"...you might want to have your legal department contact them because I think they’re ripping you off.”

Now that's a funny anecdote

"Years after the launch of Warcraft my dad, upon returning from a trip to Asia, gave me a present of a set of Warhammer miniatures in the form of a skeleton charioteer and horses with the comment: “I found these cool toys on my trip and they reminded me a lot of your game..."

"...but a combination of factors, including a lack of traction on business terms and a fervent desire on the part of virtually everyone else on the development team (myself included) to control our own universe nixed any potential for a deal"

"Allen Adham hoped to obtain a license to the Warhammer universe to try to increase sales by brand recognition. Warhammer was a huge inspiration for the art-style of Warcraft,..."

I just think it's funny that we indirectly owe the existance of multi-unit selection in RTS games to wine cellars

Pullquote: "Before I started in the game industry I had worked with low-end “Computer Assisted Design” (CAD) programs to design wine-cellars for my dad’s wine cellar business, so it seemed natural to use the “click & drag” rectangle-selection metaphor to round up a group of units to command."

From the tv ad: (youtu.be/xr8Tn62aW9Y?...)

Yes, i only knew his cat art too, but his comics are equally good

Also, his self portraits were excellent

Humble bundles and the like used to be kinda this up until about 2015, but they got too constant and stoppee feeling like a notable event

I just remember the initial pitch, as 'no truce with the furies', garnering an unusual amount of attention and buzz

(We'll always say yes to physical collector's editions no matter how small the runs are because we like not being tethered to the store lifespan of a console, but that's moving deeper into a niche rather than widening the appeal)

Most of the time i get to do stuff like this it's meant to blend into higher fidelity scenes in a nonintrusive way, but i'm feeling an urge to do something more consistently low spec just to have a baseline free of optimization worries

It combines geometry and cutout sprites(though using only low poly geometry can be far faster on hardware where overdraw is a major bottleneck)

Thank you! It was a pretty fun microchallenge that should be useful for getting more implied background detail in the more industrial areas