There's a Q&A on
TribalWar.com with Tim Aste getting the lowdown from GarageGames on the
flurry of rumors that they are working on a "spiritual successor" to the TRIBES
series. Tim clarifies that plans for a GDC tech demo got a little blown out of
proportion, and that while it is possible that a game project will result from
all this, such talk is premature. The good news comes in word that they intend
to eventually freely release the Tech Demo that spurred all this talk of a new
TRIBES game publicly, but they are also not closing the door on the possibility
that a game will come from all of this:
This is one possibility we
are heavily considering at this time. Given the right circumstances and interest
in what we put out there this is definitely a path that we could go down. There
are a lot of factors which may or may not be obvious that come into play with
this sort of thing really. GarageGames has grown significantly over the last two
years and can finally begin approaching these sort of projects with a genuine
interest of making them a reality, but we do a lot of things different here.
Things need to match up right for us to be able to take a new project on no
matter what it is.