New Scribes posted

[jimmcq]

A new edition of Scribes (http://www.rareware.com/extras/scribes/9may08/index.html) has been posted on Rare's website. Here's an interesting tidbit:

I wanted to know if there was going to be a VP2 or maybe you can just give us a clue.

I can honestly say that there is not a game called Viva Piñata 2 in production. Is that a good enough clue?

and another:

"The Viva Piñata team is working on a new title that we hope to be able to tell you about soon, and should be in the shops before the end of the year (it's not Banjo)" and I wondered how soon is soon?! Is this mystery project going to be revealed before E3?

An official VP team quote: "Revealed before E3? Yes, yes it will." Or will it? I suppose it has to be, they wouldn't lie just for the sake of it. Or would they?

Various other quotes throughout seem to equally tease and deny hints of a future VP game, so you'll have to read and interpret it all yourself.

[BIGsheep]

There's a lot to read, too. I always like it when people like you, Jim, pick out the highlights :)

[geo12301]

That is so cool, the first quote is from me!
Whole thing that I wrote.


Dear Scribes,
Well, first of all I would like to thank you for using up some of your time to answer our questions, even though I know that it is probably not just one person answering all these questions. Am I right? Eh? Well hopefully you have time to answer my questions... Thanks... Oh wait I forgot about my questions. Here they are.
1) I wanted to know who came up with the whole idea of the WildCards for Viva Piñata? I have to say that that is one of the best ideas I have seen for any game, this made me keep playing the game longer than I would usually play any other game. This made the game have a true challenge to try to "catch 'em all". I just hope next time, if there is one, and hopefully there is one [VP2], that you guys will add more Piñatas with more unique traits.
NOTE: I love the WC Quackberry, I hatched one myself... after like a million tries.
2) I wanted to know if there was going to be a VP2 or maybe you can just give us a clue. :D
Geolion




It's just me answering the questions. Well, if you want to get technical, it's often me harassing people on the game teams to answer quite a lot of the questions while I scrawl some random introductory rubbish. Is it that obvious? Tell you what, let's not get technical next time, it's depressing.
Justin from the team (there you go) says: "1. Game design guru Gregg Mayles was the brains behind that little gem. Why doesn't anyone like the things I was responsible for?
"2. I can honestly say that there is not a game called Viva Piñata 2 in production. Is that a good enough clue?"
Look at him with his provocation. Always pushing it, Cook. If I get accused of 'leaking' information in Scribes again there's going to be trouble.