Post#175 » Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:45 am
About take the bullet from a dev of Red Lemon and Runcraft. I have talk whit him few years ago...
Red lemon have a other unreleased games named Roswel Conspiracy .
I worked on Soldier of Fortune while I worked at Runecraft. They were a studio that specialised in porting games to other platforms, and my team worked on Dreamcast ports. It was so long ago, that I don't remember most of them, but two that stood out were ports of Monopoly and Scrabble. Both were canned fairly early on.
Before Runecraft, I worked at Red Lemon, who were working on Take The Bullet, a game that was supposed to be available on launch day. I helped out on that game several times, working on the engine code.
I also worked briefly on Roswell Conspiracies, which was a PC and Dreamcast game for a TV cartoon. I don't think that game was ever finished.
I think we had very early versions of Monopoly and Scrabble running, but they were barely playable. I'm not sure why they were cancelled. I suspect Hasbro approached Runecraft about porting to Dreamcast. We were asked to take a look and start the port, but at some point either Hasbro or Runecraft decided not to finalise the contract and the game was pulled. It wasn't because of any technical problems, but may have been financial.
I'm not sure how far Roswell was developed as I left Red Lemon while it was still in pre-production.
Take The Bullet went through several iterations. There was a car chase section that was promising, but was pulled. I'm not sure why the game was dropped, but I believe there were issues with the early hardware and then the relationship with Sega became strained, causing delays before eventual cancellation.