What strange, yet appropriate timing. No sooner than the original Pilotwings rears its head on the Wii’s Virtual Console than some new assets surface, rumored to be from the rumored Pilotwings game which Factor 5 was rumored to be working on.
See for yourself, and click to enlarge:
Additional notes from the source post on the NeoGAF:
“Each building is approximately 1000 triangles. The rubble bases at the bottom were created to be interchangable between buildings with the same footprint. I art-directed the concept artist and then modeled and UVed the assets pictured before passing them to a texture artist. Once the texture work was completed, I art teched the assets for use with the game engine. I then placed the buildings using Factor 5’s proprietary level design tool.”
“These are in-progress assets created for a Wii flight action game. The cargo plane was part of the parachute player activity and needed to be a visually interesting space for the player to jump out from.”
Flying buses, trucks, and junks? That’s a bit out there.
To see more of the unused assets and read more about the project, check out its page at Unseen 64. In the meantime, I hope that Nintendo might bring this franchise back already.
