Pitch and moan Page 2

Quote: Rob B @ January 10, 2008, 7:47 PM

Like Bohannon i've also worked in the games industry. All film licenses, all all crap so don't ask!

However I was coding a stupid bmx game on the little gameboy handheld, and thought wouldn't this be excellent as "the guide" as in the actual electronic book from Hitchikers Guide. Everyone thought it was a great idea, and the boss made a pitch and we got a meeting set up with Douglas Adams software company. Being the leading gameboy developers in the UK at the time, and a big big publisher interested it looked good, and then douglas adams died and so did the game.

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I for one would like to see such a thing. Can't be as bad as the film, at any rate.

Quote: Aaron @ January 11, 2008, 10:40 AM

I for one would like to see such a thing. Can't be as bad as the film, at any rate.

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I was really sad cos it would have been fun coming up with the jokes. We'd demo'd a few screens which looked exactly like the book animation from the TV show. It was basically going to be a silly galactic encyclopedia with little mini-games. Vogon constructor fleet = asteroids etc

Sounds immense.

What would one develop a Game Boy game ON? I'd guess there's an emulator for a standard PC available, much in the same way as apps for phones and such now?

Quote: Aaron @ January 11, 2008, 2:27 PM

Sounds immense.

What would one develop a Game Boy game ON? I'd guess there's an emulator for a standard PC available, much in the same way as apps for phones and such now?

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Well I'm talking the Color Gameboy/Gameboy for '99/00 era so you'd not develop anything for it now. Did he die early '01? Perhaps you can see how annoyed I was cos I'd just done a game based on a film about a pig, then smurfs and then a stupid american bmx rider. So doing a hitchikers game oh boy!

Alternately the Nintendo DS is the best selling console in the world at the moment. More than PS3, XBox 360 or Wii.Mind you this would work just as well on a mobile, though TBH how well it might not work outside people who watched the TV show.

Back then the company had very expensive development boards call IS's that plugged into the PC. You had to buy them to be able to develop for Nintendo. However we all used PC emulators to develop.

Quote: Rob B @ January 11, 2008, 3:36 PM

Well I'm talking the Color Gameboy/Gameboy for '99/00 era so you'd not develop anything for it now.

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Well duh. I was talking theoretically!

Quote: Rob B @ January 11, 2008, 3:36 PM

I'd just done a game based on a film about a pig

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AAAAAAAAAAAHhahahahahaahahahahaahahahhahhhahahaa! I am so, so sorry.