The_Red_Hawk
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I don't know if this has been said anywhere, but I was just reading Erik's biography and it said that this year (2003, that is) Webfoot hired him to write some games for them. What sort are they?

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The_Red_Hawk wrote:
I don't know if this has been said anywhere, but I was just reading Erik's biography and it said that this year (2003, that is) Webfoot hired him to write some games for them. What sort are they?

I made seven card games and they got published in "eGames Card & Board Games" and "eGames Card & Board Games Volume 2", which you can find in the budget section at most places that sell PC software. They were... (can I remember them all now?) Old Maid, Gin Rummy, Spades, Hearts, Canasta, Pinochle, and Go Fish. These are super-cheapo, no-frills versions of these games. They were are all done in 3 months, with about 1/3 of the programming work completed by Krister Karlsson, and art/music/production credits going to other folks with Webfoot. The main thing I'm proud about is that this project was finished on-time, on-spec (no features were cut), and nearly bugfree (beta-testing turned up half a dozen bugs and we shipped). Please, nobody take this as an encouragement to go out and buy C&BG. If you want to, that's cool.

I can't comment much on other games since they haven't been published yet, and I'm under NDA with Webfoot. I finished a small puzzle game that DROD people might like, but it's shelved for now until a publishing opportunity comes up. Writing the game was a side effect of work on a larger project.

-Erik

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I'm just curious... were you following my column while writing these games?

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DiMono wrote:
I'm just curious... were you following my column while writing these games?

Well no, not really. After you wrote the first column, I checked back a few times for the second column, and then forgot about it for a while. Now I see you suddenly have five columns, so I just read through them all.

But anyhow, why do you ask? I don't see the connection.

-Erik

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Shameless plug.

Incidentally, I'm still up for the interview if you've still got the time.

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DiMono wrote:
Incidentally, I'm still up for the interview if you've still got the time.

Sure, just e-mail me when you are ready. We'll figure out the chat business through e-mail.

-Erik

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The Godkiller - Chapter 1 available now on Steam. It's a DROD-like puzzle adventure game.
dev journals | twitch stream | youtube archive (NSFW)