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[davidcalgary29]

I've read a number of rumours regarding the development of this game. Does anyone know what the status of this title actually was before development was halted?

[Thunderbird]

davidcalgary29 said:

I've read a number of rumours regarding the development of this game. Does anyone know what the status of this title actually was before development was halted?

I've heard it was real and worked on JagVR. I've also heard someone claim it was actually running on PC's and not the Jag itself. I don't know what to believe.

[PeterG]

From what i hear it was in development that far, that you could fly around and shoot some bullets or something around a arena.......It should be something in the lines of Panzer Dragoon on Saturn......
There´s only one screenshot of this game that I know...
I would love to see more or the proto to appear....
Peter

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Peterghiea said:

From what i hear it was in development that far, that you could fly around and shoot some bullets or something around a arena.......It should be something in the lines of Panzer Dragoon on Saturn......
There´s only one screenshot of this game that I know...
I would love to see more or the proto to appear....
Peter

Where can a guy find and view this one screen shot of the game? I for one would love to look at it and see if it's real or a photoshop work. Thanks!

[PeterG]

Uh.now you ask me something......
Wait a second i´ll see if I still have it somewhere here in my Atarifolder......
Peter

[PeterG]

Here you go...
Cyberroach has some of the best infos and a Screenshot which is not too dark....

http://www.cyberroac...html/dactyl.htm

Well this Pic is really bad.....
I´ve seen it somewhere not that dark and you could see a bit more....I´ll take a look
Peter

http://www.atarihq.d...gpre/joust.html

One of the Williams licenses (in addition to Robotron, Defender and MKIII) that Atari was able to purchase, was the classic game of Joust.
It only made sense to Atari to may an upgraded form of the classic.
High Voltage was hired to do the translation and work with Atari's producers to do the classic title justice.
The game's original concept started out as a first person perspective, free flying combat sim where you were placed in an arena.
There of course were platforms (analgous to those in the original game) where eggs would hatch, and riders would await their steeds.
There were several types of Dactyls to ride, and there were more weapons than just landing on your opponent (or getting your lance higher than his). For example, your dactyl would have a breath weapon or some other projectile. The game was progressing quite well, but before long, it had become apparent that the game concept had more than slightly stretched the Jaguar's texturemapped polygon handling ability. As such the game has had to undergo a concept change. Exactly what that change is, and how far removed it is from the original concept has yet to be seen. Time will tell.

[Thunderbird]

It's hard to tell from the screenshot if it's real or not. However, the quotes from the programmer make it seem like they were actually pretty far along in the design of the engine and things. I'd love to see what they were able to do using RGB instead of CRY colors. It sounds interesting.

[PeterG]

Yeah it sounds pretty cool.....
I like Panzer Dragoon on the Jag and something like tis sounds pretty good, but they also said that they couldn´t do the texture Mapping thing.....
Hm, another game which could have been cool I guess....
Bummer there isn´t a proto for this one, like there is one for TRF and some others...
Peter

[Thunderbird]

Peterghiea said:

Yeah it sounds pretty cool.....
I like Panzer Dragoon on the Jag and something like tis sounds pretty good, but they also said that they couldn´t do the texture Mapping thing.....
Hm, another game which could have been cool I guess....
Bummer there isn´t a proto for this one, like there is one for TRF and some others...
Peter

I think that a game like Panzer Dragoon could have been done on the jag, and maybe if they cut out Texturemapping it would have been fast and smooth. It wouldn't have textures, but they could have used some other effects for a distinctive "look" that would have been unique and pretty as well.