#159 - Randy Linden Interview (THE MAN BEHIND DOOM SNES)
Randy Linden is a legendary programmer who is best known for doing what was thought to be impossible, porting DOOM from the PC to the SNES, hes also responsible for porting Dragon's Lair to the Amiga and making Bleem an emulator for the Playstation. He is currently working for Limited Run Games.
#doom #supernintendo #snes
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TWITTER - @RandalLinden
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Being In The Industry For Over 40 Years
01:57 - Randy’s Thoughts On Zelda: Breath Of The Wild & Super Mario Odyssey
06:03 - Randy’s Standout Moment In Zelda: Breath Of The Wild
07:25 - Honing In On The Programming Aspect of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild & Super Mario Odyssey
09:50 - Zelda Inspired Randy To Improve On His Programming Skills/Writing A Program
11:34 - Why The Rocket Launcher Is More Powerful In DOOM SNES/Reverse Engineering
15:25 - Why Monster Infighting Isn’t In DOOM SNES
18:08 - Why Monsters Don’t Respawn In Nightmare Mode/Monster Speed In Nightmare/SNES Violent Games
21:59 - Guessing The AI For The Monsters/Tight Deadline For DOOM SNES
25:14 - Being In The Zone Creatively/Crunch For DOOM SNES/Managing Time Effectively
34:16 - How Randy Balances Quality Vs Quantity In Programming
36:50 - Story Of Metal Gear Solid Bug On Dreamcast
42:45 - Randy’s Terrible Diet While Working
44:26 - How To Get In The Zone
45:30 - List Of Programming Priorities/Priority On DOOM SNES
49:11 - How The Quake GBA Prototype Came About
51:21 - The Hardest & Most Misunderstood Thing About Programming
56:50 - Game Development Roles These Days Are More Specialized/AAA Development
1:01:00 - Cost Of Games
1:05:18 - Gaming Has More Value For Money Than Film/Game Studios Lay Offs
1:08:35 - Its Harder For Game Studios To Be Successful Today Than It Was In The Past
1:11:05 - Incremental Hardware Increases
1:12:06 - Sandy Peterson Never Worked On DOOM SNES
1:14:31 - E2M2 In DOOM SNES/John Coffey Level Edits That Got Rejected By ID Software/Metallic Grates
1:17:45 - Where To Follow Randy Linden/Jurassic Park
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