In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the release of Aliens vs. Predator: Extinction, we’ve uploaded the 167th and 168th episodes of the Alien vs. Predator Galaxy Podcast for your auditory pleasure! In episode #167 Corporal Hicks and RidgeTop are joined by Darkness for his podcast debut to revisit our early impressions of Aliens vs. Predator: Extinction and how those thoughts have changed over time.
For episode #168 we were able to track down three of the people who made the game a reality – Lead designer Jason Hough, lead artist Brian Collins and producer Mike Arkin – to discuss the development of the game.
We discuss the initial pitch, what happened to multiplayer, that one particular guy at 20th Century Fox who made the development a struggle, how Fox had suggested turning the game into APC racing and plenty more!
During the interview, Jason Hough mentions a novel called You, written by Austin Grossman, as something he recommends to people interested in knowing what developer life was like when they were working on the game. You can find it for purchase on Amazon.
If you want to find out more about our guests in this episode, you can visit JasonHough.com to learn more about Jason and the novels he went on to write following his career in game development. You can also follow Mike Arkin on Twitter.
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Quite the bar to surpass.
The year is 2027, and AI advancements have allowed Cameron to work on his Avatar films and other franchises simultaneously. After announcing a triumphant return to the Aliens franchise, as he repeatedly calls it in interviews, he works in near total secrecy for three years, finally unveiling his masterpiece: A sequel to Aliens where a crippled Dwayne Hicks uses advanced technology to upload his consciousness into a cloned Engineer body, infiltrating their society.
I hope the new Alien stuff gets consider good by normies so the "muh Aliens, muh Cameron" shit dies.
Oh, the guy, Mike, I think asked Ridgetop if Jim Cameron was involved with the new Alien series and film and when Ridgetop answered 'no', Mike immediately said 'disaster'.
It's a huge shame we never got that multiplayer. I loved the concept of the Predator player just jumping into other people's sessions. Sounds like it could have been so interesting! Same for the multi-tiered fighting too.
Thanks! It's very much appreciated. A lot of damn effort goes into every one we do.
We had one of the AvP2 developers back on for our 100th episode!
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2020/01/13/inspiring-terror-interview-with-aliens-vs-predator-2-developer-nathan-cheever-avp-galaxy-podcast-100/
I did try to get one of the Fox Interactive producer from this era on, but I can't remember why that never happened.
Remind me? I can't remember what was said here.
Oh one of the guys on the interview episode said it and it made me laugh so hard.
PS - Sorry to any Bolton based people who wanted to rent the single copy of Extinction on Xbox that the town centre Blockbuster had, I worked there and had it on continuous staff rental for about 6 months, soz.
PPS - I never got round to completing it either...
Here's my transcription of the interview for people who want to read it.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/website/interviews/zono-avp-extinction/
I'm all in.