Some of you out there feel that the gameSadness won't be coming out, ever. As Leigh Alexander said, "Sadness is SO vaporware." Like for sure! But she also thought Leon Kennedy was gay, which we all know is nonsense. So I still have high hopes, as do the developers Nibris.

Cubed3 just had an interview with Nibris. Among the topics of discussion was Double Bloob which comes out Q4 2007 with co-operative multiplayer and Raid Over the River which comes out Q1 2008 with button and microphone control. The microphone contorl for the game is pretty sweet but that is not what this post is about. We are here to talk about what happens at the end of the interview, let me show you...




C3: How is the highly anticipated Wii game ‘Sadness’ progressing? Do you have an idea of when it will finally be released?

Nibris: When we are sure that Sadness is as good as we want it to be. This means that the game will be released no earlier than Q4 2008, and maybe even in sometime in 2009. This game will be a completely new thing in Game Industry.

AR: Is the game going to be making use of the WiiConnect24 feature of Wii for anything?

Nibris: No.

AR: How are you finding Wii development so far? Are there any things you wish the hardware could do that it currently cannot due to limitations?

Nibris: There are, of course, some limits in developing, but any other platform would not give us the opportunity to create Sadness the way we want. As for development costs, I don’t talk about them, although in Sadness’ case they are really big.

AR: Is there anything new you can tell us about the game?

Nibris: You will have to wait until E4All, but you will be given a sign soon (perhaps at the Games Convention in Leipzig) *smiles*

AR: Will Sadness be a stand-alone game or will you be aiming to make this into a series of games in the future?

Nibris: We are making this game as a stand-alone product because ‘nothing happens twice’. However, we are only the developer, so the last word will likely be with the publisher.

AR: Would you ever consider creating a version for the DS at some point?

Nibris: No. This game can be done only for Nintendo Wii.

AR: So, in summary, what is Nibris working on right now?

Nibris: At this time we are working on Double Bloob (DS), ROTR (DS) and Sadness (Wii), each of which are already in progress. But that is not all, as you already know. We are also working on some new projects that will start actual development once these three games have reach the completion stages. As mentioned earlier, we are not interested in bringing Sadness to the Nintendo DS, but are working on another horror game that will be dedicated specifically to the Nintendo DS - "The Children of the Night" (as reported on here: http://www.cubed3.com/news/8310/). No dates can be confirmed yet for its release, but it will start development before Bloob Karts and details will be coming in the next couple of months.




Intersting stuff. The release date isn't exactly friendly and I could see how it encourages you to think vapor. There isn't any actual gameplay footage on the game. Well if it isn't coming out for a year, it is ok that there is no footage. We don't see every game's footage, a year into it, do we? Plus how many Too Human videos and playable builds have seen in its life cycle? PSOne was playable, N64 was at least shown, GameCube was at least a video, Xbox was a video, and 360 had a sucktacular playable demo and it still isn't close to coming out.

All I say is don't count this one out. I won't!

[Via Cubed3]