Turning Point Fans Unite – News From the Trenches

You’ve seen the official site for Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.  Looks awesome, doesn’t it?

Well, this is a not quite as official official site for Turning Point, done by some of us here on the team at SPARK.  Not quite as sexy.  Just a pretty simple Blog for now — unless you syndicate it like the Codemasters guys did and put it into a cool template. (Nice job, Adam!)  But what you’ll see here are a lot of our thoughts as we hit D-Day on finishing one of the biggest games all of us have worked on.  Pure, (mostly) unfiltered commentary on what it’s like in the trenches as we bring our world — our game — to life.

Dean Martinetti — Turning Point: Fall of Liberty’s producer — is going to be the main voice here with the help of some special guests on the team.  For those of you who have posted with Dean on the Gamespot forums, or have seen him cut interviews for IGN, you know he’s outspoken and loves to write you back.  Which brings us to a question at least one of you is asking right now:

Why are we doing this?
Because We Want To.  Well, part it is we want to see what Dean is going to write because he can be hilarious when properly Red Bulled.  But we also want to give you a chance to talk to us and to have the most direct way possible to keep tabs on our game.  We have no idea what kind of traffic this site’s going to get.  But (earmuffs to Mac, our PR guy) not everything we do is for the sake of page views.  Sometimes we do things Because We Want To.

So. . . Yeah, of course subscribe to the RSS feeds, post how much you love Turning Point in your favorite forum, fight your local oppressors, call your congressman, and obviously buy the game when it hits stores in January. But most of all, stay in touch.  You are our Turning Point and a bright and shining star.

More to come,
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