Whatever happened to...Project Jefferson?

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I notced that news on this promising looking game has dried up somewhat. Is it dead and buried, because no Jefferson forum highlights appear as news headline dooberies on the Sorcerers front page any more, and I can't seem to find any links to the website that had been set up.
It seems a shame, because It looked really good, from I'd heard of it. Sigh.

 

That's one hell of a name. Can we call you DTO?

 

Yeah dude. Too many syllables. Ouch.

Last I heard, it was on hold because of liscensing reasons. Black Isle didn't secure the Baldur's Gate license in time (PS2 did for BGark Alliance 2), as it was supposed to have become Baldur's Gate 3. Just what I heard here, though. I'm sure we'll hear about it here if there's any new developments. Gopher & co usually stay on top of such things.

 

Okay, I'm an idiot but what is this Project Jefferson? I've only heard the name once before..

 

Read my post dude.

"Top Secret" project Black Isle Studios has apparantly been working on for a while. About a year I think. Another D&D game, rumored to be Baldur's Gate 3. The news staff here at SP has been posting forum highlights on the front page for at least the last 4 months or so.

Why Jefferson? Apparantly thay've also been working on Fallout 3, which up to now has been called "Van Buren." (these are past US presidents, by the way, in case "the room next to sanity" isn't near here )

 

Nah, the neighbors to Sanity is extremely loud. So every bit of good news seem to go through my nose..

Anyway, is there no URLs or somesuch?

Edit: Stumbling around after info about Jefferson I found this:

I thought we already went over this in another thread? Oh well. Jefferson is on hold (that point was made a long time ago); we are working on Van Buren. Neither of these games were officially announced, nor do we intend to announce it until we believe it's ready to be announced (we want to build a hype machine only if we really have cool things to show and support that hype machine). That's about it. We're not actively trying to *beep* anyone off or hide behind a conspiracy. When we have something we're proud to show and hype (read - announce), we will. We are working and are putting together design docs, game mechanics stuff (technical term), etc. This is what we do at the beginning of a big project. Sorry we can't be more specific, but with the rules discussions that Josh and Briarus (sic) are throwing around, you can pretty much guess what we're working on - at least I hope you can. But we cannot officially announce anything at this moment. Besides, wouldn't you rather we announce the game when it is passed the pre- alpha stage and not get burned out on the hype if we announce
the game a year or two in advance?

[ June 10, 2003, 02:01: Message edited by: Trillex Le'for ]

 

Thanks. I hope it's not slow to appear again, because Neverwinter Nights and I just don't get on, and I have high hopes of P;J being more than another half hearted campaign and development kit. I also like the sound of every area having it's own artwork, because another of my gripes with NWN is that evrrywhere looks the same. It may be 3D, but boring old 2D Baldur's Gate had character.
And feel free to call DTO. The names a very weak pun that should be got by Planescape Torment and Doctor Who fans.

 

Heh, if they are indeed Baldur's Gate 3 and Fallout 3, I could care less which comes first! Betweens these two series I've probably wasted more time of my life than is healthy.


For BG3 though, I'm assuming that Bioware wouldn't be included? Don't know how good of a game it would be without them, but then again I hated NWN.