{"id":1167,"date":"2009-02-02T12:08:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T16:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/02\/ensemble-wake-continues\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T12:08:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T16:08:40","slug":"ensemble-wake-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/02\/ensemble-wake-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensemble Wake Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Gamasutra, N. Evan Van Zelfden has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/3919\/ensemble_studios_the_last_tour.php\">up an account of his tour of Ensemble Studios<\/a> as the place packs up. I&#8217;ve never been to Ensemble, so I can&#8217;t look at the pictures and say &#8220;Hey, that was where X&#8221;, like I can with, say, Firaxis. Still, there is something about a business closing shop that really gets to me, even if many of the principals here already have plans &#8211; including working with Microsoft on new content for <em>Halo Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Van Zelfden writes about some of the uncompleted games:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They included: a fantasy-adventure RPG called Sorcerer; Nova, a &#8220;Diablo in space&#8221; game; a pirate-themed take on Diablo; a game called Wrench; a Ratchet &#038; Clank-style platformer called Bam. <\/p>\n<p>Most detailed was a game called Agent, with an art style and universe inspired by Pixar&#8217;s The Incredibles, and using gameplay elements from Tomb Raider. As the concept art shows, the game was instantly iconic and unique.<\/p>\n<p>Another title was Graeme Devine&#8217;s Phoenix &#8212; an RTS game featuring earthlings versus Martians in a War of the Worlds-style conflict. The game changed over time, and would eventually become something different entirely: Halo Wars. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good luck, guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Gamasutra, N. Evan Van Zelfden has written up an account of his tour of Ensemble Studios as the place packs up. I&#8217;ve never been to Ensemble, so I can&#8217;t look at the pictures and say &#8220;Hey, that was where X&#8221;, like I can with, say, Firaxis. Still, there is something about a business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[59,78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-iP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}