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ByWorstUsernameEver
OnFebruary 11, 2013

Joel Billings Video Interview, Part Three

The third and latest part of Matt Barton’s interview with SSI’s Joel Billings deals with the developer’s Gold Box RPG series, which was apparently pitched as a series ever since they asked for the D&D license. During the course of…

ByWorstUsernameEver
OnFebruary 4, 2013

Joel Billings Video Interview, Part Two

Matt Barton has published the second part of his Joel Billings interview (you can find the first part here). This time it covers SSI’s rise to prominence thanks to publishing and their own internal titles, how the market has changed…

ByBuckGB
OnJanuary 21, 2013

Joel Billings Video Interview, Part One

Our friend Matt Barton managed to track down Strategic Simulations, Inc. founder Joel Billings for a lengthy video interview, the first 28 minutes of which are now available as part of Matt Chat episode 181. While a significant portion of…

ByWorstUsernameEver
OnDecember 10, 2012

Eye of the Beholder Video Retrospective

For the latest episode of his Matt Chat video segments, Matt Barton has gone back to the video retrospective format and covers a beloved first-person dungeon crawler, Westwood’s AD&D-based Eye of the Beholder. Plenty of footage of the game is…

ByWorstUsernameEver
OnJanuary 17, 2012

Lousy Choices and Linear Dungeons

Jay ‘Rampant Coyote’ Barnson has written another one of his posts dedicated to role-playing game design and this time analyzes modern dungeon design and how it compares to older classic titles, using the recent and extremely successful The Elder Scrolls…

ByBuckGB
OnDecember 7, 2010

Forgotten Ruins: The Roots of CRPGs – SSI

Bitmob is taking a stab at spotlighting the 30-year history of computer role-playing games in a new series of retrospectives they’ve labeled “Forgotten Ruins”, with the very first installment covering the vast catalogue of excellent RPGs that was developed and…

ByBuckGB
OnNovember 15, 2010

Know Your Gaming Roots

Despite many glaring omissions on The Escapist’s “Know Your Gaming Roots” developer list, it’s still a reasonable read if you’d like to know more about the early days of Westwood Studios, MicroProse, Activision, and Looking Glass Studios. Westwood Studios What…