Greek Game Dev Interviews: #9. James Spanos (of "Wormwood Studios" fame)

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Published on July 3, 2022 2:00:04 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDoSDcE0yq8

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Primordia (2012)

Duration: 1:18:56

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In our 9th interview with a Greek Game Dev, we are talking to James Spanos, who programmed the adventure games "Primordia" and "Strangeland" as part of "Wormwood Studios".
In our lengthier interview yet, he talks to us about Wormwood Studios, AGS game engine, programming languages, how it is working with Zok and... tank dating!

Chapters:
00:00 Wormwood Studios: Beginning and Games
05:57 Strangeland: An analysis
07:46 Mark One & Westwood Shadows
12:13 What is J.Spanos doing these days
15:41 AGS, Adventures & what Wormwood does at the moment
25:47 Working with Zok
30:01 AGS and other Engines
38:45 The first success, Steam Greenlight & Pixel Art
43:30 Zok, Textures and Music-SFX
52:24 Strangeland: Controversies & Innuendos
57:52 Nowadays & Retro Games
1:03:39 Teamwork & Vision
1:10:02 Programming Languages & Tanks Dating
1:14:12 Advice & Outro

This interview took place at 6th June 2022.
You can find his music at Bandcamp:
https://jamespanos.bandcamp.com/