Origins of Nanjing/Nice Code's Titanic?

[taizou]

a lot has been said about Hummer's Titenic lately but what of the other Titanic game? not the one by Union Bond. D: the other other one.

SpaceNinja did a Lets Play of it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKrad_e_i1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlxIsIRf_qU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBaBDRGZT68

it being on my Overmax 151 in 1 as "Sunken Ship" got me wondering about it - it was released on cart by Nanjing in 2005 but the music sounds like Dragon Co. music, and the graphics look fairly Dragon Co. as well, so i'm guessing Nice Code was the intermediary here like with the Hacker.

but unlike The Hacker it doesn't look like a hack, it has Titanic music and it generally seems like it was built from the ground up as a Titanic game. but Dragon Co went out of business in 2003 and I don't know of any cart release of this game before Nanjing's. and it seems odd that Nice Code would re-release a Dragon game completely unmodified in any case.

so what are we dealing with here? an unreleased Dragon game that was finished up by Nice Code? a previously released but undiscovered Dragon game? or just something more or less made from scratch by Nice Code, maybe using one or two old Dragon resources that one of the staff still had kicking around?

(also you have no idea how many times I typed "Titenic" instead of "Titanic" while I was writing this post)

[KingPepe]

It kind of sounds like an unreleased game. I really doubt it was from scratch by Nice Code (unless they have made Dragon Co.-like games in the past). The only thing I can think of is that they never released it and a few people from Dragon Co. went over to Nanjing, hacked it a bit (to include the "2005") and Nanjing released it.

[Awesome Panda]

I'd say that sometime in the mid-2000's, Tommy Xie probably left Dragon Co. for Tomsoft (might be wrong on that but whatever) and some of the other members probably went off to Nice Code.

[taizou]

well Tommy Xie pretty much is Tomsoft as far as I know. but yeah, some ex Dragon Co staff did move to Nice Code (Tommy himself confirmed that), thats how NC ended up with all the other hacks of their games (Primitive Man/Woman, The Hacker, Super Hero etc).

[Awesome Panda]

taizou

Jul 13 2011, 11:26:30 AM

some ex Dragon Co staff did move to Nice Code (Tommy himself confirmed that)[/quote]Wait, when did he say that?

[taizou]

oh it was in an email to Barver a while back, I put it in the Nice Code article on the wiki.