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ÌÊ    INTERVIEW WITH PGCS/ALCATRAZ
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ÉËBy Lord Helmet

ÊThe man who did the design, graphics
and  some  organising  behind one of
the biggest projects/demos last year
"Odyssey" tell you all what you ever
wanted to know about "Odyssey".

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ÈAt  what time did you start planning
the  demo?   Since some of the stuff
is  from  1990 I guess you have used
sometime?

ÉOdyssey  was  planned  for about one
year.  In fact about 10 months.  Why
so long?  We worked very hard in the
beginning   and   then,   we  worked
slowly.   When  we  heared about the
party, we decided to speed up again,
but   in  the  middle,  the  product
didn't go up very much.


ÈYour demo is quite similar to Thomas
Landspurg  'Virtual World'.  Did you
get some ideas from this demo in how
to make the Odyssey?

ÉNo  ideas  were  taken from "Virtual
World".   We  had  to do a such demo
for  a  very long time and we didn't
thought  that  anyone  else would do
such   a   demo   before   Odyssey's
release.   Anyway,  I think "Virtual
World" is easier to do than Odyssey.

ÈDid you had your vector routine with
sphere  ready before the Thomas demo
was released If yes, why did you not
release the preview before?

ÉOur spheric vector routine was ready
about  4-5 months before Thomas one.
(You  mean  4-5 months before Thomas
RELEASED  his  one  ed.)  We  didn't
thought  at  that time that somebody
would  have  the idea to make sphere
and   when  we  heard  about  Thomas
Landspurg  routine,  we  decided  to
spread   a   preview.   That  wasn't
planned,  but we weren't fast enough
and  "Virtual  World" was out in the
same time.

ÈDo  you  agree with me that the demo
didn't  contain that much new ideas.
But  it  was the design and graphics
which was so Brilliant.

ÉOf  course  I  agreee.   There's  is
quite  nothing  new.  The only thing
that  is new is the way we are using
the    different    routines.    For
example,  Vectorballs  plane  is not
better  than  galaxy system and it's
better  to  see spaceships than cube
in vector, so...

ÈDon't  you think that you could have
cutted  down  the  demo a bit.  Some
effects   is   coming   over  again.
Hadn't  it  be better to shorten the
story  a bit.  And only use the best
parts of the demo?

ÉWhen  we saw the entire demo for the
first  time,  we  have made the same
comments!   We  have  used  too much
fractal   landscape(I   agree  Ed.),
galaxy  system  and  the  trip  into
galaxy.   But we couldn't change the
story  at  that time, because we had
to be ready for the party and change
the  story  meaned too much work for
that.


ÉI  guess the demo contained a lot of
work.   Did  you do this because you
wanted do:

Êa) Impress all Amiga Owners over the
world ?

ÉImpress them?  Hmmm,...NO!  It's not
the right word.  It's better that we
wanted to show them new

ÊB) Get into the charts ?

ÉSurely  not..   I  dont  believe  in
charts.   They  are not all true and
that do not mean too much for us, so
Odyssey   was  not  made  to  be  in
charts..    But,   but...   If  you,
reader, Vote for us, I don't want to
say no!

Êc)  To  get  a  better chance to get
some work for a software company ?

ÉThat  could  be the reason.  To work
for  a  software  company,  we could
send  the demo and say " That's what
we  are  able  to do..", but as they
prefer   games  instead  of  demos..
Perhaps  it'll  be  usefull,  but it
wasn't the main objective


Êd) For FUN ?

ÉYES!   Very much FUN!  We had fun in
doing  it  and  even  much more when
everything was over

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