Working Title is joining the MSFS 2020 Team

[virtuali 4,446]

Congratulations to WT, and mark my words:

I'm sure this will be a start of many great things for you. Our cooperation with Microsoft, which dates back to 2006 and lead to what was the most detailed default airplane for FSX ( the F/A-18 ), basically kickstarted FSDT, and lead to some of our people quitting their old job, moving to other countries, changing their lives...

Also, be prepared to be pestered ( we pest Asobo every other day...) by me with requests for interfaces, features, simconnect suggestions, since we all want to be sure what will surely be the best default airplanes for MSFS 2020 will be properly served and nicely integrated with a certain popular and upcoming "ground services" add-on...

Edited March 11, 2021 by virtuali

[MattNischan 3,836]

Just a quick note on our SDK work,

Our primary focus on that end will most likely be fleshing out, documenting, framework-ifying, and otherwise making super awesome to use the HTML/JS side of the SDK. It's no secret that I really believe in that stack, and we all feel a healthy investment in it can only serve to democratize the platform, reduce development costs for third parties in the long term, and open up the sim to the next wave of amazing engineers and designers. And I believe we can build something that guides developers into success, by making standard the patterns that are not normally obvious for writing high performance code in garbage collected languages. I'd love to put the performance comparisons to bed.

I'm sure the WASM side will benefit from some of these concepts (and I have some ideas there too ;-)), but that probably won't be our main area of work, at least in the beginning.

-Matt

Edited March 11, 2021 by MattNischan

[David Roch 1,983]

Congrats and good luck Matt! 👍

[omarsmak30 4,068]

A question @MattNischan, from what I understood, you guys are starting the company WT that has a contract with Microsoft to work on MSFS, very similar to Asobo, Meteorblue, Orbx, Gaya .. etc, having said that, will your contract with Microsoft allow guys to start payware projects as sideline projects or all of you have to be 100% committed into the development of MSFS? 

[Gregg_Seipp 571]

19 hours ago, xender said:

They just confirmed that the garmin mod will be default on the sim sometime in the future and they will be working full time on it

I was saying to myself, yesterday, after Sim Update 3, that Asobo wasn't even making as much progress on the G1000/G3000 than the WT guys...that they (Asobo) should just get out of the way and let them do it.  This is a huge win for FS2020 and the community.  They weren't going to be successful *at all* and I do mean *at all* with the sim in the long run without the navigation systems that are already available in P3D and X-Plane.  And the work WT is doing on the CJ4 is just stellar.  Good move.  Very good move.

Edited March 11, 2021 by Gregg_Seipp

[MattNischan 3,836]

13 minutes ago, omarsmak30 said:

A question @MattNischan, from what I understood, you guys are starting the company WT that has a contract with Microsoft to work on MSFS, very similar to Asobo, Meteorblue, Orbx, Gaya .. etc, having said that, will your contract with Microsoft allow guys to start payware projects as sideline projects or all of you have to be 100% committed into the development of MSFS? 

I can't speak to way long down the road, but not only do we have no current plans to go to payware projects, we are under contract to be 100% dedicated to the sim.

We have always felt strongly, especially at this sim's early stage, that our work should benefit every user of MSFS, and we're taking that same energy into this partnership for sure.

-Matt

[omarsmak30 4,068]

Also another question Matt and others, I think you are aware that there are many open source projects (e.g: Apache Kafka .. etc), that are essentially open source projects licensed under Apache 2.0, many of these companies that are backing these project (Confluent in example of Kafka), running on the idea of funneling back the contributions from the upstream open source project into the enterprise paid version. Even Microsoft themselves have the same concept for couple of features and utilities in Windows 10, for example Windows 10 calculator and Windows 10 PowerToys which essentially are open source projects but funnelled back to Windows 10 official releases. Now in the context of the WT Garmin and CJ4, I see no problems to follow this the same model, as long the license is MIT which means the contributions happen on the WT open source github and can be funnelled back into MSFS. Of course not everything 100% needs to ported but depending on the situation. I am sure you guys would like this kind of model, but I hope you guys pressure Microsoft and Jörg about this and I know is something new in flight simulation platform but hey, this is how modernization in technology should happen as well 😉. 

 

 

[LanceW 15]

17 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Nothing like being positive. 

 

I call it being realistic.

[JBDB-MD80 1,485]

6 hours ago, Cognita said:

 It has given me some renewed confidence that Asobo is trying to make this into a fully fledged flight simulator. Congrats again to the WT team.

You mean Microsoft they are the ones footing the bill. Oh and the users too.

Edited March 11, 2021 by jbdbow1970

[Tom_L 558]

@MattNischan and all you WT people: I took my time to post because tbh I was - let's say not amused - by the news the great CJ4 mod will probably maintain it's current state for quite some time (it is fantastic, but I would have hoped for independent displays and FMCs as well as Arc-DME approaches and maybe even RF Legs and ....) but I understand your decision and I can see the benefits for the platform. At the speed you guys were making progress with the CJ4 I was not only hoping to bridge the gap until PMDG and the lot will be able to deliver but I realized how much fun a full fledged Bizjet would be (hint 😉). I sincerely hope someone will pick up the CJ4 where you left and wish you guys all the best with your company.

 

[kaosfere 3,115]

3 hours ago, virtuali said:

I'm sure this will be a start of many great things for you. Our cooperation with Microsoft, which dates back to 2006 and lead to what was the most detailed default airplane for FSX ( the F/A-18 ), basically kickstarted FSDT, and lead to some of our people quitting their old job, moving to other countries, changing their lives...

Also, be prepared to be pestered ( we pest Asobo every other day...) by me with requests for interfaces, features, simconnect suggestions, since we all want to be sure what will surely be the best default airplanes for MSFS 2020 will be properly served and nicely integrated with a certain popular and upcoming "ground services" add-on...

 

Thanks for the congrats and the kind words.   We hope you're right, and I look forward to opportunities to work with you on a professional basis!

[Kilo60 660]

Great news!

 

Now he can help with the much needed next world update!

[Ricardo41 5,959]

I'm confused: are you guys employees of Asobo, or are you an LLC under contract with Microsoft- this thread started out with someone claiming that "Matt Nischan is joining the Asobo team".

[FlyingInACessna 656]

10 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

I'm confused: are you guys employees of Asobo, or are you an LLC under contract with Microsoft- this thread started out with someone claiming that "Matt Nischan is joining the Asobo team".

I believe they formed Working Title LLC and are under a full-time contract to do work for Asobo.

[Flyfaster_MTN002 412]

10 minutes ago, Ricardo41 said:

I'm confused: are you guys employees of Asobo, or are you an LLC under contract with Microsoft- this thread started out with someone claiming that "Matt Nischan is joining the Asobo team".

the latter with the caveat that it is exclusive. See above.