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Wasn't the last one Keith's? I know that he already wasn't told a number of things like character names or specific dates.

Some of the animation in Academy is rough, especially compared to stuff from the money-flush 80s, but the basic designs and above all the storyboarding and direction are fantastic. I always ended up comparing it to other series from that era and before so it's great that the people working on...

RIP. I hate how often this is happening nowadays. It feels like we're losing someone every other month, even though most of the developers are still in their sixties.

False Colors goes into the repercussions a bit more, where Admiral Richards explains to Bear that the Confederation is treating the Kilrathi delicately, though he also immediately adds that it wasn't genocide, even if it was "pretty close". I always was disappointed that Keith died and left the...

Regarding the Leningrad, I always imagined the name came from the battle, rather than the place name, which would track with the other names we see (Agincourt, Bastille, Gettysburg). The name change happened in mid-1991 which would have given Freedom Flight more than enough time to make the...

After 20+ years - Wikipedia tried to push the spelling in 2001, along with "Moskva" (also a Wing Commander carrier!), gave up and then retried again a few years ago.

Is it true that the Morningstar was originally developed for Strike Commander? It sounds like an urban legend but I haven't been able to find anything about it I did find this though which seems worth posting again:

Thanks for that. I always thought it was a shame that P2 was released right before 3D acceleration support became standard. I-War used the same engine but had 3Dfx support, as of course did Prophecy around the same time. The engine is quite good and it's been open sourced but IIRC we don't have...

Years ago I bought a book by Paul Steed on low-poly modeling (it was when he was still alive so it must have been almost fifteen years ago.) I remember wondering at the time whether it would ever be of use to anyone ever again, since at the time the trend was toward higher poly and detail...

It's still standard practice today, isn't it? But I remember reading somewhere that the art team kept having to redo the engine models over and over because the ships were still too high poly. Michael Paul (sorry) Cottam seems to back that up. Maybe it was done for memory purposes? One set of...

It also resembles a swastika; not that Origin would admit that even if that was their intent (which I rather doubt). Actually, what it reminds me of is the square-sided Finnish roundel, which predates the Nazis and was painted on their planes to the end of World War II. More than the shape...

Someone―I think it was Michael Ian Cottam but it might also have been Paul Hughes―mentioned that when making the real-time ship models they had to go through several layers of optimization, culling tris and detail until they got a model the engine could work with. It also explains some technical...

Billy Zane, who got his start as part of Tom Wilson's gang in Back to the Future.

Wasn't David Warner in Titanic as well?

This is a tough one. I voted for HCl because of how important he was to the early modding projects and what an incredible technical genius he was. I still remember him posting a photo of a notebook where he scribbled down some hex values he was decoding while on vacation at the beach, as a...

Jay Anthony Franke, who voiced the main character in Deus Ex, also worked in quality assurance on the game. Warren Spector must really love his QA guys! That must have been one of the last big games where developers doubled as voice actors, though in Franke's case it was a bit different because...

Wasn't the film always fairly popular among the general public? To the extent that the "general public" even knew that it existed? That was the impression I got when the subject came up in conversation (once). I guess that's the consequence of making a niche film and targeting it towards the...

I still mutter "Turn to port and steer 2-3-0" sometimes, apropos of nothing. Will you be watching 12 O'Clock High? That seems like it would be worth it if only for the line from Gregory Peck about being "already dead".

Thanks for this. I remember the 'intell' spelling and found it a bit odd later but never knew where it came from. Was this a directive from Intel or something done voluntarily? I've had the same PC for almost fifteen years and I can still play a fair number of modern games, there's absolutely...

RIP, all of the actors are getting up there I guess. We almost never hear about dub actors, I know at least the Japanese voice for Shotglass in the MegaDrive port died some years ago (he was a big shot that voiced the original Space Battleship Yamato, among other things). Do all of the foreign...