- warriors300
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From reading this forum and soaking up everything there is to know about Aerospace hitherto (plus investigating some speculation), I've reached the following conclusion:
IT IS MOST LIKELY A UDK-LIKE GAME DEVELOPMENT TOOL OR A STEAM-LIKE METHOD OF GAME DISTROBUTION. (Or ideally, both, in a world-dominating package with slingshot DLC.)
Personally, I think the idea of a game SDK the most apt - with some of the great technologies in Reach (and eighteen months with a greatly bolstered team thanks to the aforementioned aggressive job advertisements), Bungie is ideally placed to challenge Epic (with whom they have had good relations publicly through MGS) by making a game development kit. Assuredly, it would be crazily popular, but personally, I think that this is a fool's dream - though with Bungie you can never know; I'd like to be pleasantly surprised.
However, I think that the marriage of an Epic-like dev. kit with would be the most successful idea - to that end, they'd be killing two birds with one stone: Epic by supplying independent developers (Moonshot Games, perhaps?) with the tools to build games, and Valve by a Steam-beating distribution method to get these titles out to consumers. With a devoted following such as Bungie's - and on multiple platforms, as is their agreement with Activision - it wouldn't be a hard sell, and I can immediately see it becoming industry leader.
The specific namings of Aerospace and Grognok [sic - you know how it's spelt!] could pertain to this: Aerospace as the dev. kit itself, and Grognok the Steam-like client.
However, what I DON'T want it to be at any cost in a WoW-like ARG - this doesn't appear to be Bungie's style, and I think that their fanbase won't digest it well (what do you guys think?).
Just my two pennies (cents).
P.S. Look at the 'Goods and Services' part of the TARR document that's been mentioned - my idea would fit.