This... was pretty early on in my career. I made the castles, bridges, some of the first real handpainted texture work I did on all the surroundings. All in all, it was solid, but we had limited texture resources. Geeze, flashbacks! I was just, "I don't have enough poly's and pixels to make this look right!" But the lighting, writing, and voiceovers, and, most importantly, the gameplay sold it. It's actually the first full game I worked on as an environment artist start-to-finish. I'd helped wrap up. Little tidbits to this. The cover painting, was actually the color comp made by Hugh Jameson, awesome concept artist. So good, they took the color comcept to be the final work, and used that. Ack! I remember this vividly. I'd make the parts for art and fx and design to run around in. We've all gone on to other things, since, but if there's anything I'd wish would have a quality reboot, it'd be this. I've spoken with some about this, but the license is owned. Maybe I could throw ideas their way, a female warrior-sorceress dragon-riding warrior. It'd take some new writing, because this was about saving her little brother. That, was her quest. Not just beating things up, though Rynn and Arokh did that in spades. Looking back, I'm a tad embarrassed by some of the texture alignment, but when working with 64x64 pixel textures, beggars can't be choosers. Sorry, if I'm oversharing. And, kindof a zombie-post.
No need to apologize, You did amazing work man! Just wish it would'v gotton a proper PC port since that's where modding thrives, if ur ever feeling nostalgic i'm sure there's quite a few fans out there would love to see more custom levels/adventures made for the first game then the one's folks have already made for on PC. A proper reboot with today's tech and dialogue options would be epic!
That's how it all began. Everyone on Surreal's team were modders. Sony bought the rights to it, made it PST launch title. But a lot of us were on idSoftware's QNET Irc server. We all got snapped up by Raven, Valve, idSoftware, Surreal. But Hugh Jameson, Ben Olson... made the awesome concept work. I tried my best to implement it. Really, Hugh and Ben were the main force... well that's not a lie, exactly they were the concept main force. Mike Nichols, Nick Radovich, Stuart Denman... they were the driving force. But there were early mods, before it was ported to PS2. LIttle John, one of the team kinda lead the way on that, I made weapons for it. Pretty much all of us are still friends to this day. We went through the fire of putting something like this together.
@@arcaneknight9799 That'd be Ben Olson. He concepted a lof of things for id on Doom, after that. But... I think he and Hugh kinda collaborated on that. I modeled, textured the full final area, well... not all of it. Hans Piewnsky was by my side, he mentored me, actually. Respect due. Actually, when I first started at Surreal, I was living an a 600 square foot studio apartment, with no furniture. He took me out to lunch at one of the best Thai food places in Seattle. A welcome. We all just grew into buddies, but... kindness begets kindness. He's still one of the best men I've ever known. But... there are a number of them, women and men included, but he's the one who welcomed me with open arms.
✨🌟💫✨This game...means...sooooo.... Much to me!!!.. It was a very Difficult time in my life.. This game was the LIGHT...for me!!!💞💗🔥💗🔥💎💎💎💎💙💙💗🔥💗🔥💗🔥💛💛✨🌟💫✨💛
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This... was pretty early on in my career. I made the castles, bridges, some of the first real handpainted texture work I did on all the surroundings. All in all, it was solid, but we had limited texture resources. Geeze, flashbacks! I was just, "I don't have enough poly's and pixels to make this look right!" But the lighting, writing, and voiceovers, and, most importantly, the gameplay sold it. It's actually the first full game I worked on as an environment artist start-to-finish. I'd helped wrap up.
Little tidbits to this. The cover painting, was actually the color comp made by Hugh Jameson, awesome concept artist. So good, they took the color comcept to be the final work, and used that.
Ack! I remember this vividly. I'd make the parts for art and fx and design to run around in. We've all gone on to other things, since, but if there's anything I'd wish would have a quality reboot, it'd be this. I've spoken with some about this, but the license is owned. Maybe I could throw ideas their way, a female warrior-sorceress dragon-riding warrior. It'd take some new writing, because this was about saving her little brother.
That, was her quest. Not just beating things up, though Rynn and Arokh did that in spades.
Looking back, I'm a tad embarrassed by some of the texture alignment, but when working with 64x64 pixel textures, beggars can't be choosers.
Sorry, if I'm oversharing. And, kindof a zombie-post.
No need to apologize, You did amazing work man! Just wish it would'v gotton a proper PC port since that's where modding thrives, if ur ever feeling nostalgic i'm sure there's quite a few fans out there would love to see more custom levels/adventures made for the first game then the one's folks have already made for on PC. A proper reboot with today's tech and dialogue options would be epic!
Incredible! We need to interview you all.
I want to know who came up with the Flesh Mage.
That's how it all began. Everyone on Surreal's team were modders. Sony bought the rights to it, made it PST launch title.
But a lot of us were on idSoftware's QNET Irc server. We all got snapped up by Raven, Valve, idSoftware, Surreal.
But Hugh Jameson, Ben Olson... made the awesome concept work. I tried my best to implement it.
Really, Hugh and Ben were the main force... well that's not a lie, exactly they were the concept main force. Mike Nichols, Nick Radovich, Stuart Denman... they were the driving force.
But there were early mods, before it was ported to PS2. LIttle John, one of the team kinda lead the way on that, I made weapons for it.
Pretty much all of us are still friends to this day. We went through the fire of putting something like this together.
@@arcaneknight9799 That'd be Ben Olson. He concepted a lof of things for id on Doom, after that. But... I think he and Hugh kinda collaborated on that. I modeled, textured the full final area, well... not all of it. Hans Piewnsky was by my side, he mentored me, actually. Respect due.
Actually, when I first started at Surreal, I was living an a 600 square foot studio apartment, with no furniture. He took me out to lunch at one of the best Thai food places in Seattle. A welcome.
We all just grew into buddies, but... kindness begets kindness. He's still one of the best men I've ever known. But... there are a number of them, women and men included, but he's the one who welcomed me with open arms.
This was the first game that I ever played. I am proud to say that I own a physical copy.
great game use to play all the time as a kid
✨🌟💫✨This game...means...sooooo.... Much to me!!!.. It was a very Difficult time in my life.. This game was the LIGHT...for me!!!💞💗🔥💗🔥💎💎💎💎💙💙💗🔥💗🔥💗🔥💛💛✨🌟💫✨💛
Hope you're well now.
thanks for uploading this!
That moon at the end of the first cutscene looks like Europa!
I just played this game earlier, sounds like king's field 2 final scene!
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Rynn, Lara Croft AOD and Balur Gate Dark Alliance (Adrianna) are the only ps2 games that had Great Boobs
What about females in Champions of Norrath?