Hi all,
It's good to see there's still so many people following what we're doing. I didn't expect you to react so strongly to the little tid-bit that was shown in the show, so maybe some clarification about what happened can help.
In Belgium, there's a debate going on about the government helping out game developers. Being one of the larger studios in Belgium, we were given the opportunity to give our thoughts on the matter. To be fair, we didn't expect so much game footage to be used on TV (it was recorded in the afternoon,broadcast in the evening and we only knew about it in the morning, so it took us all a bit by surprise).
We allowed the camera crew to take some development footage to underline to our local politicians that there are studios, in Belgium, who are seriously busy with games. Our goal is to have them do something about the unfair competition caused by other governments granting large subsidies in neighbouring countries. That's all there is to it.
It definitely wasn't the intention to release information about the game, for that it's still too soon. Not that I wouldn't want to talk about it, but there'll be plenty of opportunity to do so in the not so distant future.
There's a variety of reasons on why it would be counter-productive for the success and quality of our game to announce things prematurely, and I hope you can understand that. Some of these were already mentioned in this thread and are very valid.
But, we are fully in production, working towards a target, and if all goes well, it shouldn't take that long (heard that before ? ) before we can finally share with you the details of this thing we're trying to make.
The shots you saw were by the way work in progress, just in case you were wondering.
Lar