Thanks so much for those thoughts, Rob! You are indeed correct that it's "only" three pages because it was originally a book chapter. Some had to necessarily be shorter and certainly Star Raiders was planned as a shorter one all along because many of the concepts were already covered in the Elite and Flight Simulator chapters, for instance.
They only left out one image this time, which I included in the bonus images on our site. It was the "sitting around" scene from an early Wing Commander game that was meant as a companion (the a to the published b picture) to the flying about bit. I'm actually surprised Gamasutra chose to cut it, as the chapter was short enough that it wouldn't have impacted it. And hell, there really shouldn't be cuts for space on the Web anyway.
Thanks so much for those thoughts, Rob! You are indeed correct that it's "only" three pages because it was originally a book chapter. Some had to necessarily be shorter and certainly Star Raiders was planned as a shorter one all along because many of the concepts were already covered in the Elite and Flight Simulator chapters, for instance.
They only left out one image this time, which I included in the bonus images on our site. It was the "sitting around" scene from an early Wing Commander game that was meant as a companion (the a to the published b picture) to the flying about bit. I'm actually surprised Gamasutra chose to cut it, as the chapter was short enough that it wouldn't have impacted it. And hell, there really shouldn't be cuts for space on the Web anyway.
Here are the bonus images (the first one is truly a bonus, the second one is the one that was cut): http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/node/2333
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