SGWNews:09/25/06 Joe Ybarra with TTH at the AGC
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Article at StargateWorlds.com --- by Khatie
From Ten Ton Hammer: "Sitting at a table as developers and gamers alike milled about, I was able to talk to this pioneer of gaming about the future of Stargate Worlds as we find that not only is SG-1 is in its last season, but also that CME has announced that it will be using Epic's Unreal 3 engine in the development of this intriguing new license. "Although the game is still in early development, there is already quite a bit to talk about. Hearing about the announcement that MGM will no longer be producing new episodes of SG-1 after this season, I wanted to know how it was going to affect the game. After all, the pull of this game is that you will interact in the Stargate Universe, sometimes melding live events with episodic content.
So, is there life after SG-1?
Joe: The rights that we have are for both Atlantis and for SG-1, and Atlantis is going to go forward. So with that being said, our intimacy with the TV series is for both shows.
When we started this project last July, it wasn't clear that season 10 was even going to happen. So we had to from the very beginning design the product so that it could carry on regardless of what happened to the TV series. With that said, it really hasn't impacted what we're doing with the game at all. To further that, the people that are creating SG-1 have been alluding that there is going to be more "stuff".
"What we had originally designed in our product is that we had solid representation of Atlantis in the game, realizing that it wasn't until we would implement the expansion pack that you would get the whole 9 yards. We really wanted to focus around SG-1 and the thestorylines that we build are spanning the entire 10 seasons of the show. So there is just this huge amount of material there that we can work with. As well there are some things that we are doing to extend the saga."
