XCOM Post Mortem

[Volutar]

Who's Jake Solomon? First time heard of that dude. I guess he's one of hundereds of thousands of employees who didn't even write a line of code...

[pmprog]

Now they've followed it up with a CLASH OF THE TITANS Julian Gollop and Jake Solomon (old X-Com and new XCOM) meeting for the first time: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/02/x-com-vs-xcom-gollop-vs-solomon-past-vs-present/

Thanks, I'll have a read (or watch, as I've just noticed it's a vid)

Who's Jake Solomon? First time heard of that dude. I guess he's one of hundereds of thousands of employees who didn't even write a line of code...

He is (was) the lead designer on the new XCOM game. Check the link from this post
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,357.msg9569.html#msg9569

[Sharp]

Wow great presentation, tbh I always was 'grr Microprose made stuff bad with their evil publisher ways' but it's nice to see they actually gave a huge inspiration of the game and the parts that I loved.

Still think they rushed Apoc though

[Daiky]

Julian Gollop seems to be really in love with the new xcom - "the phoenix rising from the ashes"

[Volutar]

Comparing new xcom with old xcom enfoncer or xcom interceptor - he's right.

[SupSuper]

Still think they rushed Apoc though

I wouldn't say "rushed" since it apparently took 2-3 years. But I would've loved to hear the full story behind X-Com Apocalypse. He's only mentioned it in passing in interviews and apparently it was the complete opposite of the original X-Com, a really bumpy and overambitious development. Much more interesting to hear.

[pmprog]

I wouldn't say "rushed" since it apparently took 2-3 years. But I would've loved to hear the full story behind X-Com Apocalypse. He's only mentioned it in passing in interviews and apparently it was the complete opposite of the original X-Com, a really bumpy and overambitious development. Much more interesting to hear.

I might tweet him and see if he'll ever do something like that.

In fact, does anyone have any questions regarding Apocalypse? I might try and group them all together and see if I can "interview" him on it

[michal]

I might tweet him and see if he'll ever do something like that.

In fact, does anyone have any questions regarding Apocalypse? I might try and group them all together and see if I can "interview" him on it

Ask him what he thinks about OpenXcom

[Volutar]

pmprog, he already ignored my question about "opportunity fire" (in ufo) which replaced "enemy spotted" free action from laser squad...
if you'll be interviewing him, please ask this too.

[Sharp]

I wouldn't say "rushed" since it apparently took 2-3 years. But I would've loved to hear the full story behind X-Com Apocalypse. He's only mentioned it in passing in interviews and apparently it was the complete opposite of the original X-Com, a really bumpy and overambitious development. Much more interesting to hear.

There was a little bit he wrote when mythosgames.com (now defunct) was still around about the cut features of Apocalypse, and luckily I trawled through the wayback machine to find it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010411120930https:///www.mythosgames.com/xcomapocalypse.htm

It's sad looking at all the features that could have been in it but were cut, also I really liked the pausable real-time, it needed a bit of balancing to make it harder to abuse but it's a great feature to give the feel of making strategic descisions while actually looking a bit more realistic of a how a battle would be and interesting with all the projectiles flying about.