Has there ever been a tell-all thread by former Dynamix employees?
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Veteran X
Incredible Machine was so awesome... we used to play that and Civilizaiton in middle school
The real question is how often were the coders drinking while working? It would explain why there were so many problems with the game. I LOVED those Unhandled Exception errors!
Or that the game was not really done and shoved out the door before they could get it cleaned up.
They announced an XBLA version but it hasn't been released yet.
Yeah the exception errors really sucked. The Tribes team was disintegrating, many of the the original team members were gone, and there were forces beyond local control pushing it out the door too early. Kind of depressing really.
There was not a lot of drinking on the clock even when the cases of beer started showing up. We drank after hours and played a whole lot of games. On second thought I guess that was work too.
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There are some things I don't really think I should mention regarding the demise of the FPS games, this industry is just too small.
We had an entire mo-cap range of motions for a new branch of the franchise that could have been another kick ass product.
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I still stand by T2, virtually everyone on the team really poured heart and soul into that beast.
Since Dynamix I have worked for a startup or two, spent a few years at EA mainly working on a couple of Bond games (EON and FRWL), and now I work for Activision. Most recent shipped game GH:VH.
A couple of years ago I worked on PS3 Quake Wars which was a major challenge at times but it felt like a distant relative of Tribes. By the end of that cycle I wound up being the lone artist/level wrangler on the ps3 version. A lot of the dev's in England were hard core Tribes players.
Since Dynamix I have worked for a startup or two, spent a few years at EA mainly working on a couple of Bond games (EON and FRWL), and now I work for Activision. Most recent shipped game GH:VH.
A couple of years ago I worked on PS3 Quake Wars which was a major challenge at times but it felt like a distant relative of Tribes. By the end of that cycle I wound up being the lone artist/level wrangler on the ps3 version. A lot of the dev's in England were hard core Tribes players.
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and schlongs
Dangerdoggie
Veteran XV
First thing developers should do if they're considering a team based FPS multiplayer game is sit down and force their team to play Tribes.
Section 8 boasted about having fans of Tribes in their developer ranks, apparently they all started playing when Tribes Vengeance came out.
What a shitty game, and oh hey look it's dead already.
I think people give too much credit to the original dynamix devs who came up with the gameplay design of T1. That game, which has all the earmarks of a game designed on a beer coaster after long hours of production on "Starsiege", ceased being played 2-3 months into 1999.
It has all-kinds of lofty and well intended ideas cobbled out of pure creativity and inspired from gameplay that already existed in it's early peers... 80% of which fell to the wayside in the crucible of public scrutiny. The game players were soon playing, bore little resemblance to the game literally described on the back of the box.
It has all-kinds of lofty and well intended ideas cobbled out of pure creativity and inspired from gameplay that already existed in it's early peers... 80% of which fell to the wayside in the crucible of public scrutiny. The game players were soon playing, bore little resemblance to the game literally described on the back of the box.
I think it was mentioned in that other thread that they shipped 250k copies of them before the purchase and then had all 250k recalled because they didn't work.