In this episode, I talk about how games don’t have to be so darn difficult and present some gameplay footage from Hit & Myth. And I actually kept the thing to under fifteen minutes this time!
Gamespot:
Google Video (quality still not as good; not sure how to fix it):
If neither of those work, you can download the file directly from here.
This week’s quote: “I got a present for ya!”
First heard in the original “Command & Conquer,” this was a short bit of unit response dialog attached to one of the most popular units, The Commando. (“That was left handed!” was another popular one.) This very powerful unit had five or six snarky replies, and ended up having such a “cult” following that Westwood eventually gave him a name (Major Nick “Havoc” Parker) and based an entire game around him (“Command & Conquer: Renegade”) in 2002.
I actually had the pleasure of fleshing “Havoc” out and writing more snarky dialog for him (I wrote all the cutscenes for Renegade.) All of the original lines found their way into the second game as well, so technically, “C&C” and “C&C: Renegade” are both valid answers. 🙂
Doh! I should have remembered that you worked on Renegade. Well, you’re the winner!
That was a frightful thing to hear sometimes, because it was never a nice sort of present. It was invariably a bundle of C4 being thoughtfully hand-delivered to my construction yard.
Thanks for the H&M footage! Man, I had a blast making that game with you guys 🙂
Seconded! (Donde esta the PC version?) 😉
Hooray! Planet X was my level and I’m very proud of how it turned out, coming in so late as I did in the project.
Nice to see Hit & Myth in action again. 🙂 I hope one day people get to play it somehow!
So, who owns the rights to it then?
The owner of the rights, last I heard, was in dispute. As it was made for the Gizmondo, Gizmondo owned the rights. However, whether it’s one of the things rolled up with GizEurope when it went belly up (and thus sold off to pay off a creditor) or whether it was absorbed by Tiger Telematics (Giz’s parent company) before the roll up is a matter of debate in the UK courts. End result is legal types tie it up for ever and it won’t be clear who owns it at the end of it all.