> For how long have you been ATARI fans ?
we got an ATARI 260 ST at Christmas 1996. Since this time we are Atari fans.
> When did you begin programming ?
My brother does all the programming, he started playing around with GFA
Basic not long after we got the machine. Later he programmed in Assembler.
> What was your first software ?
Software i used or software we did ? I used Degas and Degas Elite a lot in
these days. We made some games, but none of them were ever released to the
public.
> Do you still use your ATARI computers, for instance at work ?
No. It is hard to do some serious rendering stuff with this machines these
days
My brother does all the lynx programming on his Falcon. He programmed also
the Native demo
with his Falcon.
> And now we hear of your latest project : a Lynx game : Alpine Games. how
> did you decide to make this game ?
We liked the Epyx Games series, in fact the first game we played on the
Atari was World Games, which really rocked. And back in 1999 when we got a
BLL Kit from Bastian Schick we decided to program a game like Winter Games
on the Lynx.
> Will it be a two-player game ?
No, because the game was not planed as two player, and it's a lot of work to
change it, when it's not implemented from the start.
> How long will we have to wait before it's completed ?
Well, it is almost complete, just some tweaking left to do. We think the
game will be ready by the end of the year 2003.
> How much will be the retail price ?
Depends on the material costs, I hope we can bring the price under 40 euro
> I've discovered your website by hearing of this game, wasn't your website
closed ?
We hadn't time to do a new one as we both has also fulltime jobs
The new one is online since 2 month or so.
> Thanks to your website we have discovered NATIVE again. I must confess
> that afterwards I played the demo again.^^ On your website we can download
> two videos, on which we can see two bosses from Native and some
interesting
> new things, such as the coulour of the spaceship and an interesting
> possibility (or graphic effect ?) on the second video. Were those two
> sequences in 1997 programmed, or are they more recent ?
The native stuff is very old, must be from 97 or so. I think, I have not
touched it in ages. Some of the graphics you mentioned where done 2 month
after we stopped work on Native. They where planed for a Native on NUON, but
VMLabs was not interested in 2D Games in these days.
>Why did you wait until today to share them ?
Because we had no Webpage to put it onto.
>Have you really given up working on Native ?
Perhaps we will pick it up one day again, who knows, but for now,
espescially I don't have the time to do it as the most stuff that had to be
done is level design and Graphics.
>Don't you fear you may disappoint your Fans ?
We never promised anything to the Jaguar Fans.
> I've heard that you've made the FMVs for Iron Soldier 3, is it true ?
Yes
> How did you get involved in this project ? How was the atmosphere at
Eclipse
> Software ? What do you think about their team ?
It was at the time my brother talked with Marc Rosocha from Eclipse about
getting a NUON development Ssystem. He just startet with Iron Soldier III,
and so I got in contact with him.
It was a lot of fun to do this stuff with the eclipse team.
> Do you I stand a chance of working at a trainee ? At least in the
marketing
> district, for I don't have
> any knowledge in programming ?
Trainee ? We are not a professional company, just two brothers doing some
games in our spare time. I am working at a games company doing graphics
stuff and my brother who did
all the programming of our games works as network administrator.
Regards
Johannes / Duranik
bon oubliez ma dernière question en fait je voulais bosser chez Eclipse
