Alright, I have finished my
interview with Night Dive and here is what I was told. (Interview starts at the 14 minute mark)
NOLF:
Status is basically the same since the Kotaku article though some traction has been made but project is on the backburner at best.
Powerslave: Not completely dead but stalled because of rights issues, they tracked down the right holder and they have no interest in seeing the game released and since they know the rights holder is they can't release the game even as a free download.
Turok: The Dinosaur Hunter:
"No Comment"
Noctopolis (Begins at 35:46)
Complete access to the source code.
Very rare for Night Dive, only two or three other games they have ever worked on have had source code.
Game rebuilt from the ground up art assets have been tinkered a bit with and made sharper but limited due to age and other factors.
Updated Widescreen Support.
Will scale properly on a 16x9 display.
Completely remastered soundtrack.
Improved mouse support.
Basically a whole bunch of new features added to make the game more approachable.
Releasing later this month.
Aiming for August 27 but still subject to change.
Still a few things to take of like Steam Trading Cards and Steam Achievements
Since Notcropolis has been rebuilt from the ground up it now runs natively in Windows and will be compatible up to the latest version of Windows as well as native support for Mac and Linux.
Was once running on DOSbox at one point, compatible for the foreseeable future.
Reason for going after Noctropolis, very unique game, Steven played many point and click adventures from that time period and found the game has a really cool aesthetic.
An oddball game that the head of Night Dive just really enjoyed and when Steven discovered that the game was not available anymore he made an effort to preserve the game.
Noctropolis was an easy game to track down, got into contact with the creator and writer of the game and asked him said yes and had the source code with him.
This personage was also in contact with the original composer that allowed Night Dive to remaster the soundtrack.
They are actively looking into getting more point-and-click adventure games from that era.
The Dark Eye, Drowned God, Obsidian, The Space Bar were mentioned as titles they would love to have at some point.
Was once looking to acquiring Dark Seed but was called off in the wake of HR Giger's death.
Steven has no idea what Azrael's Tear and after looking it up he said he was going to have to look into the game future, so good job on that Dragoon En Regalia.
Finally apparently Night Dive is on the cusp of making some new announcements in late-August to early-September, we may do a follow up interview.