Re: Brutal Deluxe's holidays project 2: Sword of Sodan (behind the scene)

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Aug 20, 12:37 pm, Mitchell Spector <mitch...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Toinet <antoine.vig...@laposte.net> wrote:
> >In order to make it "nice", I contacted the original author on
> >sodan.dk, he replied he had kept nothing on the game. Therefore, the
> >additional images and sounds have been gathered from the long play of
> >SoS on youtube.com and from WinUAE, a well-known Amiga emulator.
>
>     Are you referring to Scott Patterson? I was told the same story when
> I contacted him about 15 years ago. However it's important to know,
> before its cancellation, Discovery Software passed the project over to
> another programmer who continued the work.
>
>     That programmer was Jimmy Huey, who already programmed other
> Apple II software titles (e.g. Calfornia Games GS, Epyx's Print Magic).
> I contact Jimmy around the same time period and learned he still had
> all the original source code and a playable, compiled version of Sword
> of Sodan. I'll have to dig through my e-mail archives, but I recall him
> saying 70% of the game was complete although it crashed quite often.
> I asked, begged and pleaded, but he stood by the NDA he signed with
> Discovery Software and wouldn't release it.
>
>     The other part of the story is I found two beta testers who had the
> compiled alpha-version of the game, but they too were sticking to
> the NDA. All except one, who offered to sell me the disk(s). That
> person was Jeff Barbanell. I think the better choice here is contacting
> Jimmy Huey again (I do have his e-mail and mailing address in California,
> but this goes back to 1997!). I can't imagine it being that difficult to find
> him again.
>
>     Incidentally, this project by Brutal Deluxe really caught my interest!
> I don't even lurk comp.sys.apple2 anymore, but just decided to tonight
> and seeing that game title in the subject name drew me in! Sure it's
> 20 years later, but I'd still be thrilled to pieces to see more of Sword of
> Sodan on the IIgs! :)
>
> On a related note, I captured the IIgs demo version and posted it
> to YouTube (I'd like to capture a higher quality version if I can find
> a proper composite adapter cable for my Hauppage card)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNcuXo3owi4
>
> Mitchell Spector

Mitchell,

I just did a quick Google on "Jimmy Huey", and turned up the following
(the 3rd hit):
http://www.ministryofthought.com/rzjim.html

Sure sounds like the same Jimmy Huey to me...  :-)

Cheers,
Mike