![]() FTL became an Infocom that could never quite get past Zork.ĭoug Bell notes the failure to build on Dungeon Master in a timely way as his greatest regret from his days with FTL: “We got so busy doing ports of the game that we didn’t end up creating enough scenarios.” Wayne Holder believes FTL’s single biggest mistake to have been not to have sold their in-house Dungeon Construction Set, quite a polished creation in its own right, and “let people create their own stuff. Wayne Holder’s dream of making FTL the Infocom of CRPGs petered out in the face of their failure to actually, you know, make games. Neither ever materialized it appears there was quite a lot of wheel-spinning going on at FTL. We also heard regularly of a science-fiction scenario, possibly a sequel to Sundog. He often claimed that FTL had “several” titles in development using the Dungeon Master technology, among them an intriguing-sounding horror game that comes up in a number of interviews it might just have marked the beginning of the survival-horror genre several years before Alone in the Dark. Wayne Holder’s claim in 1988 that the technology they’d developed for Dungeon Master would soon allow FTL to pump out four to six games every year sounded hugely overoptimistic even then, but FTL’s failure to serve up anything new at all for long, long stretches of time is nevertheless a little shocking. He was not prepared for it to be successful, and I felt exactly like that.” Given FTL’s focus on technology almost for its own sake, and given that they already had a proven, hugely successful design on their hands, it was easy - perhaps a little too easy - to just focus on making all of the ports as good as they could be, on engineering gadgety distractions like that MS-DOS sound adapter. Nancy Holder learned a new sympathy for movie directors, who, after finishing a movie, “sometimes take years before they direct another,” while Wayne Holder recalls “Robert Rodriguez’s comment that all he wanted to do when he made El Mariachi was to make enough money to make another film. Comparisons to the world of film abound among the FTL alumni. Making the game had been an exhilarating experience, but as draining as any other difficult artistic birthing. Unfortunately, FTL proved to be like their competitors in that their own later efforts also pale in comparison to the first Dungeon Master. Zoria: Age of Shattering coming to Early Access on April 27th.Chris Avellone wins settlement after lawsuit over sexual assault accusations. ![]() SNEG release additional SSI Dungeons & Dragons titles on Steam and GOG.RPG Codex Retrospective Review: Freedom Force.Reclaim an infested subterranean city in Kingsvein, the next tactical RPG from Rad Codex.Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Location Trailer.RPG Codex Review: Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous.Colony Ship Early Access Update: Hydroponics New Zones.Archmage Rises now available on Early Access.Together in Battle now available on Early Access.Nox Archaist: Lord of Storms Expansion Pack Released.
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