The Grasscutter, he knows who I am. I am the Nightrider! I am the chosen one. The mighty hand of vengeance, sent down to strike the unroadworthy! I'm hotter than a rollin' dice. Step right up, chum, and watch the kid lay down a rubber road, right to FREEDOM!
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Thanks for the link! I watched it with the family yesterday evening. Interesting to see how Peter has changed. Well, I remember I was in my late 20s when we all went to his 40th birthday party, and now I'm 50, so he must be in his 60s now.
Nice that Eric and I were kindly mentioned.
That story about how we met isn't quite true though it's based on facts. That's kind of what Peter does.
In fact I did work as a motorbike courier for a company called Black & White that was based in Twickenham. But I was looking for a job as a programmer (I had previously worked at a company called Digital Integration, on the Hind helicopter simulator) so I contacted a recruitment agency that specialised in game jobs. Quite quickly they came up with this interview, with someone who I would surely admire (Peter Molyneux). Actually I hadn't even heard of him before but went for the interview as it sounded good. I rode down on my bike and had a good meeting there, in which we of course talked about my job at Black & White, which was funny as the interview was about working on the game called Black & White.
I had a nice demo (with an animated car and some people and dogs that could walk around on a lumpy landscape - actually it's the same program that evolved into LFS) so they were able to offer me the job on the spot. I said, thanks and I'll consider it. But he looked a bit shocked and said, why aren't you accepting the job now? I said, well I thought that it was the right thing to do... and actually I decided to just accept it then anyway. That was the right move as it was a very good job in the end although there were ups and downs.
We got it running a few years ago, using a boxed game and the fan patches you can find online. Leo and Nicole enjoyed it quite a bit.
How about this attached picture from the video, you can see a creature editor I built in game, using my own buttons system that I had imported into Black and White.
Compare that with the attached image of the vehicle editor.
The early LFS in-game menu style was more inspired by Quake 3 Arena.
Wow that's a nice blast from the past!
I played Black & White back then. It was extremely special. Don't remember if I finished I think I got bored to be God at some point.
Anyway nice video and feedback from the "bloke" ;-)