately the person doing the graphics engine (laer) has decided to stop. The essencially means Epsilon is dead, though it officaly in 'stasis'.

Oh well, it looks like most things go this way. I wonder how many games are scrapped by the big companies?

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Originally posted by blackhole:
**Many of you will have heard of epsilon, but some will not have. Epsilon was a project undertaken by Skyhawk and a few others to provide an EV-like game that incorporated many features from plugin designers. Unfortunately the person doing the graphics engine (laer) has decided to stop. The essencially means Epsilon is dead, though it officaly in 'stasis'.

Oh well, it looks like most things go this way. I wonder how many games are scrapped by the big companies?

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Ah yes, another prediction of mine comes true...

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Well when you play the odds you usually win

CS

Yeh, but he plays only when he knows he is going to win =P

Anyway, I think that it really finished with Sky's HD crash, it was working well before then. Anyway, Another one's down and another one's down and another one bites the dust.

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Originally posted by andrew:
**Ah yes, another prediction of mine comes true...;)

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Isn't Parsec about out? =p

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Originally posted by Soviet mikee:
**Isn't Parsec about out? =p

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No, actually, it isn't.

I have another prediction on your "3D EV-like project" too, Mikee

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Originally posted by andrew:
**No, actually, it isn't.

I have another prediction on your "3D EV-like project" too, Mikee

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There's no such thing

Was interesting to see how many people I had going though...

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Labor conquers all things.

Since I know a bit about the subject, I feel compelled to reply. Kind of.

Epsilon wasn't the result of developers giving up per se, but more the result of laer leaving for college, which left him without a Mac and without any real free time to code. The other programmer, Skyhawk, had his hard disk crash and burn losing a good amount of the code. As far as I know, laer has it all on his old PowerMac 7100 sitting in his house in Belgium, and it could be copied if need be, but without some of the major brains behind the operation it doesn't look like any work will get anytime soon.

I wish I were right as much as andrew is.

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Originally posted by andrew:
**Ah yes, another prediction of mine comes true...;)

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I want to hear more of these predictions...

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Originally posted by Metzen:
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I want to hear more of these predictions...**

heh, I doubt you will, most of these predictions happen after the event =P

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