Making the Game: Comm Characters (February 12, 2009)

[Bandit LOAF]

Today is the first of several documents used to develop Wing Commander Prophecy's communications system. This is a list of all the comm voices used by the game. Most fascinating is the ranks for each pilot - these weren't even included in the official guide! (Note that a voice is assigned to the TCS Eisen... sadly, that didn't make it into the game.)

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Comm Characters
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Date: March 25, 1997
Project: Wing Commander Prophecy
Donated By: John Guentzel
Pages: 3

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Original update published on February 12, 2009

 

[Mekt-Hakkikt]

Jay, Goblin - my favourite Redshirt - is a Colonel!

Spyder is the only one that didn't get one? Because the guide has a rank for him...(Major)

 

[ChrisReid]

This document is nine months prior to the release of the game. Anything that later showed up in the guide would count.

 

[Mekt-Hakkikt]

Ok, I just found it weird that Spyder was the one with no rank, I always thought he would be one of the most fleshed out characters from the beginning.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

In all likelyhood, they just didn't remember which pin he'd worn in the film shoot and didn't have some way to quickly check like we do today.

 

[Mekt-Hakkikt]

Yeah, maybe. I mean, I have to keep in mind that they probably do not care that much about it as I do.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

I think it's more that, from a game mechanics standpoint, the ranks for the characters labeled "Principal" don't matter for how the game functions. They function differently than the redshirts.