Lambda

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After reading the post yesterday about Amiga games that were never released I checked out the site for Lambda:

http://www.illuvatar.demon.co.uk/Lambda.html

It hasn't been updated in five years, which is a crying shame considering that this game has obvious potential.  

I downloaded the demo last night and had a quick look at it.  Although there's nothing to do by fly in circles and fire weapons, the 3d objects all move at a respectible pace on my 40Mhz '040/Voodoo 3 system, even at 640 x 480.

It would be a shame if this concept wasn't developed further by an enterprising third party.  Anyone up for the task?

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I think even the old 68k+AGA version was so fast that it would have been worthwhile to release it as a "screensaver" if nothing else.

Too bad that he chose to go for the DirectX3D ... not very portable any more I'm afraid...

Has Lambda been released on the PC yet?

Is there any possibility of anyone continuting development on the Amiga side as a third party?

OS4 desperately needs a killer app that makes headlines and if developed properly Lambda could be it.

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"Frontier type game..", "Kick ass graphics engine..."

This is exactly what I've been dreaming of on the Amiga for many years now.  

The gaming world is an overflowing plethora of first person shooters - some of them pretty good like Battlefield 1942, Call of Duty etc.  What the (new) Amiga platform desperately needs is something like 2260 to make it stand out from the crowd.  A Quake III clone simply isn't enough, no matter how pretty it might be.

I believe there's a market for a game which offers a universe to explore, open ended gameplay, eye candy and infinite possibilities to interact with the non-linear storylines, characters etc - a la Frontier but with a better graphics engine / gameplay / development / detail etc.  If such a piece of software supported on line gaming where real players could interact then it would be a winner.