Babylon 5 Games Coming? 39
Johjn Callaham writes "Today at Gamecloud we chat with J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of the sc-fi TV show Babylon 5. He hints that a new game based on the show is a real possibility." From the article: "Every year or so, WB makes noises about a B5 game...and they're making them again this year. Whether or not this actually goes anywhere this time, we'll have to see. Certainly the B5 universe is almost tailor-made for a game, especially an immersive, online experience."
B5 Mod for Nexus (Score:3, Informative)
For those of us who missed 1993-1998 (Score:3, Informative)
Wikipedia to the rescue [wikipedia.org].
I've Found Her: Danger and Opportunity (Score:4, Informative)
It's not a mod, as far as I know. In any case, you don't need to install any other game in order to play it.
It's a linear mission-based fighter game (Starfury), similar in structure to X-Wing, Wing Commander or Starlancer.
I enjoyed it.
Re:The sad part... (Score:4, Informative)
If anybody still has the original models, it would actually be quite easy to incorporate them into a game engine. They were made on Amigas using an early version of Lightwave. Not only does Lightwave still exist, so it could open the old files without much trouble, but the file format is extremely well documented. I used
And, really, most of the CGI wasn't that impressive even in the mid 90's. What was cool was that they managed to do it every week for a TV show. It also allowed them to have fighters, while Star Trek relied on large ships. With model shots, it's hard to have many ships on screen. With CGI, it's pretty easy to have a squadron of fighters flying in formation, etc.
Re:There's a B5 game on Freespace 2 engine... (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.hard-light.net/hosted/babylon/ [hard-light.net]
I'm downloading the current version now. It includes the Freespace 2 engine, so you don't have to buy Freespace 2 in order to install and play.
Re:The sad part... (Score:3, Informative)
It's probably pretty easy on modern hardware to render the TV models to LOOK pretty much identical.
Re:There's a B5 game on Freespace 2 engine... (Score:3, Informative)
Downloading the base package is not enough - neither campaigns nor missions are included. Those are downloadable separately from the same site.