[Update 02.10.12] Project Eternity: Known Information

[C2B]

Interview on RPGamer

 

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/eternity/eternityint.html

[C2B]

New Tim Cain Interview

 

http://www.gamrreview.com/article/89290/interview-we-talk-kickstarter-and-project-eternity-with-tim-cain/

[hideo kuze]

Quick interview with Adam Brennecke

 

http://penny-arcade....t-eternity-and-

 

(already posted on the forums here, but also posting it here for completeness sake)

Edited September 27, 2012 by hideo kuze

[funcroc]

Gamasutra interview with Sawyer

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/177011/Project_Eternity_What_it_really_means_to_make_the_game_you_want_to_make.php

[Crooked Bee]

New interview with Adam Brennecke at the RPG Codex:

 

http://www.rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=8480

[C2B]

New interview with Adam Brennecke at the RPG Codex:

 

http://www.rpgcodex....ent.php?id=8480

 

Great Interview as always

[Tale]

These guys are going on tour!

[C2B]

Another Interview with Feargus

 

http://www.theplaguedgamer.com/2012/09/obsidian-entertainment-co-founder.html

[WorstUsernameEver]

Inon Zur didn't work on Torment! Damn you Feargus!

[C2B]

Inon Zur didn't work on Torment! Damn you Feargus!

 

OR DID HE?

 

*spooky music*

[Tale]

I have added 4 quotes from Josh Sawyer regarding spell casting and level scaling.

[Tigranes]

Thanks Tale. I've been too busy for this the last week. Hope to catch up on the devposts here and elsewhere.

[Pop]

From SA

 

It's very unlikely that priests will be strongly dominant healers in PE.

[Bill Gates' Son]

Don't mean to nitpick mhere, but considering this is an American site, shouldn't the date be in the American format instead of the European format?

[anek]

Art Style

It will be in the same style as the Infinity Engine games, though the technology used will be different. For reference, IE games built the backgrounds in 3D then exported them into 2D form, not quite 'hand-drawn' but certainly not full 3D; this was supplemented by typical 2D sprites for moving objects.

 

This could be clarified some more. It does explain the graphics of the Infinity Engine games pretty well, but the statement that PE will use "the same style [...] though the technology used will be different" leaves a lot open to interpretation - e.g. readers could think PE might use live rendered 3D terrain as the technology for backgrounds, but in a way that will look similar to the IE games in that it is from an isometric perspective and similar visual "style".

 

Which is of course not the case, as Obsidian has explained in the meantime, e.g. in this statement by Josh:

"

what we're doing is using pre-rendered 2D backgrounds with probably some 2D flipbook animations in the background,

but also 3D characters and 3D animated environments and props when necessary, and trying to blend the lighting and shadows together.

"

(from

http://www.gamasutra...ant_to_make.php

)

 

At the very least, the phrase "pre-rendered backgrounds" should be added to the aforementioned part of this FAQ - maybe even the whole quote (it's pretty concise).

Edited October 6, 2012 by anek

[Rahelron]

'Project Eternity' Facebook-page: https://www.facebook...463757270322911

 

The world has an uncanny resemblance to Western Europe.... just without the British Isles. ^^

 

This map is higly inspired by the Dalelands from the D&D Forgotten Realms Setting.

 

The pearlwood gulf resembles the Mistledale territories' shape.

The ruins of Eir Glafanth are the Ruins of Mith Drannor

The Court of Sowing ashes is the Elven Court

And so on.

 

Even the graphic style resembles the style of the Forgotten Realms map for 3.0 edition.

[Tigranes]

Given my lamentable performance at keeping this up to date, I highly recommend an info-dump that is more comprehensive than, well, anything:

 

http://www.sorcerers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=58186

 

I will eventually update this thread, of course, but plan to keep it much more to basic details and frequently asked questions. This thread has literally everything.

[Loranc]

http://www.neogaf.co...ad.php?t=491435

 

http://gamebanshee.c...roject-eternity

 

http://www.rpgcodex....ent.php?id=8456

 

http://www.sorcerers...ead.php?t=58007

 

That's all the known backers from various websites that I found Tigranes

[Zu Long]

http://www.neogaf.co...ad.php?t=491435

 

http://gamebanshee.c...roject-eternity

 

http://www.<span sty...ent.php?id=8456

 

http://www.sorcerers...ead.php?t=58007

 

That's all the known backers from various websites that I found Tigranes

 

 

Man. Wish I'd thought of that.

[funcroc]

From Jabby's retweet

 

Watch @adam_brennecke on #YFEtv 11/15 at 6p/9e talk about #ProjectEternity's @kickstarter success http://yfe.me/abonyfetv

 

About Adam Brennecke:

 

Adam Brennecke is currently the Executive Producer on Project Eternity. His responsibilities include running and developing the successful Kickstarter Campaign for Project Eternity, and overseeing the development of the game.

 

Project Eternity (working title) is an upcoming fantasy role-playing video game from Obsidian Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux, funded through Kickstarter. Involved in production are Chris Avellone, Tim Cain, Adam Brennecke and Josh Sawyer. It is notable for its crowd funding campaign, which raised $4,163,208, more money than any other game, and the third largest Kickstarter (and crowdfunded) project to date.

 

After graduating from honors from DigiPen Institute of Technology, Adam joined Obsidian in the first year of the company in 2004. As a member of Obsidian’s gameplay programming team for more than eight years, he has worked on all of Obsidian’s games including Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II and Fallout: New Vegas. Focusing on animation technology, he was a key engineer in the development of Obsidian’s Onyx Engine that powers Dungeon Siege III, and more recently Adam was Project Director of the Dungeon Siege III DLC project – Treasures of the Sun.

 

Adam grew up in sunny Orange County California. And he likes soccer and hockey. And cats.

[funcroc]

https://twitter.com/...074567002644480

 

So on Friday evening we almost got our first game Character made from scratch into the game

[funcroc]

re-reading story notes from Josh, George, and friends. #projecteternity is going to have such a cool story, I can tell already.

 

[Gfted1]

From SA

 

It's very unlikely that priests will be strongly dominant healers in PE.

 

Wait, now theres healing?

[Stun]

Indeed, that comment sounds like Priests will be healers, just not "strongly dominant healers" (like they were in the IE games.)

 

Of course, the pedant in me wonders what they mean by "healer". Priests in PE could just be limited to being able to "heal" specific afflictions, like diseases, or poison, or level drain, or blindness/deafness etc. Instead of actually being able to directly bring your hitpoints back up.

Edited December 16, 2012 by Stun

[WorstUsernameEver]

Indeed, that comment sounds like Priests will be healers, just not "strongly dominant healers" (like they were in the IE games.)

 

Of course, the pedant in me wonders what they mean by "healer". Priests in PE could just be limited to being able to "heal" specific afflictions, like diseases, or poison, or level drain, or blindness/deafness etc. Instead of actually being able to directly bring your hitpoints back up.

 

If I recall correctly the plan is just to have stamina-healing abilities, but to severly limit the ways health can be recouped. To be honest, I'm not really sure how the whole balance is suppose to work until I'll see it implemented. Hopefully they'll have an update concerning that eventually and showing/mentioning some examples, because I'm afraid beta will be way too late to give feedback on the system.