Odyssey Interactive’s transparent prototype process aims to prevent an Omega Strikers repeat
Developer Odyssey Interactive unveiled a new project in development called Byte Breakers, and it's calling on players to decide if it lives or dies.Soliciting feedback is nothing new, and some studios have community groups that help guide a game's development. But Odyssey is intentionally looking to avoid a repeat of its debut title Omega Strikers, which shut down last year just four months after its full launch.Omega taught the studio "the risks of keeping things under wraps for too long," said co-founder Richard Henkel. By being more transparent, it hopes to draw more interest (and by extension, more feedback) to its future work.Henkel and co-founder Dax Andrus further explained the studio has multiple prototypes in the works. By letting players try an extremely early…
Read moreRespawn’s Star Wars Jedi franchise tops 40 million players
According to EA's Laura Miele, the Star Wars Jedi franchise has amassed over 40 million players in its nearly five-year lifetime.Miele revealed the milestone during an investor presentation (spotted byVGC) and said EA's entire run of Star Wars games has topped $5 billion in net bookings.Based on those metrics, she claimed EA has "delivered some of the highest quality and best-selling Star Wars games of all-time."It's unclear how this translates to sales for Respawn's action-adventure franchise. In fact, EA has been rather cagey when discussing the commercial performance of 2023's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which just arrived on last-generation console hardware (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) today.