JTE
Member
I could really use some money. Right now I'm in a bit of a jam. :(
But if it isn't Sonic, even what little fanbase and development team we have couldn't hold together. If it's a new engine, we don't have any experience in it and wouldn't be able to do nearly as much as we can until much, much later. No matter what, we would basically end up starting all over -- not just the game, but the entire community would be rebooted, and most of the developers would probably be cycled out, and to even get to that point we'd need to get a pretty damn solid base and set of concepts working to begin with, otherwise no one would even know what they're doing and the ideas would just split and conflict with each other all over the place (preventing progress because everyone has a drastically different idea for what direction it should all go).
In other words... SRB2 will always be SRB2, and if we were doing anything else, it wouldn't be the same game, same engine, or same community and developers.
But if it isn't Sonic, even what little fanbase and development team we have couldn't hold together. If it's a new engine, we don't have any experience in it and wouldn't be able to do nearly as much as we can until much, much later. No matter what, we would basically end up starting all over -- not just the game, but the entire community would be rebooted, and most of the developers would probably be cycled out, and to even get to that point we'd need to get a pretty damn solid base and set of concepts working to begin with, otherwise no one would even know what they're doing and the ideas would just split and conflict with each other all over the place (preventing progress because everyone has a drastically different idea for what direction it should all go).
In other words... SRB2 will always be SRB2, and if we were doing anything else, it wouldn't be the same game, same engine, or same community and developers.