Anthem Twitter Thread

Jay Watamaniuk ‏@jaywatamaniuk
2017. A busy, busy year coming up.

Although it's a new IP, I have to wonder if maybe they took some of the elements of the cancelled Shadow Realms and worked them into this new game?

They ran a sort of ARG campaign (I think it was for Shadow Realms?) that focused on a website for a university for people from Earth to study interdimensional magic and ancient civilisations and stuff. It was really well-written!

I remember being really disappointed that it was multiplayer focused. I still think that's a pretty cool premise.

Jay Watamaniuk ‏@jaywatamaniuk
Back to work tomorrow. Here we go.

I don't know, now that Bioware has expanded, they might be a "game a year" company instead of a "game every three years" company!!!!! That would be great.....games from the different locations.


Ok, NOW I'm dreaming and far reaching.

They've done it before. Heck, if you count major expansions AND Austin, they're releasing something every year!

Inquisition to Andromeda was their biggest gap between major releases. But I think we can expect good things to come out of this.

Or at least I hope so.

Seems possible, but I find it likely that EA will push it into early 2018 to lessen the gap before the next Bioware release, DA4, likely hitting us in 2019-2020.

Thanks for the info, that was really interesting. I've been looking around for the websites in the hopes they might still be up, but sadly they're not. IGN still has some tidbits, though. The concept art and teasers looked good, too.


I think that was the reason it was cancelled. Multiplayer games in general not being well-received at the time.

According to what I've read from the devs (Gaider, if I recall correctly), most of that time was actually spent converting to Frostbite. Let's not forget after all, that the DAI dev team had to basically create entirely new modules to actually start producing RPG's on that engine. That part is done, and further refined with work on MEA and Secret IP.

I also assume there's also a plethora of quality assets created, and the whole underlying structure of the game is basically there. I mean, even if we assume that there'd be new things in the game, I don't think DA4 would be fundamentally different from Inquisition, gameplay-, graphic-wise and likely combat-wise.

Jay Watamaniuk ‏@jaywatamaniuk
Get thee behind me.



David Gaider ‏@davidgaider
Finally working through your email, huh?

Jay Watamaniuk ‏@jaywatamaniuk

With MEA being close to done I imagine some developers have already moved on to other projects. It seems the bulk of the studios focuses on whatever two games are closest to release, that's why the new IP is still apparently making a lot of progress. Optimistically, they could start full production this month as the company's internal focus shifts to DA and the new IP, though it would probably only really start to ramp up after MEA and whatever DLC they inevitably have planned for later in 2017 is out the door.

It would be easier to speculate if we had a better idea of new IP's timetable.