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General News - Rebecca Heineman Interview
March 11th, 2016, 01:53
Nodontdie interviewed Rebecca Heineman the the CEO of Olde Sküül:
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All right. Let's get started. I am Rebecca Heineman. I'm the CEO of Olde Sküül, a videogame company based in Seattle founded by several really senior developers in the games industry.Thanks Couch!
I've been developing games for well over 30 years and I'm responsible for several huge franchises. Most notably The Bard's Tale, Dragon Wars, Out of This World-- I'm one of the programmers on that. Pretty much I'm a classic gamer.
I honestly think if you were to take someone who's been playing videogames for about two decades or even one decade, you have probably worked on something that they have played.
Exactly.
[Laughs.]
To put it in perspective, I'm one of the founders of Interplay. When it was Jay [Patel], Troy [Worrell], Brian Fargo, and myself, we founded the company and I was the one who wrote most of the games for Interplay for our first five years of existence. Like, I wrote Mindshadow, Tracer Sanction, Tass Times in Tonetown, Borrowed Time. Did the technology behind Bard's Tale I and II. I wrote Bard's Tale III.
Did ports for all of our games. I did ports -- under the Interplay banner, I did Racing Destruction Set for the Atari 800. But, see, these are all things I did to generate money so that we wouldn't go out of business. [Laughs.] And so we would be able to start doing things that, you know, later one was like Battle Chess, which was one of the first games we did that was actually published by Interplay and not by someone else. […]
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March 11th, 2016, 01:53
Ouch! I find that painful to read. Is that what they call an interview nowadays?
little backer that could
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March 11th, 2016, 03:10
The anecdote on Doom for 3DO is absolute gold.
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Your Heavenly Father loves you and wants you to come to repentance
Your Heavenly Father loves you and wants you to come to repentance
Originally Posted by Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
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March 11th, 2016, 03:24
I couldnt read the 3do doom bits. That pastor is not a man of God that is for certain.
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March 11th, 2016, 03:43
"I did Racing Destruction Set for the Atari 800." OMG, that game was awesome! I remember jumping my car clear off the track, out of video memory, and into main memory space. Now THAT was a crash!
Tried to look at the main website but my virus scanner said nasty things about it.
Tried to look at the main website but my virus scanner said nasty things about it.
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The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views….-- Doctor Who in "Face of Evil"
I smell a… wumpus!?
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