Frontier Foundary - the start of Odyssey?

Drelthar

Drelthar
Bionic Bytes said:
I've just seen a video of Lemnis Gate - from their new publishing arm Frontier's Foundary - a multiplayer FPS strategy shooter (looks very nice actually).
I can't help but think that this is actually the basis for Odyssey though, because they share the same principles, mechanics and even assets and would most likey use the same in-house tool set to develop.
It's quite a clever approach for a studio to use the same code base and tool chain (which takes a very long time to develop) and create twice the content and twice the revenue.
This is probably why Elite's progress has been so very slow because they have effectively been working on Foundary as the primary project, and Elite Odyssey as the secondary.
Let's hope they integrate the FPS into the game world in a way that adds real value and enriches the whole experience with direct NPC access - ie give orders, career progression, etc.
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Erm....

Frontier are publishing that game. They haven't developed it. So... Nope
 

Hanerib

Hanerib
Yes, there are some very obvious similarities.

You see, Lemnos is an island in Greece, famous for it's oracle, and orpheus, sacred fires, sacrifice of virgins, and worship of Magna Dea, Cybele, after whom the island is named. (Bryant, Jacob, 1807). The word has Proto-Semitic background, I'm not quite sure why a word meaning "white" came to mean "ribbon, bundle", but we do know that the people of Lemnos were known to hand out bushels of salt for visitors to the island as a form of hospitality. (Nimrod: A Discourse on Certain Passages of History and Fable, Volym 3)

From The Altar of Dosiades (Dosiades, in Greek Anthology) we learn that:

"...When Philoctetes, who slew Paris and burnt the body of Heracles (whom Zeus begat during the three nights he lay with Alcmena) saw me, he cried out in pain, for the snake that casts its skin hurt him with its poison. And him, in the island of Lemnos where he tarried, Odysseus, the husband of Penelope, the thief of the Palladion, who went twice to Hades, and Diomede, the son of Tydeus (who ate the head of Melanippus), for the sake of his arrow, fatal to Troy, persuaded to come to the Trojan land, thrice laid waste..."
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
So Frontier Foundry.... Is this just a publishing thing for small indie Devs to release games on or is it a larger scope than that?

Basically I just want a new Virus game to come out (Zarch to some people) but I suspect it would be too much of a budget title for the FD "A team" to get behind. Was wondering if Frontier Foundry may be the kind of platform where lower budget games from FD may make an appearance?
 

Qualityoflife

Qualityoflife
Bionic Bytes said:
I've just seen a video of Lemnis Gate - from their new publishing arm Frontier's Foundary - a multiplayer FPS strategy shooter (looks very nice actually).
I can't help but think that this is actually the basis for Odyssey though, because they share the same principles, mechanics and even assets and would most likey use the same in-house tool set to develop.
It's quite a clever approach for a studio to use the same code base and tool chain (which takes a very long time to develop) and create twice the content and twice the revenue.
This is probably why Elite's progress has been so very slow because they have effectively been working on Foundary as the primary project, and Elite Odyssey as the secondary.
Let's hope they integrate the FPS into the game world in a way that adds real value and enriches the whole experience with direct NPC access - ie give orders, career progression, etc.
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If it ain't orange itz not related
 
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