Over recent months I started digging back into the code, systems, assets and original concepts. What began as revisiting old work around the 25th Anniversary turned into a decision to continue expanding ORION: Prelude.

We’ve been thinking about destruction for a long time. Since 2010, to be exact. I thought it’d be fun to revisit the topic and explore new workflows and techniques. This update is focused on (real-time) cinematic and vista destruction for POI (points of interest) objects which are typically larger-scaled…

The compiled results from the Orion 25th Anniversary Fan Survey with some of our own data charts and summaries included below.

One of the most interesting takeaways so far has been the support for Playable Dinosaurs from ORION: Prelude. This was a late addition and never the main focus of that game, so I’ll admit it was a bit surprising to see how strongly it resonated…