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$25,000 Reached! Historical Docs Funded!

Patrons!

Less than two days after we began the Noclip 2.0 funding drive we have already reached our first target. Thanks to you we are currently in the process of funding some multi-city historical docs, and also pumping some extra cash into the project we're filming next week.

I just want to thank all of you who joined up over the past two days and the many of our die-hard patrons who upped their pledges in the past few days. I receive a little email update whenever somebody joins or increases their pledge so I've been watching each of your names trickle down my phone and PC screen for the past two days. It's been a very humbling experience, especially as we so quickly broke our all-time record patronage and funding amounts so quickly.

So...onto the important question Patrons.

What Historical Game Documentary do you want us to do?

What closed studio or old game would you like us to track down?

We've had some very interesting suggestions from Twitter including the work of Maxis, Westwood, 38 Studios, LuicasArts and of course Telltale. But as many of you know, I love taking cues from our community here on Patreon, so please let me know what your dream Noclip retrospective would be.

Let us know in the comments as we work towards our to our next goal. Embedded documentaries!

Danny

$25,000 Reached! Historical Docs Funded!

Comments

Bullfrog!!

Brian O'Byrne

Hope I'm not too late to say HOMEWORLD and Westwood could be cool subjects for docs.

Matt K

The studio SSI (Strategic Simulations games), specifically the gold Box series of games. Have some real fond memories of playing those games.

Jan Petter Holmberg

Relic and Homeworld might be interesting given the recent remake.

Imspinnennetz

A trip to the Ukraine for a doc on GEC Gameworld would be incredible, but uncredibly challenging to pull off. The studio's history would make for compelling viewing and securing an interview with the secretive Sergei Grigorovich would be a feat in itself. Here's hoping my pledge will at least sponsor you some Kartoplia Solimkoi.

Christo Jooste

Maxis would have been an awesome retrospective. Those guys affected the industry and the genre of sims in so many ways. And I can only imagine how create you, Jeremy and Esteban will get with the footage that mimics the style of those sims!

Tohir Tillyaev

I would love to see a doc on Myst!

+1 on Maxis and Westwood, would be very keen to see these. If you could wrangle Will Wright, that would be awesome. Also - I know they're still running, but perhaps the past of Cyan and the Myst series?

Patrick Hanlan

This is an awesome idea. I immediately thought of old-school PC stuff, like Bobby Prince for Doom and Duke3d. Or Michael Land with the good ol’ iMUSE stuff from the LucasArts days.

Cameron Ladd

A Doc on the evolution of graphics with a focus on how different studios overcame limitations and used different techniques to move the industry forward. Bungie would be cool

Simon Oliver

Something on music would be good. From 8-bit through to the composers working these days, especially in light of the recent death of Ben Dalglish

Mark Fraser

What might be cool is a look at Piracy in Video Games, how long it goes back, what is platform holders and developers did in each generation to fight back and what the evolving face of piracy is like today. You could make several docs here but standouts could be the Mega Drive (Genesis) vs EA, a three part series of consoles marred by piracy - C64, PS1 and Dreamcast, what manufacturers have done to fight back (GameCube disc size). Extending from this would be topics such as cloned games starting all the way in the arcade with Pong ripoffs through to today with Flappy Bird and Threes

Simon Johnson

STALKER

Matthew Roberts

The making of the very first Assassin's Creed and it's ties to Prince of Persia

David Chambers

Totally random but somebody did a game dissection on DS itself awhile back, they did like two videos (they were gonna do 3 but the 3rd never happened) but it's super interesting <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=891-nJWxJGY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=891-nJWxJGY</a>

Nick Grugin

Studio specific -4A Games (Metro games) -Zeboyd Games (Breath of Death, Cthulhu Saves the World, Penny Arcade games, Cosmic Star Heroine) -Remedy Studios -Irrational Games -Red Barrel Studios (Makers of Outlast games) -Supergiant Games -inXile Entertainment (Wasteland, Torment, etc) Game Specific -Silent Hill Franchise -Thief Franchise -Five Nights At Freddy's Franchise Probably impossible -Visceral Studios / Dead Space

Nick Grugin

Well, Telltale games and LucasArts are inextricably linked. How about do both by focusing on the ones who left LucasArts and formed Telltale?

Jesse James

Elite, by David Braben and Ian Bell. Or maybe a series of interviews with game developers from the 8-bit era.

Ronny Arild

Would be cool to see a look at the golden age of RTS games, with Warcraft, Command &amp; Conquer, Age of Empires, Homeworld. Or just Homeworld... Relic really left an imprint on me with those games.

Black Isle or Westwood would be amazing. Great work guys keep it up! Happy to up my pledge

Henry Gann

Not an old or closed studio, but how about a localisation studio for Japanese visual novels, like MangaGamer?

Black Isle. Has there ever been a dev team so important to the future of gaming, especially RPG?

Ivan Mikulic

Throwing some topics out there... Everything UK dev, in particular around the C64 / Amiga era. Team 17, Infogrames, Ocean, System 3, Epyx, and no doubt many others. Perhaps even individuals, Jeff Minter, Martin Galway, Shaun Southern, Ben Daglish... How about the early incarnations of Activision or Electronic Arts who both were very active during that time. Broderbund? Carol Shaw: She received the Industry Icon Award at The Game Awards 2017 for her work with the 2600, specifically River Raid. What other stories are there around women in those formative years. PC era, Origin Systems, Wing Commander &amp; Ultima are obviously huge franchises. 3D Realms, especially their work with Ken Silverman and his development of the Build engine which ran Duke, Blood, Shadow Warrior etc. There has to be a story around Epic Megagames, how can the organision that is responsible for Jill of the Jungle strike such gold with Fortnite BR? Sierra and their library of adventure games. Delphine Software, the French team behind Another World and Flashback. There's probably something in Coin-op and Arcade, Street Fighter is a first thought.

YesButSeriouslyTho

Hurray! As a fan of "old school" RTS games, both Westwood and Ensemble Studios would be right up my alley. Age of Empires 2, by Ensemble, is perpetually popular, with an expansion for the 19 year old game released a couple of years ago. (And isn't Relic working on Age of Empires 4?) Plus, as previously mentioned, something on workers' rights would be appreciated. Especially in light of Telltale's recent demise.

James Osgood

A little off topic. You mentioned workers rights a few times. Its a little dry, but I would like to see a NoClip version. A doc to serve as inspiration and reminder. Plenty of grim stories, but it would be great to hear and see the history of everything from small to big companies/groups doing it the right way in a world of ever changing teams and crunches - that it can be done, is done and the many ways of how to do it. Also, I'm really glad its all working out.

Anders Warming

This might not be historical since there's a current litigious controversy going on but a Star Control retrospective might be really interesting. Maybe getting in touch with the open source Ur Quan Masters project leads, the artists who contributed remixes of their old tracker music and maybe even the team who worked on Star Control 3 and get the skinny on their development decisions would be something.

MCBiohazard

Damn, all good choices.

Free Radical is what id like to here about, was a fan of thier Time Splitters series

Harribo

NaughtyDog and the original Crash Bandicoot games :) Or anything NaughtyDog really - everything they touch turns to gold. PS1 era Final Fantasy games - although they may be more difficult! The beginning of the Pokemon series - the start of an era and the history up to present day? Again, probably a difficult one! The rise and fall of 3DO? With such classics as the original Might &amp; Magic games which I adored on PC. Good luck tracking people down for that one ;) I'd also quite like to see some retrospectives about particular consoles like the PS1, N64 etc - about their impact, games, what step they were in the progression of the games industry as a whole etc. I know there are videos like this out there but I don't think any would be done as well as what you could do! Or maybe even look at it from a game genre POV - the rise &amp; fall (or rise &amp; rise) of particular genres and their impact on the development of the industry.

Seeing that Fangamer has just announced a shirt for it, I'd love to know the history behind Gargoyle's Quest leading up to one of my favourite underrated Metroidvania's, Demon's Crest for the SNES. I thought that Capcom had forgotten they had it except they threw Firebrand into Marvel vs. Capcom. They could do so much more with that world! Another series would be Descent: Freespace and Freespace 2. The best space combat sims out there. There was nothing like watching the Shivans warp in to get the blood pumping and that "Oh, SHIT!" feeling.

Jay Greschner

Man a doc on 38 Studios and Kingdoms of Amalur would be super interesting! Loved that game and would be an interesting story to recount, especially with the fallout etc and now THQ Nordic buying the IP for it if I remember correctly?

I'd like to see the history of "Prince of Persia"

British games studios like bullfrog would be ace - specifically war for the overworld as part 2 with dungeon keeper as part 1. Also old sim games like sim city or Sims. Also command and conquer. Also baldurs gate. Also history of Dota, WoW, Counterstrike, team fortress 2 and etc. I think you could do like a classics retrospective, like doc series on the most influential games Nd where they influence current games

Snakeinthegarden

A story about New World Computing and the Heroes of Might and Magic-franchise (in particular HoMM3) would be amazing!

Jan Terje Bringe

big one right here

Blooper

Ion Storm specifically the original Deus Ex and the impact it had on the industry. You already have good relationships with Romero and Harvey Smith so doing an in depth retrospective/documentary on the game would be killer.

Baron Von Susscabus

Bullfrog would be really cool. Or maybe Visceral. It would be crazy cool to get a retrospective on the Dead Space games.

Nicholas Decker

I'd love to see an Historical Doc on Westwood or Origin. So many classic games that got me into the industry in the first place.

Theron Miles

Oooh good job!! I think that something looking at Nintendo’s rise, especially the first Pokémon games would be amazing - or maybe something contrasting the first God of War games to the most recent one?

Serie11

Bullfrog would be brilliant, also the company that did the Dizzy games in the UK on the spectrum.

Wing commander / Origin studios maybe?

Something in scope: Broken Sword 1&amp; 2 point and click games in England! A retrospect of their lives from 2D to 3D and back again, highs and lows etc. Would be a great one to see. Likely out of Scope: but Final Fantasy IX was largely developed in Hawaii and had US devs work on it too. Other games i would like to see documented: - HOMEWORLD - C&amp;C/Westwood studios - Medal of Honor PS1 team and how they look at how it eventually evolved into CoD.

Vin Hill

Yay! Westwood or Telltale would be my vote. One would probably be easier to do logistically ... considering.

Danger

Now would be a great time to ask - Whatever happened to Zork? With today's technology, what would the old Infocom games look like?

Rob Curran

Any classic UK games company. For example, Psygnosis, the creators of Lemmings.

Daniel Renshaw

Would absolutely love to see a doc about Westwood and all the cool games they made . Actually tried to get my hand on a copy of Dune2000 a few days ago with little luck and i was a big fan of the early C&amp;C games. Always wanted to find out where they got the idea for the hammy acting in the cut-scenes of the old C&amp;C games .

I think it is sadly a perfect moment to capture the Telltale story - your docs can be the ultimate source of inspiration for the future storytellers in the industry! Maxis is also one of my faves

Odd considering that the studio itself is physically around, but I would like to see a Doc on Bioware from it's early days till Neverwinter Nights (Or Mass Effect 1, as that seemed like the true end of Original Bioware).

Michael 'Kikin Rad' Corless

BioWare in regards to Baldur's Gate, Jade Empire, KOTOR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, etc. would be super interesting though potentially difficult with EA and them still developing games. Talking to the doctors would be fascinating.

Nick E

Congratulations, by the way!

Blooper

If we're talking old iconic titles, I'd love one about a big 90s Nintendo title. A Link to the Past, Pokemon Red/Blue, Super Mario World, I'd love any tales the dev have to tell about those games that are still remembered fondly. When it comes to shuttered studios, it'd be either Clover getting shut down and the ex-devs transforming into Platinum Games, or the whole 38 studios collapse. That was such a bizarre story in the news at the time.

Blooper

How about Sleeping Dogs from United Front Games? Could be also fun to get some history on what happened to the company too. SD had a pretty tumultuous development (cancelling with one publisher only to get picked up and finished by another) so I think it would be an interesting story.

Seth Powell

Westwood or Maxis would be awesome. Two great studios, killed by EA. Sierra too with their game library...man there's quite a few isn't there?

Robb Twomey Dunphy

You've talked to John Romero, which was amazing. It would be great if you talked with John Carmack as well. Both dudes are legends.

Something classic from Nintendo would be amazing, but I doubt they're as open as other studios. LoZ OoT would be really cool!

Sierra with the king’s quest and leisure suit larry games, looking glass with the system shock games, bullfrog with the syndicate- or magic carpet games. But the oddworld inhabitants is my favorite! Also because they still have plans to expand this oddworld and i find the games really appealing.

I would love to see something on Westwood Studios and their contribution to the modern RTS genre. LucasArts would he a close second.

Congratulations Danny and Noclip team! My vote is definitely for Maxis. The story about how The Sims came together despite EA wanting to shut it down just before its release is really something. Also, what's Will Wright up to these days?

William Molls

Simple idea it may be, but I'd love to see something on Final Fantasy VII, perhaps a longer term project though that could be done in conjunction with the remake? If your magic powers of persuasion stretch so far that is!

Innes Rock

I'm going to pitch in a vote for a look at Colony Wars and what happened to Psygnosis.

Least Action Jackson

I would love to hear what happened to Bungie West and its developers and hear their story of the development of Oni

Anything old school Lucasarts gets my vote. A look at Tie Fighter or Dark Forces would be amazing.

Andrew Rachuig

Seeing a Westwood historical doc from NoClip would be a dream come true! I'm bumping up pledge right now

Seth Spaulding

I would love a look at Irrationnal Games and the Bioshock series.

I'm going to be super basic and request a historical doc on the making of Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9. Pumping out 3 classic Playstation JRPGs in 4 years might have some interesting stories.

The history of Looking Glass Studios and its influence on the industry would be interesting too. <a href="http://gambit.mit.edu/updates/audio/looking_glass_studios_podcast/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://gambit.mit.edu/updates/audio/looking_glass_studios_podcast/</a>

Factor 5 would be a really interesting studio to focus on. They worked on the excellent Star Wars Rogue Squadron games which were also very technically impressive at the time, and also developed audio tools for Nintendo consoles. I believe their last big game was Lair, which should have some interesting stories around its development as well!

Damian Esteves

Also Piranha Bytes Gothic might be an interesting lesser known series that would be interesting to cover, which while largely unknown outside Europe heavily influenced a series you might know called The Witcher... <a href="https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/7/16985526/the-witcher-3-owes-gothic-series-vide-documentary-subtitles" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/7/16985526/the-witcher-3-owes-gothic-series-vide-documentary-subtitles</a>

Maybe an interview with Tom Dubois? He did a lot of the box art for NES and SNES games in the 80's and 90's, like a lot of Konami's games. Or maybe a doc about game box art in general back then? I'd love to hear the story for why someone thought the US box art for Mega Man was a good idea.

Tim Pedersen

One that I already posted was about my favorite studio: the rise and fall of Ensemble Studios. Jason Schreier wrote in parts about it in his book, but only covered the story of Halo Wars and the end of ES, but not the early days of Age of Empires and so on.

Sokar

Revolution Studios and the history of the point and click adventure would be really cool.

Nik Mortimer

Timesplitters! They were great, studio closed, IP tossed around, and recently purchased again. I don't know how much material you could dig up, but anything about TS 4 development by any of its parents, and a reminder of how crazy/arcady some of those games used to be, would be amazing.

+1 for Lucasarts. And if you want to go real historical maybe The Bitmap Brothers

James Bowman

For closed studios, Visceral (Though Mr. Schreier already covered that pretty well), Pandemic, and I'm a sucker for LucasArts as well.

Brandon K Gann

My mind immediately wants something on Ocarina of Time or Majoras Mask.. maybe asking too much with those. Congrats Danny, excited to see whatever historical documentaries come out! On to the next goal!

Tory Thompson

The story of Twisted Metal could be interesting, I grew up playing a lot of TM2 on Playstaion. Considering this was Sony's first console it would be interesting to learn what made them trust the devolpers to make a fairly mature exclusive game for their console. We could also learn why it ended up in the hands of 989 Studios for part 3&amp;4 which I personally didn't enjoy at all.

Gabriel Costa (Hired Sword)

I'd love to see something on the old Sierra series Quest for Glory (originally Hero's Quest) and maybe Space Quest or just even the rise/fall of Sierra and how they competed with classic Lucas Arts

An interesting one could be the missed opportunity of Games Workshop when Blizzard approached them leading to the plethora of computer game titles that have been released with a Warhammer/Games Workshop logo on and the influence of board games on computer games as well as vice versa?

James Hilton

Congrats on the new high. I would love to see docs on Maxi's, the command and conquer series, Lion Head or the first 2 knights of the old republic games. Better yet ninja theory and heavenly sword. I love that game and it's use of the sixaxis to guide arrows. Or the history of E3 and it's trijectory as a public show. Ooooo or giant bomb

Josh Daniels

Congratulations Danny. That's great news! I'd personally my to go way back. Perhaps that's something about the rise and fall of the arcade (maybe look at Midway and some of the games they released as arcade boxes), or maybe look at the Atari 2600 and how it changed the industry (look at some of the more prominent studios in North America that made some of those early games). I feel like there's an entire generation of gamers who didn't play back then and would appreciate seeing the early days, the evolutions, and why games are what they are today.

Derek Rawlings

Danny, congrats on hitting the new goal! I would love to learn more about what happened to Agent. I remember Sony talking it up for seemingly 3 Electronic Triples, and then it just disappeared to the ether without ever being officially cancelled that I can recall. Did it just get vandalized by other games doing its ideas better? Sony just give up on it? Too realistic and actual spies shut it down?

I'd like to see a documentary on the history of Rare, and of course Valve (although I know this may not be possible).

deleted-ashbash

For once I'm not the only one chiming in on this series. I would raise my pledge to the top tier for this doc alone. Interviews with Dennis Dyack and Amy Hennig, the tremendous voice cast (those that are still with us). I'd love to hear more details on how they turned a cancelled game into Blood Omen 2. Also any details that haven't already been revealed about the games that never made it out, like The Dark Phophecy or Dead Sun, as well as any potential hope for the future of the series, whatever that may be at this point.

Tim Pedersen

Hi Danny I would very much appreciate a long form documentary on the video game Bomberman: Act Zero. Keep up the great work!

Kind of weird suggestion, but perhaps instead of documenting a game/studio specifically, you did something more topical. For example, the craze about video game violence in the early 90's; how industry crashed with ET and revived itself with Mario; the tried unity of Nintendo and Sony. These are already very well documented, but the idea is to do something focused on culture, politics, and evolution rather than development. Anything you do though will be great! Keep it all up!

It would be remiss if I didn't say it once; Pro Evo. I love it, you love it - given where it was and what it faces now with EA's seeminly unlimited pile of money, I think there's more than enough to dive in to. PS. Keep going - I want to watch a noclip TV channel one day.

I would love to see a doc about Looking Glass, as it basically created the immersive sim and was the starting point for several key developers who moved on to Irrational, Ion Storm, and Arkane. Irrational itself would also be an interesting topic.

Josh Squires

Westwood gets a vote from me. Also how about Bitmap Brothers? Nothing like a bit of old school platforming!

Halflife would be great. Obviously you love the game, but also it was such a groudbreaking game Im sure it would be a great story.

May sound like a broken record here, but the game I would like to see the most is Warcraft Adventures. It was never finished and as I was tracking down its story for historical purposes, it is a very interesting thing with some Russian developers taking the animation reigns in late 90's and ultimately releasing the "final" version that's been available on the internets. Someone pointed it out already, but a doc on Too Human (game being announced on original PS1, going through GameCube and finally being released on 360, then being taken down the store shelves after the SK/Epic dispute over engine) would be a very welcomed one. Westwood/Maxis would be super great. Mainly because of my nostalgia for those games. Scavenger development team, which made Scorcher racing game and was creating Into the Shadows as it was shut down would be a nice story to hear, although it closed down in 1997 and was never heard from ever since, so that would be a hard one. And finally, a small thing on Limbo of the Lost would be nice, purely because of how bizarre the whole game and the development was. Whoa, hope I didn't put too many things on a plate here :) Also, congratulations Danny! :)

Lionhead Studios would be good. A lot of interesting things including; Starting with Peter Molyneux and Bullfrog. Leading into Lionhead, Fable and Microsofts acquisition. Could branch into Media Molecule and 22cans. Then into the troubles of Fable Legends.

Gamespot once did an incredible article on the rise and fall of Trilobyte. I would find that a really interesting documentary story.

A doc on the Legacy of Kain series would be amazing. Some really bizarre stuff happened as the series moved from silicon knights to Crystal dynamics. Amy Hennig somehow managed to steer it into a decent series despite all of the bizarre studio transitions. It'd be amazing to hear that story from the prolific horses mouth.

Patrick O'Connor

Naughty Dog!!

Bullfrog :) And gratz of course!

neker

Clover Studios is the only one that comes to mind for me. The makers behind Okami. But I'd be okay with whatever you guys put out.

OkabeTitor

CONGRATULATIONS! You guys deserve every cent! I think it would be interesting to do either a dive into The Neverhood for the 3(!) games they were a part of, or a spotlight on Doug TenNapel. That or an Oddworld Inhabitants one! Keep up the great work, you all.

Connor Swenke

I think a Capcom doc would also be super rad!

I was going to give a joke answer of "Rock Star ate my Hamster", which got me thinking about Codemasters, although still going. This also made me think of DNA Design, that although technically still going as Rockstar North, the original staff have left and they made some of my favourites like Lemmings and the original GTA.

Simon Skittrell

38 Studios!

Kyle Anderson

Time Warp Productions who made Giana Sisters.

Olaf

What about a doc series on point-and-click adventure games? Focusing on the LucasArts SCUMM games and Sierra's Quest games. For studio themed docs, I'd love to see Black Isle Studios and Westwood.

Jan Ivar Carlsen

Tenchu series!

Øyvind Sju Myhren

I'd love to know more about Rare Studios and the development of Goldeneye 007 to Perfect Dark as well as Banjo-Kazooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day. Their titles, along with the N64 tech really changed the landscape of games in the late 90s.

Tim Kafalas

I'd like to see a doc about looking glass studios, and especially Thief the dark project. My all time favorite game :)

Gunnar Zötl

No one Lives Forever, and it's sequel would be pretty cool to see. The whole mess on who even owns the rights now is pretty interesting.

What about Duke Nukem Forever?

Congrats, Danny! So pumped that we hit that goal. You mentioned it in your post, but I would love love to see a doc about Westwood. Those games got me into gaming, and I don't see their like existing any more. Sure, we have StarCraft, but that's a competitive RTS, not a fun one (if that makes sense).

It was suggested already, but would love to see something on the Tony Hawk soundtrack curation method and process (or the game in general). I realize there was already a bunch of videos they had in those games (3 especially) but it'd be cool to get a retrospective on those and the music.

Joe Truesdale

I want to know what the LMNO project was. Jake Kazdal worked on it and never elaborates whenever it comes up, so I assume there is some sort of legal protection around it, but, man... so curious.

Michael Wilson

Don't know if it really falls under this or how possible it would be but I'd be fascinated to see the story of the birth of PlayStation and the failed Sony/Nintendo collaboration that ushered in a new era of gaming.

Maybe this is something that's been tackled before elsewhere, but the history and legacy of Looking Glass Studios could be really interesting, especially with immersive sims seeing a tiny resurgence these days. Plus you'd get a chance to look at the side stories of studios like Irrational, Arkane, and Ion Storm.

Scott Mendenko

Totally. Full throttle as well! :)

All those ones you suggested. Origin Systems too for the Ultima and Wing Commander series. Something on the 1990s shareware games scene in general would be fascinating too. If you want to go really obscure I'd love to see one on Cryo who made what I consider the best Dune game (1992's "Dune"), and certainly one of the best game soundtracks in "Spice Opera", the soundtrack to the aforementioned game. It's part RPG adventure, part strategy. It was really ahead of its time. It'd be really interesting to hear how they felt about being overshadowed by the Westwood RTS Dune games. Cryo also made by far the worst Dune game (2001's "Frank Herbert's Dune") which unfortunately led to the closure of their studio so it'd be an interesting rise and fall story.

Greg

Id love to see a Doc on OCEAN, they were a big part of moat older games lives years ago..

Fill3rup_

I already suggested it on twitter but I would LOVE a doc about Beyond Good And Evil! I have so many great memories of this game! Congrats on reaching the first objective!

Spare

I mentioned this on Twitter, but I’ll say it again. Shadow of the Colossus. It’s a great game, a technical feat, a game people are still digging into to find cut content, Colossi the team prototyped, etc. There are people who developed special tools just to take a deeper look into the game. Also there’s Ueda. A person who has built a style and aesthetic across multiple games. A person who had a game trapped in development hell for, what, a decade. A person who is now an independent developer in Japan. I think there’s a lot of different aspects you could go into with that game, the community, and Ueda.

Michael

I don't know if it counts as "historical" but Mass Effect 1 is 11 years old so I imagine a lot of the original people involved have left BioWare

Congrats! All I’ve ever wanted is a documentary on Wipeout! Please track down the ex members from Psygnosis/Studio Liverpool and make this happen Danny!

Terry Jeffs

Congratulations!! I can't wait to see what you come up with. I'd throw my hat into the ring for Ion Storm -- the original Deus Ex would be super interesting to hear about

Black Isle and the original Fallouts.

Hey Danny, I think a documentary about how Mortal Kombat came about with Ed Boone and the guys would be super interesting, being that they arguably led the way for violent games in the 90's. Congrats on all your success!!

Congrats!!! I’d love to see something about LucasArts and especially the Monkey Island series and Grim Fandango. Such an interesting subject, where the artistic pinnacle of a genre overlapped completely with the demise of the genre commercially. Plus there where some really amazing people involved. That would be my wish, but I have a feeling you have had the same thought yourself.

Neversoft maybe? I'm thinking a doc on all the old Tony Hawk games + the awesome music soundtracks used for those games.

Joseph McNally

Yes! Westwood!

Vsevolod Zubarev

Seeing LucasArts in the post makes me want a Dark Forces/Jedi Knight documentary. The amount of games that studio produced, I imagine there are many stories to tell.

Westwood Studios! How the studio formed, their rise and leading into the M&amp;A by EA. Also, LucasArts and Bioware would be amazing choices too!

Stephen Ellis

Would love to throw Humongous Entertainment into the mix. Think they played a major part in a lot of lives.

Hell yeah, congrats!! I'd love to see some dives into BioWare if possible. They make my favourite games, and it's be interesting to hear about all the Dragon Age and Mass Effect things we can know about. Obviously I'm sure EA is gonna be a problem there, but one can wish.

Viktor Engholm

I would love a doc on Humanhead Studios and the cancelled Prey 2 space bounty hunter game

Vova SparksV

Would love to see something about Sony Cambridge (Guerrilla Cambridge) and the MediEvil games :) The franchise will celebrate its 20th anniversary this october :)

Hi Danny, I'd love a good look behind the scenes of the LucasArts point-and-click adventures!

Andy Latham

Westwood studios would be gold... Personally I'd like a look into the 1st 2 Age of Empires

trxx1836

Westwood! Absolutely would love to see Westwood, they created the games of my childhood. I still play their games every few months.

Quinn_Town

Yaaay! For me it's definitely the Black &amp; White series! My all-time favorite!

Lars Aass Olsen

Would love a historical dive into my all time favorite series: Castlevania!


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