8/07/99 - Latest News

Platus Productions and ‘The Trilogy’
Christian @ 10:03 pm EST

Platus are working on making a game independently. They’re doing it for love, and for fun. Just the other week, we did an interview with Wynn, the head designer on this project. Wynn gave us a few insights into what we can expect and hope for. It does sound like fun. If you want to read the platus interview, the go here. This is a log of the interview Wynn gave us.

Ok, here’s the skinny for those of you that don’t know… The game is in the initial stages of development. The team at Platus is working hard on designing the system. Currently they’re going through a stage of gaining information, and developing characters. The game will be ready before the movie, and it will be distributed freely over the world wide web.

Apparently Platus have some concerns about licensing issues with their game. This may be due to Sierra owning the exclusive rights to the games from Tolkien Enterprises. Now personally I think that they should not need to worry as they’re making the game for love, and they’re doing it for free. So speaking I am not a lawyer, and as such I have no ideas how these things work. I do know Platus are working very hard speaking to the Tolkien Estate trying to get permission so that everyone can be happy. If they do get permission they can make the game even cooler, and incorporating multi-player elements and other such things. Personally I hope they do, and in my opinion, I think companies like Sierra should support independent game makers. These guys are going it alone, for love, to make an awesome game. To me that seems like a resource being created, that Sierra (or any other production corporations) could use.

Anyway, I hope Platus makes a game that rocks hard, so remember to give them your support a feedback link will be available in the near future, as will a link to their web site. I’ll endeavour to keep you updated with progress from here!

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