Zitat von Game Development in 1997
What’s cooking today boys and girls? Well, let me tell you a story. One that has been recounted in many a pub over the years by original Stainless employees and by madman Tony – but which nobody really ever believes is true. But it is, and I have the videos to prove it.
When we started developing Carma, we decided that we needed to know what it looked like when somebody was run over. We weren’t using motion capture as we couldn’t afford that, or rotoscoping, or anything fancy. But them there artists wanted what they call ‘Reference’.
In reality I think we all knew that it was just an excuse to piss about rather than work for a day, but nobody was willing to admit this to anybody else and thus spoil the fun.
At the time I was driving a two-and-a-half ton Chevrolet Caprice station wagon – 5.7 litres of American style-assassination. (Which of course made it into the game too.) So we politely asked Tony if he would mind awfully if we went into the large empty coach park across the road from our office. And repeatedly run him over with the yank tank whilst filming it.
Naturally Tony didn’t hesitate for a moment before agreeing. However being such a sane and safety-conscious individual, he did insist on a fully professional level of body protection before proceeding: He stuffed a few pieces of corrugated cardboard down his sleeves and trousers. No he actually did this. See what I mean about the story not sounding believable? ...
At this point a police car turned up. The car park was overlooked by some houses a few hundred yards away, and somebody had called the police to report “There’s a car in the car park running somebody over! Again and again!”. The police, who of course in 1997 knew about as much about the existence of video games as they did about general relativity and the struggle for convergence with quantum theory, really didn’t know how to handle it. But the camera on a tripod seemed to placate them – as well as the ‘victim’ insisting that he was absolutely fine with continuing to be run over. So off they crept in their jam sandwich to try to find one of the Isle of Wight’s five black men to frame for cow molesting or something.
So, back to filming it was, with an array of net curtains twitching on the horizon. Now came the golden moment though, as Tony said to Nobby, who was driving my tank, “Hit me harder – I want to try to clear the roof”. Not a sensible thing to say really. So Nobby took a run up, and hit him at 35mph.
Unfortunately, due to the laws of physics, this did not send Tony flying over the top of the car, but instead, he went straight through the windscreen. Much to the surprise of Tez, who was sat in the passenger seat filming at the time. Clean underwear please!
Of course Tony was completely unfazed, but the car’s screen looked like it had been hit by a.... well.... by a person to be honest. At this point the Lead Programmer of Argonaut turned up who was coming down to work on-site on the rendering tech we had licensed from them. He got out of his car to find himself trapped in a Roger Corman dream sequence – it wasn’t the scene he was used to when coming to developers, which usually consisted of Unix printouts and cold pizza...
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