777 Studios

Is this wild speculation or a tease... pics or GTFO

Pics/Video or it's not happening lol! That would be awesome though, I really hope this see's the light of day.

Sorry folks, I have to politely deny this speculation.

Aaaarrrgh.

Got anything else for us, then?

That´s too bad...
I´m always hoping for you guys finding a publisher to found your project.
I´m sure it will be a great addition to the flight sim world.

Well we can still speculate on other publishers since he said "deny THIS speculation"! Ubisoft with an always online connection required and monthly subscription fee?

Well, I think it's time to reveal what's happening regarding publishers. We've been contacted by nearly all known publishers around, some of them quite big... But they're only interested in knowing if we have a complete product in hands so they can publish it through their methods.

The fact is that if we finish the product by ourselves, without the financial help of a publisher, in this current era of rising digital distribution platforms and self-publishing methods, we would probably drop it on Steam or similar as an independent release (I know the service very well, I have a friend selling two game products through it right now and he is happy with the service so far).

But without financial help this is nearly unachievable, for example, at the moment our (2) programmers are involved in serious "crunch time" periods in the respective studios where they work full-time in the games industry, so JT is nearly stalled at this point (again). the Financial help is needed so a counterproposal is made for them to leave those jobs and be full-time in JT. And after this, there is the issue of the licensing costs of real aircraft brands such as "Harrier" (Boeing Corporation in the US own the rights) and this costs serious money as well.

This sum ups very well and briefly what happens concerning publishers, but there are always a glint of hope and light at the end of the tunnel if we carry on feeding the dream.

Dante, thanks very much for the disclosure. Definitely a real chicken-and-egg problem, if the chicken were a jet fighter!

Are there perhaps government/cultural grants that can be applied for in the U.K./Argentina? I know it's a stretch, I just heard that 1C has tried something similar in Russia.

Certainly the time is ripe to invest in high fidelity flight simulators (compared to, say, 10 years ago), but try convincing publishers of that in the age of X-box and GTA. >:(

I've been watching your progress since 2005. Haven't given up hope of someday having this on my box!