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Irish connections in games

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  • #62
    Peanut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Peanut


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    He told me all about the development and that Sony screwed them over, they put a lot of effort into Speed Freaks and just before E3 were told of Crash Team Racing, an almost identical racing game, there was talk of legal action as Funcom Ireland felt that a lot of their ideas were lifted wholesale into CTR, but it was never to happen and that was that, Funcom Ireland were simply shut, the offices closed with a minimum of notice.

    Anyways, he was a really interesting guy and had lots to say about game development in the late 90's, a time when Sony really were the big bad bully on the playground.

    I'm not sure how much the sales of CTR impacted on Funcom Dublin shutting down, I think Speed Freaks eventually sold about half a million copies which was pretty good as far as I know (although I'm not sure if this was short of any projections). The other thing is that the parent company in Norway was focusing more on MMORPG development at the time and shifting away from consoles for whatever reason, and the Dublin office had been pretty much exclusively console focused.


  • #63
    Azure_sky
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    London born actor and martial artist, Jonathan Patrick Foo, who play Ryu in Street fighter legacy and Jin Kazama in the live action Tekken movie is half Irish and half Chinese.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Foo


  • #64
    Gunmonkey
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    The Furbolgs in the Warcraft series are meant to be heavily influenced by Celtic druids.


  • #65
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,772 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Gunmonkey wrote: »
    The Furbolgs in the Warcraft series are meant to be heavily influenced by Celtic druids.

    That'd be the original inhabitants of Ireland you're talking about there, the Fír Bolgs.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fir_Bolg


  • #66
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    Don't forget the Havoc physics engine was developed here originally, group of lads from Trinity... Made its way to the likes of Halo, Half Life 2...


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