TradeWars could be like Halo or Call of Duty with large face-to-face tournaments!! How sweet would it be to come in and play face-to-face locally with only a barebones copy of twx and zoc running and no access to download scripts?? How cool would it be to get like 1 hour before game time with the machines to write scripts for your team, and play on!

Heh oh how I dream

It's not fair, I am sure you type faster than me (most everyone does)... lol

ROFL

I honestly believe that J.Pl is sitting on a Gold Mine. TradeWars could migrate to a console platform and give EVE (which is Darn boring), a run for its money. The console world needs sometging that isnt a second/third person shooter.

But, you have to find a developer and some investors.. To make a game of this magnitude would take some investments.. I'd be willing

You actually hit it on the head. It's been difficult finding investment. We had an investor for a major new project a little over a year ago, but after 9 months work, we lost our investor. Then another project was slated to begin, but before it could even start, same thing, lost investor. It's a tough market. It doesn't even have anything to do with TradeWars and the viability of the game. When we lost our investor the first time, they yanked funding for about 20 different games that were in the pipeline. It's just a tough time for game dev right now.

Depends on the development. Daala and I have done quite well so far with our developments.

Just kicking tires here, lol, TradeWars: New Dawn or TradeWars: Project Phoenix (heh already made a logo for that one!)

Do we have someone with Maya Experince? I have no doubt this community can put a bare bones example togther for one of the big boys out there... something like a battle at terra... hm

3DS Max and Maya under our belt. Zbrush, Sculptris, Photoshop CS4, and other software. Fragmotion for animation. Good software, fun to use.

Hmmm and with all this experince out there what are we waiting on!! Let me just tell you if you could make a game that had all the same short cuts as trade wars and made a friendly game with the ability to create bots... whoa what a nightmare to eve we would be! this game has such a huge name recogntion factor, and once more if you would make a game that you could play online with players from xbox, play station network, computer, you would have a massive hit...

The issue is what to create it in, meaning which engine. We deal mainly with Torque 3D, UDK, Unity, and a couple of other ones. We also have done porting into Android. What platform would be best to facilitate all ideas... That is the first step.

It's a big project, that's for sure.

That is very true... but I think with some brains involved here, and let me make this point with JP in full, FULL control, porting this game over to a graphical version would be a HUGE step. I know I am willing to donate whatever time I can... I know that alot of others out there would be too, I know for a fact now we have all the pices of the puzzle...

Wonder if anyone would be intrested in kicking tires togther... And with JP in full control we can make sure this idea doesnt get hi-jacked...

Just a thought, Nelly the hip-hop artist burst into a conference room full of people and rapped one of his first huge hits to get his record deals, a very well yet small put togther idea for this game could go along way to gaining finance... Facebook?

I think it's great what you guys are doing, Thrawn, but I'm talking about millions of dollars investment. To accomplish what we want to do with this game, it requires more than just personal investment. We burned through about $250K in the 9 months dev we already did, before the remainder of the project got canceled. I can't afford to keep that kind of burn rate going on my own. I have no problem investing my time in projects, which I've done with TradeWars for years, but I can't expect others, professionals, to do that. If you want a serious team of developers and artists, you gotta pay for it.

If you know of any potential investors, I'm all ears ;) We're working as many opportunities as we can.

I just caught the post from Ender. BTW, I love your enthusiasm, Ender ;) But let me tell you, we've had meetings with both Zynga and Playdom to pitch TW games for facebook and though both showed some interest, neither ultimately bit. You're more likely to see these companies release their own clone of TradeWars if they think it has potential. Now, that's not to say that a TW game for facebook won't happen. Just that those were dead-ends.

The Face Book, started with a thousand dollars.

'just sayin' - Helix

Right LoneStar that is what I was saying!! I just think you have such power here and dedication with this game JP, please dont be offended if I say you can do anything with this game you want, you just need some very intesive people backing you up and pushing you for better! You kick Butt on keeping this game up, but if you march into the board room to present the game, just play a video, sit back and watch, fotons flying everywhere, traders screaming for backup, the federation warning of impending intervention, the ferrengi egging it on... and at the end cut from the scene quickly... How does it end...? You must decide trader! w00t w00t