Bungie's own Matt Soell was kind enough to exchange a few words with Rampancy recently about the cancellation of the mysterious Project Phoenix.
Rampancy: How far in the development process did Phoenix get?
Matt: This is a tough question to answer. As with the early stages of Halo's development, we investigated and discarded a lot of ideas, which took a long time. We were still a long way from beta.
Rampancy:Was Phoenix its own engine, or based on Halo?
Bungie.net's got an interview with the redoubtable Mat Noguchi, Bungie tools programmer and behind-the-scenes guy. It sheds all sorts of light on things that should be of interest to any fan; check it out.
Matt Soell at Bungie.net has posted the second part of their article about the making of the Halo 2 Trailer. In this installment features Marty O'Donnell and Jay Weinland talking about the audio aspects of the trailer.
IMG has a mention of Mac's upcoming Halo port, in an interview twixt Tuncer Deniz and Westlake's Glenda Adams. Not much, but its does clarify a few things.
Link snarfed from HBO.
A site called XboxGamers recently advertised that it was looking for questions to submit to the Halo 2 development team for an upcoming exclusive interview . As it turns out, this was more a result of an overly charitable response to a bit of spam in Matt Soell's mailbox. Get the lowdown in his HBO post on the subject.
Matt Soell dropped into the HBO forum to address the recent not on the board comment from Chris DiCesar at Microsoft. In short, DiCesar was just trying to be as conservative as possible, and as a result, understated what's being done on Halo.
Matt reiterates:
Chris Barylick at Macgamer managed to nab an interview with Bungie's Matt Soell at E3, and covered a rather wide range of topics. Thanks again to Louis Wu at HBO.
On Bungie doing another Myth or Oni game: