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Castaway Entertainment almost dead
Castaway Entertainment, a group of ex-Diablo devs, is practically done for if they don't find extra financing soon enough.
Castaway's Michael Scandizzo explains:
Castaway (founded in 2003) has now reduced its staff from 25 to six people and development on whatever they were still working on has been halted. Their only real "achievement" since then has been Yaris, an Xbox Live game but it seems clear they were ready for something much bigger.
Something like Djinn, a 3D hack 'n slash game which was rejected by EA during its development. Check out this Youtube video for an early 2005(!) build of the game:
Castaway's Michael Scandizzo explains:
"If somebody came in tomorrow and said, 'Here's a whole bunch of money. Can you get back up and running,' then Monday we could be back up and running," Scandizzo said. "But a couple of weeks from now, as we slowly wind down, there will be a point by which we will not be able to get back up and running."
"It would have to be soon, but if anyone wanted to come in and save us, we'd give the whole kitchen sink to them on the extremely cheap," Scandizzo said, adding "Otherwise after almost 10 years of this group working together, we're going to have to dissolve."
The reason for their financial crisis is that they couldn't secure a new title to work on even though they found two potential projects but negotiations with the publishers went bust."It would have to be soon, but if anyone wanted to come in and save us, we'd give the whole kitchen sink to them on the extremely cheap," Scandizzo said, adding "Otherwise after almost 10 years of this group working together, we're going to have to dissolve."
Castaway (founded in 2003) has now reduced its staff from 25 to six people and development on whatever they were still working on has been halted. Their only real "achievement" since then has been Yaris, an Xbox Live game but it seems clear they were ready for something much bigger.
Something like Djinn, a 3D hack 'n slash game which was rejected by EA during its development. Check out this Youtube video for an early 2005(!) build of the game:
"After five years of secrecy, I'd like to show the public what we were working so hard to develop," the Castaway executive and creative director wrote. "Djinn is an action-RPG in the spirit of our former work, but with full 3D [graphics], interactive environments, [non-player character] companions that aided the player and told the story as the game progressed. The video is of a fully playable demo from early in 2005 (so it was developed before the current consoles were available)."
Doesn't look that bad for 2005 (that's still more than a year before Titan Quest came out).In other news:
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