PC is the primary platform, possible other platforms will be announced later. As for the actual system requirements, those still depend on a lot of things, I'll announce an estimate when we make some more decisions about the technical specs.

PC is the first platform (both Windows and Linux since we can do our own porting), but console versions for PS3 and Xbox360 are also possible if everything goes as planned.

True enough, it's a bit pricey. :/

Thankfully Unity Free should be fine for community members creating content for the game.

That's good, then you already have a headstart. :D

Unity Pro is 1500$ / 1100€ per license.
( https://store.unity3d.com/shop/ )

We started out using a different engine, but soon switched to Unity, which serves our needs better. (http://unity3d.com/)

Inhouse we're naturally using Unity Pro, but we've got plans on letting people help us using Unity Free - I'll be posting a longer status update on that in the future.

Thanks for the offer! We've got plans to let community members help us with scripting too, your skills would no doubt be useful. :)

The problems that have to be circumvented are the usual - we're using an engine for which we have a limited amount of developer licenses, so we can't give out all of the tools we use in-house.

We've got ideas though, if things go well they'll be published within two months.

Henrik: It would and we'd gladly offer you the chance, but it still remains to be seen what kind of modding tools we have time and resources to implement.

We're already working on some tools and resources that will be provided to help the community participate (they will be announced during this summer), but beyond that it's still on the drawing table.

Glad to know there is still interest in the tools though. :)

I would say OS is unlikely. Modding tools remain a possibility, but whether or not we have time to implement those without other areas of the game suffering must be considered carefully.

We're mixing black humour with pretty heavy themes so it's hard to give easy guidelines for what goes. In order to avoid extra work you could post your ideas first as concepts and then expand them when you get feedback for the concepts?

As for death camp prisoners, we won't have any in the base during game for in-game reasons - the base has already been completed for over two years, over half of the personnel left to moon in 1945 and I doubt the Nazis would want to keep any extra mouths to feed any longer than necessary, especially if they'd be paranoid about the prisoners endangering the secrecy of the base.

Nonetheless, we could make straightforward references to the Nazis having used prisoners to build the base a couple of years earlier (and also the "disappearance" of those prisoners after they had outlived their usefulness) - it would probably be a pretty public secret in the base, and there'd be a couple of officers still in the base who would have been directly responsible for atrocities during that time. The player could even find some hidden diaries/writings of those prisoners and hear about them from lower class base personnel (civilians/mechanics/...) who might still be traumatized from not having been able to save them. If the players pieced the story together, they'd also have the chance to punish the people responsible.

How would this sound to you?

Risto: That's pretty much what I had in mind, I'll add that to the FAQ too. :)

Great, this one goes in too. :)

Game of this scale will certainly require a whole lot of playtesting to weed out the bugs, but the details of the testing phase are not yet set. If possible, I'd very much like to give the community priority participate in the testing, but we're still quite far from that phase at the moment so I can't say much for certain.

Hi everyone!

I'm back from the vacation also :) Let's just admit it, it was a boring vacation, all those realatives etc.... argh :P

But for your question. We will focus on online channels in distribution, but ofc there will be also those "hard copies". Distribution will be worldwide, so don't worry, you will get a change to get your own copy anyways :)

For the release date I can only comment that it is early 2011 at this point.

P.S.
I'll try to answer questions in here FAQ as much as possible. Generally i don't have the time required to check all the tasks :) So feel free to ask anything in here, I'll check this section time to time :)

Best

CEO

Noes... :/

I though one of them might have made it since it's still visible in my sent messages -folder. Just re-sent it to you, hope it gets there this time.

Yes, that's a good question to add!

(Hope you got my reply to that PM back before the holidays, by the way? I double-sent it at first by mistake then deleted one of them.)

Anyway, quoting myself from elsewhere to have this answered here too:
I don't know about distribution channels and/or locations yet. Naturally we'll try to get it distributed as widely as possible - some sort of online distribution option would be nice since that would make it very widely available. A lot still depends on third parties, however.

Updated the FAQ a bit, added some of these already. :)

Added to my to-be-answered-later -list, thanks for the suggestions!

Kris: Excellent question!

Carl is pretty close, we'll have around 200 NPC:s in the base that you can interact with somehow (including goons), though we'll try to fake a slightly bigger base population.

The American scouting party will be just a handful - the crew of one scouting plane (I think the PBM-5 -type planes they used in Highjump had 7-9 crew members) and even out of them some would have died in the crash. Separated from the other survivors and uncertain of their fate, the player character will be pretty much on his own in the beginning.

Great, added this to my FAQ template as well! I'll draft a longer answer to it later, but for now it looks like this:

What about replayability?
The character creation allows three main character types (stealth, combat and social skills oriented) and while the surroundings for each are roughly the same, the game experience of each will be very different. Each character type also has several possible story outcomes depending on player actions.