Droshalla, a lot of people were sad to see Babylon 5: Into the Fire cancelled. In fact, the original developers were involved in more than one attempt to finish the game, but alas, all attempts failed.
The game was originally announced back in 1997. I have two e-mails from Marc Hudgins, the game's lead designer, that I keep for nostalgia purposes (both e-mails are dated Monday, October 6, 1997):
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Sam,
We're shooting for x-mas '98. As with most games, that may be too optimistic, but we're really going to try.
Marc
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And this one(in response to my question about system requirments for the game):
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It should run fine on a 133 w/16 meg --but if you really want to take advantage of what we are planning on delivering, start thinking about more memory and a 3D accelerator card --it will be worth it (higher polygon ships, cleaner textures, lighting effects, faster frame rates etc).
Marc
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I miss those days.
Many of the former developers still hang out at
FirstOnes.com, and we often discuss the game as it was originally designed.
To fill the void left by ItF's cancellation, many B5 fans started developing MODs for current games. You can see and download many of these MODs at the FirstOnes.com
MOD Site. There are mods for all kinds of games, such as Freespace II, Homeworld, Klingon Academy, Starfleet Command, and more.
But so far, the most promising B5 game is the one that was mentioned above:
Babylon 5: I've Found Her. It's a completely free game being developed by an international team of programmers and artists. The game is being created from scratch, with it's own graphics engine. You can check it out at the official site
here.
There have been some vague rumors about possible official B5 games, but nothing I want to repeat here, as they're just rumors.
Feel free to visit FirstOnes.com and join the forum. The more the merrier! /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
