therealchuckcarter

RA 2 is my favorite and was my favorite to work on. As for why they aren't so popular - just a lot more games out there and these things cycle through the years... some day they will come back.

Internet plays a huge role in our ability to make and distribute our games. In most parts of Maine we would not be able to do what we do. There is no real bandwidth in most of Maine. Not the kind we need to upload and down load gigabytes worth of files. Our company is in a University based technology park designed for star-ups like us - with super fast fiberoptic. We moved from Downtown Bangor after months of trying to figure out with the local providers how to get even small files uploaded cleanly. I'm talking 25 Megabytes or smaller... which would stall and choke. It was frustrating. But the one positive note is that with some of the local and state wide political leaders Like Angus King and local officials in Bangor - there is a concerted effort to get past all of the hurdles put up by the large cable companies and try to get broadband into more and more locations. So things are slowly looking up.

Myst would be the obvious answer - thought the C&C games spawned entire industries around RTS development - Westwood Studios deserves a lot of credit for that. As does Rand and Robyn Miller for the Myst franchise and opening the doors to a new level of graphic developments that are still with us today.

Pretty well - I've been doing this for a while and know how to make that translation artistically. The technology like Unreal Engine help get these ideas into a an actual playable game. I have lots of outlets and ideas!

Inspiration comes from lots of sources - children's books - Shaun tan is a current favorite - John Harris as an illustrator - walking on the beaches of Maine and climbing the rocks - going online and collecting some truly amazing art for my Pinterest page - so many things out there- urban explorations in old deserted buildings and structures, online photos of deserted or strange place - science - as for Myst - it was just anything I could dig up from my imagination.