I had to make another trip to Redding and was glad that the temps had cooled down. Randy and I were in Redding a few days ago and it was 80 fucking degrees. In February. Trees are blossoming all over the place.
Today was to do a video interview for a documentary about Sierra On-Line. It’s a big project that was crowdfunded last year. It was an extremely nice crew of Canadians. On this swing through the western states, they’re interviewing me, Mark Crowe, Lori and Corey Cole, Jim Walls, and I’m not sure who else. It was a detailed and thorough interview and I look forward to seeing the final result.
#MarxToot #SierraOnLine #ConquestsOfCamelot #ConquestsOfTheLongbow
Nice to see both of my Sierra On-Line games on this list, and Longbow at #2.
https://www.destructoid.com/10-best-sierra-adventure-games/
#MarxToot #SierraOnLine #ConquestsOfCamelot #ConquestsOfTheLongbow #adventureGames
See the post below for further examples of "fylfots" that were cut from Conquests of Camelot before release:
https://mastodon.social/@atmcashpoint/112154022360643537
Some more swastikas that were cut from Conquests of Camelot before release: the corner emblems in Merlin's closeup in the intro.
Again, I doubt artist Peter Ledger meant these in anything other than the ancient "sun symbol" sense, but the change is understandable.
Source: Sierra's 1989 video catalog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSieu6okkOo
Interior art from Sierra News Magazine vol. 3 # 1 (Spring 1990) in the article on Conquests of Camelot.
Like the cover, these may have been (as @rezmason noted) painted by Bill Eaken, who soon moved from Sierra to LucasArts.
Notice the runes on Excalibur suggest his initials "BE"!
Something found by @rezmason in one of @robotspacer 's streams:
Sierra News Magazine vol. 3 #1 (Spring 1990) has a cover painting of Christy Marx for an article about Conquests of Camelot - painted by Bill Eaken in his brief time at Sierra before he moved to LucasArts!
Eaken went on to be lead artist on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and did much of the background art used in The Dig.
#sierra #lucasarts #conquestsofcamelot #adventuregames #indianajones #fateofatlantis #thedig
Here's a comparison of the early & final map screens as well. The date on the map of Britain was moved back by a century, from 900 to 800 AD, and the water on the map of Europe was changed from a parchment-yellow to blue.
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Xerardo Ancient Game Music
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