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Crackdown 3 pls!
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Ruffian Games: "next gen console project that we are working on for ship next year."
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Crackdown 3 pls!
Credits go to Colin Gallacher
https://twitter.com/ColinCGallacher/status/403492761871339520
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
DAT crackdown
MightyHedgehog
Member
Yes.
Steverulez
Member
Pretty sure its not Crackdown as they said they weren't working on it. Some Linkedin profiles said they were prototyping 1080p/60fps FPS on Xbox One w/UE4 and they've been doing it for longer than they spent on the entire of Crackdown 2...
A game for MS as they've worked with them for a while. They're helping on Kinect Sports Rivals too.
A game for MS as they've worked with them for a while. They're helping on Kinect Sports Rivals too.
That seems to be another project from the wording. This one is a "Large C++ next gen console project" - I don't think you use C++ in Unity
Jawmuncher
Member
If it is crackdown please be more like 1 and nothing like 2.
Crackdown 2 was one of the biggest disappointments on 360, still can't believed they mucked it all up. Especially with the zombies that just ruined the game.
Crackdown 2 was one of the biggest disappointments on 360, still can't believed they mucked it all up. Especially with the zombies that just ruined the game.
illmatic22
Banned
Hi Colin, good luck!
10 month contract sounds like they are helping out with another project for a publisher.That seems to be another project from the wording. This one is a "Large C++ next gen console project" - I don't think you use C++ in Unity
reptilescorpio
Member
Ruffian already said that Crackdown 3 isn't on the table so expect it's port work onto the next gen consoles.
Steverulez
Member
10 months away is September, could be Halo (Halo has released in September before) but I doubt it as Certain Affinity usually do Halo work.
killer_clank
Member
Don't take this as Gospel but I heard from someone vaguely in the know of that scene that Ruffian had been massively downsized and Crackdown 3 was being worked on in Sheffield or something. They could have got something else I guess and are expanding again though, but I'd be very surprised if they made Crackdown 3.
Didn't Crackdown 2 have an 8 months development time though?
Edit: Months not years.
It's possible they were bluffing, They're not going to come out and say we're working on Crackdown 3 due to NDAs.
If developers are under NDA they can't say they are working on it. They can't say "we are not allowed to talk about it" either. They can only say they're not working on it.
Nightengale
Member
Spencer likes to tease stuff a lot, but he's usually legit. Last he said was that nothing's on the table yet, so I dunno.
I think they have helped with Europe based projects so far.
People should not get too exited by this news, it will only lead to disappointment.
Steverulez
Member
But surely they could just not say anything, makes things seem a lot easier.
Sorry this is kinda offtopic but do you remember the Streets of rage prototype they made: http://www.polygon.com/2012/12/5/37...e-from-ruffian-games-shown-in-prototype-video
So this guy from Ruffian teaches in our game design course and showed us some of their pitches and design docs. We saw the same Streets of Rage video I mentioned, its Power Point pitch and another Killer Instinct pitch. The game was called Killer Instinct Reborn. There were 3D models of some characters and also a mockup video. Funnily the stage shown in the video was the same city from that Streets of Rage proto. They were going to simplify attacks (super smash style) so that dragon punch motion would be changed to just up+punch.
He said he probably shouldn't show it to us so I thought maybe this is not widely known. Tried googling and found nothing.
And he also showed us Power Point pitch of Lego style multiplayer superhero game featuring Xbox avatars. I guess that never happened either.
tl;dr Ruffian Games pitched Killer Instinct to Microsoft at some point. Mock if old.
So this guy from Ruffian teaches in our game design course and showed us some of their pitches and design docs. We saw the same Streets of Rage video I mentioned, its Power Point pitch and another Killer Instinct pitch. The game was called Killer Instinct Reborn. There were 3D models of some characters and also a mockup video. Funnily the stage shown in the video was the same city from that Streets of Rage proto. They were going to simplify attacks (super smash style) so that dragon punch motion would be changed to just up+punch.
He said he probably shouldn't show it to us so I thought maybe this is not widely known. Tried googling and found nothing.
And he also showed us Power Point pitch of Lego style multiplayer superhero game featuring Xbox avatars. I guess that never happened either.
tl;dr Ruffian Games pitched Killer Instinct to Microsoft at some point. Mock if old.
Breakfast at Noon
Member
if it is crackdown please make it fun. go see infamous.
No need to go see anything, Crackdown was already fun.
Steverulez
Member
A stupid question to ask as you probably won't answer (understandable) but any chance the game will be announced soon?
Liked Crackdown 2 for what it was, certainly interested to hear more about what you guys are up to.
I'm good at drinking beer. Hire me?
I can't tell you when they will be announced, it's not up to us to make that decision so we simply don't know. However...
There's a third project that I can talk about. Tribal Towers has been on the back-burner for the last few months and we're just about to pick it up again. We'll have some news on that in the beginning of 2014, maybe sooner, if things go well.
I'd love a new Crackdown game.
Ruffian have been working with CryEngine so they could use that engine to make it look really nice. Maybe they could also use MS' cloud service to do other stuff that may help open world games (I'm not an game dev but missions downloaded from the cloud and NPC AI sound doable).
But if it is Crackdown I hope they have been given enough time and resources to make it. Crackdown 2 seemed kind of rushed to me (from reports the dev cycle was short and a lot of the missions felt the same).
Ruffian have been working with CryEngine so they could use that engine to make it look really nice. Maybe they could also use MS' cloud service to do other stuff that may help open world games (I'm not an game dev but missions downloaded from the cloud and NPC AI sound doable).
But if it is Crackdown I hope they have been given enough time and resources to make it. Crackdown 2 seemed kind of rushed to me (from reports the dev cycle was short and a lot of the missions felt the same).
infinityBCRT
Member
The one for the next-gen game is not unity.
HigherLevel
Member
If they are doing anything Crackdown related, I could only see it being them helping another studio finish it up so they release it on time.
He said they're shaping up to have a game worth purchasing a month. Even if that includes 3rd party games, and I'm sure it does, there's still a ton of gaps throughout 2014. Leaves room for a few announcements.
Steverulez
Member
That article is odd, they've just decided its Crackdown 3 for some reason.
This is what we know from this thread:
(Adjusted the posts for relevant info)
So:
Project 1 - Unity project (or assisting Rare on KSR?)
Project 2 - Xbox One game for MS using UE4 1080p/60fps prototype? Action/adventure? (Or FPS unless prototype evolved to something else)
Project 3 - Tribal Towers using Unity?
Project 1 could be something else, I have no idea really.