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[tommib]

Fun seems to have been replaced by profit.

I’m not saying the doom team wanted no money but I think the main thing they had was fun. Seems once money/shareholders got in the way it started to go off the rails.

John Romero went off the rails.

Also If I remember correctly the doom team had a female staff member who would take care of them in the sense she was like a surrogate mother. Making sure to remind them to eat/bath sleep etc. If I recall they had the upmost respect for her.
Donna Jackson was her name.

Though it wasn’t her job it was just they were too busy having fun making games to think about anything else.

Meet id Software’s Mother of DOOM

Celebrating 25 years of the id Mom

slayersclub.bethesda.net

She was the office manager. Where’s this quote she was telling to take a shower?

 

[jufonuk]

She was the office manager. Where’s this quote she was telling to take a shower?

I might have go that part wrong. But either way.

 

[calistan]

Sega Of Japan circa late 80's

Sega were rock stars back in the day. I visted Yu Suzuki's office once and he had all sorts of stuff from his Western celebrity fans in there - a letter from Spielberg with a picture drawn by Spielberg's daughter, a glove from Michael Jackson, a guitar signed by Eddie Van Halen.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Best thread in ages

 

[DenchDeckard]

Can we go back to 20 people teams, please?

 

[tommib]

Can we go back to 20 people teams, please?

But how will I get my bang for the buck without a 1000+ team?

 

[digdug2]

Can we go back to 20 people teams, please?

I wish. I miss the days of a 30 dollar high quality 6-10 hour game with minimal bloat. Sure, these still exist to a degree, but most game experiences now are 40-60 hours and beyond and they're loaded to the gills with bullshit side quests, bases to clear, increasingly rare items to farm, etc. It's all so draining.

I know that many people are looking for a 70 hours AC Valhalla-esque journey, but I'm really not one of them these days.

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

Can we go back to 20 people teams, please?

AI in the future might make this possible again, be careful what you wish for lol

 

[gaming_again]

I might have go that part wrong. But either way.

Did you read the book Masters of Doom? Maybe it's in there. I have it but I've not read it (yet).

 

[jufonuk]

Did you read the book Masters of Doom? Maybe it's in there. I have it but I've not read it (yet).

I have. That’s probably where I got it from. It is a really good book. Spoiler. They make doom.

 

[Randall365]

Does anyone know if you can run GOG games on a steam deck? They have almost all Sierra classics. I don’t have a windows PC. Would the deck run them? I would get one just to play Shivers and Gabriel Knight again.

You can but it is a bit of a faff. It would be easier to buy them on Steam on sale (the Quest collections are £5 each I think (Gabriel Knight is there too), where you get cloud save support and they run quite nicely with selection screens for collections etc.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Looking at all these photos and then being reminded about the stupid modern politics, almost all studios had both women and minorities in their gang. Yet the way they talk about it nowadays as if women were never allowed and it was a white person only sport to be a game developer.

 

[Roman Empire]

Great thread

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Anyone know what these boomers are all doing now days?

 

[Sleepwalker]

I see a pattern on those dev pics from almost 30 years ago...

I see a lot of male pattern baldness

 

[MrRenegade]

Nobody had purple/red hair back then. Why is that? How is that possible? How could they live?

 

[Games of Today]

What a coincidence of a thread, I just saw this while browsing twitter:


Also since Assassin's Creed is so hot right now, here's a picture of the original dev team that made AC1:

That's hot alright.

 

[ReyBrujo]

That’s pretty cool. I didn’t realize they had whole bunch of Western devs back then. Well, I probably read about it and forgot .

Most were probably visiting because everyone knows who was the first American to ever work on a Sonic game!

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Codemasters

 

[JohnnyTropics]

Sega Of Japan circa late 80's

If a movie ever gets made about this, Tom Cruise gonna play the guy in the front, far left.

 

[Krathoon]

Lot of dudes on those teams.

 

[GigaBowser]