Matt, I'd love to see the interview/notes with Roth/Stark etc. of Shard of Spring/Demons Winter. (DW is one of my fav's....). Is it something you could put up on AA?
Shame Charles W. Dougherty isn't around/findable to poke about Q1/Q2/LotA/LoB and his whole involvment with SSI/EPYX/EA mix.
I'll have to check my email and see if that was an email or phone interview. If it's an email, I will put it up, but the phone ones would be far more difficult. I had no way to record the calls, so just had to rely on jotting down notes.
As I mentioned earlier, if you try hard enough, you will find games that aren't mentioned. Blame it on ignorance, carelessness, or whatever, but it was a big project and there are bound to be slips. I've already had to bite my tongue at a few people who accused me of doing lousy research just because I didn't mention some obscure homebrew Linux project or another that only a few dozen people ever played. I mean, c'mon. I guarantee you, most authors, there would be far bigger and more serious gaps, not to mention errors--I saw a video on G4 the other day that claimed Zelda was the first RPG. Even the "Official Book of Ultima" didn't even mention Mt. Drash, not even in a footnote. How many know about the zelda games for the CD-i?
In my defense, though, it appears that Jade Empire was an Xbox game, though there has been a PC port (last year, I think?). In any case, I haven't played it yet. ;) I will hopefully get the chance to make some changes for the second printing, and it might be worth adding a game or two if you folks think it'd be helpful.
Matt, I'd love to see the interview/notes with Roth/Stark etc. of Shard of Spring/Demons Winter. (DW is one of my fav's....). Is it something you could put up on AA?
Shame Charles W. Dougherty isn't around/findable to poke about Q1/Q2/LotA/LoB and his whole involvment with SSI/EPYX/EA mix.
I'll have to check my email and see if that was an email or phone interview. If it's an email, I will put it up, but the phone ones would be far more difficult. I had no way to record the calls, so just had to rely on jotting down notes.
As I mentioned earlier, if you try hard enough, you will find games that aren't mentioned. Blame it on ignorance, carelessness, or whatever, but it was a big project and there are bound to be slips. I've already had to bite my tongue at a few people who accused me of doing lousy research just because I didn't mention some obscure homebrew Linux project or another that only a few dozen people ever played. I mean, c'mon. I guarantee you, most authors, there would be far bigger and more serious gaps, not to mention errors--I saw a video on G4 the other day that claimed Zelda was the first RPG. Even the "Official Book of Ultima" didn't even mention Mt. Drash, not even in a footnote. How many know about the zelda games for the CD-i?
In my defense, though, it appears that Jade Empire was an Xbox game, though there has been a PC port (last year, I think?). In any case, I haven't played it yet. ;) I will hopefully get the chance to make some changes for the second printing, and it might be worth adding a game or two if you folks think it'd be helpful.
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