Maxxon: переводы

→Armagan Yavuz: Initially we wanted to make a game where sword fighting felt like you were actually involved by using your reflexes; parrying, feigning, etc. Then, while we were working on that bit, we wanted to add more aspects of medieval combat such as horseback fighting, and interesting and realistic archery. At another level, we wanted to make the general gameplay like a sandbox game because we do love those kinds of games. Sid Meier’s Pirates!, in particular, inspired the feel we were trying to create in Mount & Blade. Pirates! had a unique randomness about it that would make the player feel like he was having a completely new experience each time he played the game, and we strived to give Mount & Blade that same sense of freedom and replayability.

→So yeah. Those two probably had the biggest impact on me. In recent years, it’s been lighter stuff like Pikmin and Katamari Damacy. I’m less of a hardcore gamer than I used to be, so I’m liking things I can sit down and play in little bursts. And Katamari had such a hilarious aesthetic.

→I grew up playing lots of Archon on Commodore 64 and then later I got into NES games like Mega Man (especially 3). But I think the two big ones for me were Lemmings and Quest for Glory 1 (the VGA remake), which I’d have to play at school or at friends’ places because I didn’t have a PC. But Lemmings was brilliant – so much appeal right off the bat with those exploding characters, which kept you staring long enough to get totally hooked on the game itself. And Quest for Glory blew me away because I’d never played a game with so much atmosphere – all that stuff to explore and discover. I had only played action games until then, so the idea that this game had a whole world to walk around in – it was amazing! And back then I never noticed whether it seemed “too scripted” or whatever. It just kept unfolding.

→What systems and games did you own and play growing up?

→That’s it exactly. I think I saw 5 Days a Stranger first and it went on from there.

→How did you come to tinker with AGS? Was it something you just stumbled across and thought “this might be cool to try out?”

→Because it was the one bit of software I had some experience with (working on those doomed adventure games). But also, it’s good for static-background 2D stuff, it’s really easy to use and it’s got a nice pathfinder for when I want my monsters not to walk through walls.

→Since it is designed to develop point’n’click adventure games, why use AGS for Gesundheit!? (Even though it does have a point and click interface.)

→The other game stuff I’ve done has been a few AGS adventure games that never got off the ground (but which would have been totally epic) and a few teeny tiny AGS things for friends. Also, I went to the very fun TOJAM (Toronto Indie Game Development Jam) in May 2007 and over an insane three days made crappy art for several different dev teams’ games.

→Like I was saying, I did some Quake 1 stuff in high school that didn’t go anywhere. One of my friends was a bit of a programmer so he and I worked on a few never-to-be-finished mods. That’s when I did my first bit of animation and learned what a walk cycle was and what a palette was and all that. One of our brilliant ideas was to bring Mario to Quake (in FULL 3D!!!) and we were on Blue’s News back in the day and it was very exciting. If I recall correctly, we even got an email from a guy who said he worked for Nintendo, asking us to stop, so we were thinking of changing it into a Mario-ESQUE game… but then we saw Mario 64 and impossibly, it was even better than what we had thrown together. And probably less infringing on other people’s copyrights too. So that was the end of that.