1up.com's Week of Prey Coverage

[Joe Siegler]

http://prey.1up.com/

You'll want to check this out. I just this minute found out about it, and will have a news story about it on the 3DR site in a bit after I read it.

[Parkar]

WOW, that is freaking cool.

[Kristian Joensen]

As always 1up.com doesn't work for me.

[SyntaxN]

Parkar said:
WOW, that is freaking cool.

QFT

[Joe Siegler]

Prey coverage is starting to kick into high gear now, and with it comes this excellent series from Gaming news site 1Up. They will be having a Prey update daily this week, starting on January 30th and running through February 3rd. Each day will feature a different topic; the list of topics they're covering are:<ul>[*]Monday: Backtracking through a decade of development. [*]Tuesday: Straight from our George Broussard interview. [*]Wednesday: Portal tech in the Doom 3 engine.[*]Thursday: In-depth with the story of a reluctant hero. [*]Friday: Exclusive hands-on with multiplayer Prey.[/list]
Today, the series kicks off with Part I, entitled Fell on Black Days: Backtracking through a decade of development. This first part deals with the history of the project, going all the way back to its earliest incarnation in 1995. It talks a lot about the start of the project, both with Tom Hall & Paul Schuytema's time as project leads, and the brief attempt at the project when Corinne Yu was here, leading up the the shelving of the project for a long time before Human Head came into the picture.



Additionally, each day they're including some sort of media to go with the day's article. The media with today's article is the Prey trailer from back in 1997. You're definitely going to want to keep an eye out on this series all week, you can do so at http://prey.1up.com.

[ADM]

Parkar said:
WOW, that is freaking cool.

Quoted for truth

[Joe Siegler]

Kristian Joensen said:
As always 1up.com doesn't work for me.

Find a way - this is good stuff.

[Cerberus_e]

What problem do you have Kristian Joensen? It works here... maybe a browser related problem?
Unfortunately, I don't have time to read it now. I'll probably have to read each story the day after and I can't wait for the info about the portals and even more for the story.

[Gryph]

This is cool stuff. Thanks for the heads up!

[tpz]

Paste the adress in the "Starting URL" box here: http://www.the-cloak.com/login.html

Should work.

[Kristian Joensen]

That was an interesting read thanks to SyntaxN for dowloading it for me. Cerberus_e 1up.com NEVER goes past the "waiting for 1up.com" stage no matter what browser I use, everyother site I have been to on the internet works just fine. These problem whre also there for me in the days of dialup and they are still not fixed.

[Kristian Joensen]

tpz said:
Paste the adress in the "Starting URL" box here: http://www.the-cloak.com/login.html

Should work.

Finaly that made it work.

[ultra tree 85!]

Cool!!!!
I can't wait for the George Broussard interview tomorrow.

[Damien_Azreal]

ultra tree 85! said:
Cool!!!!
I can't wait for the George Broussard interview tomorrow.

Yeah.

I kindo fskimmed through the stuff they had up for today, nothign really shocking or new there.

But the interview tomorrow is what i'm waiting for.

[hell-angel]

Great find Joe. Great read to.

I can't wait for that interview with GB.

[ShadeEX]

Nice .... i can't wait for the interview either...

[dark_angel]

awesome!

[ADM]

Damien_Azreal said:

Yeah.

I kindo fskimmed through the stuff they had up for today, nothign really shocking or new there.

But the interview tomorrow is what i'm waiting for.

What about the singleplayer and multiplayer videos they have up at the end of the week?

[Ronald McDonald]

Kewl, now where's teh demo

[hell-angel]

ADM said:

What about the singleplayer and multiplayer videos they have up at the end of the week?

I really hope they put those up, but I just thought it would be a review.

[Assault]

Thursday is the most interesting of the updates. I'll definitely check that out.

[Micki!]

Wow, that's a cool feature...
Would be nice to get it as a PDF file...

[Cerberus_e]

hell-angel said:
Great find Joe.

You mean he coincidentally found it while browsing the web?

hell-angel said:
I can't wait for that interview with GB.

Are you convinced he'll say something new and not what he and HH employees already said a lot in the past in interviews?

[Denz]

I would like a wallpaper of that monster. Same style black and white.

[hell-angel]

Cerberus_e said:

You mean he coincidentally found it while browsing the web?

" I just this minute found out about it" Say enough right. But no, probably not while browsing the web.

Are you convinced he'll say something new and not what he and HH employees already said a lot in the past in interviews?

Nothing mind blowing, but you never know. Besides, usually GB's opinion about games and their development is worth thinking about. IMO that is.

[ADM]

hell-angel said:

I really hope they put those up, but I just thought it would be a review.

It's media downloads:

Monday
Original Prey Demo Video

Tuesday
George B. Interview Audio

WEDNESDAY
Hot New Prey Screens

THURSDAY
Single Player Video

FRIDAY
Multi-Player Video

[DI-MeisterM]

Time to check again on Thursday and Friday

[Assault]

ADM said:

It's media downloads:

Monday
Original Prey Demo Video

Tuesday
George B. Interview Audio

WEDNESDAY
Hot New Prey Screens

THURSDAY
Single Player Video

FRIDAY
Multi-Player Video

So Thursday is an update about characters AND a single player video?
'H' 'E' double hockey stick - yeah!

[hell-angel]

ADM said:

It's media downloads:

Monday
Original Prey Demo Video

Tuesday
George B. Interview Audio

WEDNESDAY
Hot New Prey Screens

THURSDAY
Single Player Video

FRIDAY
Multi-Player Video

Didn't see that.

[Ronald McDonald]

When will the next day be unlocked?

[Joe Siegler]

Cerberus_e said:

You mean he coincidentally found it while browsing the web?

Yes, Mr Smarty pants. I did. No one told me about it.

[dark_angel]

Anyone like to hear GB ?

[Joe Siegler]

Day two is up.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3147571

Has both a text and audio interview with George. Larger story in a minute when I get a chance to read it.

[yossa]

It's a good interview, worth reading.

[Joe Siegler]

Today is Day 2 of 1up.com's Week of Prey Coverage and they've published their latest piece. Today's piece is entitled "Say it Ain't So". This is an interview with 3D Realms' George Broussard talking about Prey.



The interview is wide ranging running from the early days of the project in 1995, through the change in development teams, up until now, how the tech has evolved, and lots of Prey specific questions. The interview also talks about a few things that aren't Prey specific such as what happened to the shareware game concept of distribution. Of course, since it's an interview with George, there's a few tidbits in there about Duke Nukem Forever, as well. Here's a few samples from the interview:



1UP: So I can start off: Just kind of take us back to 95 and just kind of tell us what was it like at Apogee/3D Realms back then. What was going on?



GB: Well, in 95 we were still working on Duke Nukem 3D, and so it was pretty hectic, just trying to get that game finished and basically trying to move from being a shareware developer doing smaller games to doing more large-scale games to try to get into the retail space. And then obviously, Duke went out and did really, really well in 96, and we were all really happy with the results from that. We started looking at wanting to expand a little bit and start another team, and that's kind of how we started building the Prey team.



1UP: So when you see what Human Head's doing with it now, does it really capture what you guys envisioned back then [in 1995]? What it's like comparing today's portals to 10 years ago's portals?



GB: It's pretty close; it's fundamentally the same stuff. We're all surprised that no one else really took that direction, because they're not really technically that hard to do. I know they got a lot of press from being like a whiz-bang cool thing back then, but technically, they just weren't too difficult to do, and there are some neat gameplay things you can do with it. But really, Human Head is pretty much just carrying on the torch and doing almost exactly what we were doing back then, and then expanding it into other areas with wall-walking and spirit walk and those kind of new things.



1UP: What kind of - so tell me about, like, what kind of feelings were you guys having when it actually started to come together, you're like: "Wow, we're going to bring Prey back"?



GB: It was a pretty fun time. We also were really close with the id guys through our past relationships, and that let us get the Doom 3 engine really, really early. I think we got it just a couple or three weeks after Raven did.



This interview also has an audio file of George, so you can listen to the interview and hear George speak it in addition to reading it on the page. All of this goodness is available on the 1up site here.

[Kristian Joensen]

That was a VERY VERY interesting read.

[ADM]

Kristian Joensen said:
That was a VERY VERY interesting read.

and listen

[Kristian Joensen]

Yes, that too, refreshing to here George's voice.

[Micki!]

I'm waiting with the voice thing to tomorrow... My internet is limited, and will be re-filled tomorrow...

But the article was damn interresting...
As i said in my earlyer post, a PDF version would be nice...

[lonestar]

Joe3DR said:
Day two is up.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3147571

Has both a text and audio interview with George. Larger story in a minute when I get a chance to read it.

audio interview? o - m - g!

must. tune. in. now.