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The Future of Submarine Games

In the last six months, the demise ofmultiplay. He took one look at the hefty
sims has been pronounced in abundance.manual and waved it off. He assumed he
Print mags and sim webzines have beenwould need to learn all the material to
telling you sims are being cancelledplay competitive. The blessing and the
left and right Jane's A-10: Cancelled.curse of a good sim is its complexity.
Wolfpack II: Cancelled. Silent Steel II:You want to command a battle fleet or do
MIA. M1Tank Platoon 3: Cancelled.TMA on a Los Angeles class submarine?
Fighting Steel Deluxe: Cancelled. Jane'sYou need to learn skills and study. And
Attack Squadron: MIA. Thunder Overthis restricts the popularity of the
Europe: MIA. The list goes on.sim. Mass market games generally do not
We all know that this is a down cyclecarry the steep learning curve a sim
for sims and we believe there is hopedoes. So while we hard core sim players
that in a couple of years, things willare delighting in the minutia of seven
turn around and sims will be hot stuffdifferent stations and all their
again. Hey, I remember in 1973 when thecontrols, casual gamers are passing up
EPA and OPEC throttled the life out ofthe sim at a 20 to 1 ratio. Sims truly
the muscle car scene. I had a 1970 Cobraare a niche market.
Torino that had 450 hp and ran theNiche market games have limited budgets.
quarter in the high 13s. In less thanThis mean a small number of programmers
three years every car out of Detroit wasand artists must concentrate on the
a smog controlled, gas economizing slug.basics. Don't expect to see everything
They even started making them as ugly asyou want and imagine in a sim. Oh yeah,
they were slow! It was heartbreaking.I'm with you--I wish a subsim could have
But over time, things change. Now youfull motion crews and other fun stuff.
can get a high performance machine thatBut as one producer told me, "We don't
handles and has luxuries like front/rearhave the money to design and integrate
AC. My '99 Riviera has a superchargedthese features into the product. I wish
V-6 that would make my old Torino proud.we could, too."
So, keep the faith. Things will improve,We should be finding out the status of
even if no one knows when. Silent HunterSilent Hunter II soon. Either Mattel
II and Destroyer Command are showingInteractive is going to sign someone to
signs of life. Harpoon 4 is still undercomplete it or it will be canned. I went
development. There are stirrings fromthrough the "we are planning to do this"
the Sonalysts camp.stage with the fabled Jane's Ice Pack
When a new subsim does hit the shore,add-on for 688(I), Crusader Studios'
try to remember, the developers and gameAkula: Red Hunter, Silent Steel 2, and
producers are our friends. They make thethe interoperability between Jane's
kind of games we like because they likeFleet Command and 688(I). I'm not
them too. Why would they labor overpassing judgment here, just stating that
armor thickness tables, ship modelwhen the momentum dies, so does the
physics, and torpedo trajectories for aobjective. For whatever reasons, the
niche market? I know a few developersproduct champions behind those sims were
and they all love the genre.unable to secure the financing to start
Try to keep your criticism balanced.work. To get a better feel for the whole
Should you blast a sim you had troubleprocess, read my friend John Sponauer's
with or didn't enjoy with all theanalysis of the life and death of a sim,
invective and animosity you wouldM1 Tank Platoon 2, from its early
normally reserve for someone who stoledevelopment as an upgrade all the way
your car or used your toothbrush? I wasthrough its last couple of weeks.
told by one producer that high-levelDespite my previous experiences with
executives frequently ask him aboutother sim companies, I am optimistic
hard-core negative postings onthat Carl Norman and Rick Martinez mean
newsgroups and forums. The industry seeswhat they say and SSI will continue to
us as demanding, unappreciative, andraise the banner of the Digital Combat
impossible to satisfy. It's much easierSeries while the Jane's, NovaLogics, and
and more lucrative to crank out DeerMicroproses around them fall like
Hunter and Barbie games and their usersunfortunate tin soldiers. This is not to
rarely flame the game company to asay SH2 is a done deal--that moment will
crisp.come when you hold the box in your hand.
I work with a CPA accountant who likesWe look to the next rumored subsim as
computer games and is pretty good atour best hope for advanced underwater
them. He can play a mean Age of Empireswarfare. All we can do is stay positive,
warrior. I tried to interest him insupportive, and if it's decent, buy four
learning Jane's 688(I) for somecopies when it comes out.



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