Deacan has firmed up the details for a printing of his second German Privateer 2-themed fan novel, Das Erwachen Stille. The book price is approximately 16 Euros, which is the break-even point for printing costs. Printing should begin in about a week, so the best time to order is within the next couple days. There's no need to hold off if you're missing the first title in the series either, since Deacan is trying hard to reprint Das Erwachen Sturm by this spring. You can find the first novel online (in German) at Crius.net here. A preview of the second novel has also been posted here.
If you like to get a printed copy of the 2nd novel from the "Erwachen" series of books, here is the way to do so:
Send an email to stb@sidiblume.de
Please include the following info:
- your (real) name
- a fully functional mailling address (!)
- ..including your town/land, state/province and country
The release is set for late January. We just want to see how many copies we should order overall. If you want more than one copy, please let us know! We can not yet tell you how much the print will cost. Our goal is anything under 16 € per book...
Stay tuned. More soon!
The promised 1994 'Valentines Day' issue of Point of Origin doesn't have much romance... but it does profile one past and one future Wing Commander developer. All in all, though, 1994 seems pretty quiet - with all the talk about Bioforge and Super Wing Commander, there's little to suggest the sheer size of currently-simmering Wing Commander III.
A very special thanks to Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum for making this resource available and to Electronic Arts for sending them to him in the first place!
- Fiscal Fitness details the rush to ship games before the end of the Fiscal Year: "Righteous Fire, originally scheduled to ship this week, will have to hold until next Wednesday (2/23) due to a translation snag in the UK... Super Wing for 3DO will clock in as ORIGIN's biggest game ever. In fact, it's spilling over about 100 MB from the CD. The team plans to make some speech modifications in order to cram the entire product into the allotted 550 MB. Tick, tick, tick."
- Off-the-clock: Adam Foshko talks about the man who would someday run the franchise: "He's putting together the live actor-action for Wing Commander III and he's got a lot of great ideas on how to make ORIGIN the new interactive Mecca that it ought to be."
- EOM: Bruce Lemons profiles a Wing Commander veteran: "Bruce's expertise in 3DStudio can be found in m any ORIGIN products: Wing Commander II, Ultima VII and Strike Commander. And a lot of the graphics you'll be seeing in Super Wing 3DO and BioForge are the result of Bruce's hard work."
- Press Here has the usual assortment of good news from the media:
The editors of PC Entertainment got together and selected their top games of 1993 and Ultima Underworld II was among four ORIGIN games that made the honor role.
...William R. Trotter put Wing commander Academy among the best of 1993. 'One intense battle after another,' he said. 'Every afternoon I take a 'Wing Commander break' instead of a coffee break--it's cleansing, cathartic, and better for your heart...'
Do you think he liked it?
... And of course, what's a 'best of' list without Privateer? Once again Bernie Yee has the lowdown. 'General MIDI and Wave-Blaster support make for a state-of-the-art soudntrack, and the graphics are up to Origin's high standards.'
Speaking of Privateer, Compute magazine gave the award winning game a big thumbs up in its February issue. David Gerding proclaimed, 'On a fast 486 system, the animation can look downright gorgeous. A real accomplishment. ORIGIN has turned out a real winner.'
... In Japan, they like what they see of Wing Commander Academy. In Popcom, a Japanese gaming magazine, Toren Smith writes, 'Wing Commander Academy is like a dream come true for hardcore WC addicts.'
Point of Origin
Vol. IV, No. 53 - February 15, 1994
Contents
Fiscal Fitness
Press Here
NEWS.TXT
Off-the-clock: Adam Foshko
Ticker
EOM: Bruce Lemons
New Hires
Misc.
3DO to sharply cut Multiplayer prices in 94
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