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8) Could you share an interesting, humorous or just plain stupid anecdote from the game's development?
SM: Um, well, while writing the dialogue I had an enjoyable time coming up with 'Fiddlerisms' for Fiddlesworth, the groundskeeper. He always introduces himself with a sort of agricultural, euphemistic exclamation, such as 'pet my piglet!', 'trample my turnips!', etc. The idea was kind of nicked from Blackadder's Christmas Carol ('peel my tangerines!', 'baste my steaming puddings!'). I had a huge list and then it was a case of squeezing in the best ones without jeopardising the 'E' rating. Needless to say, some of the more dubious lines didn't make it, such as 'measure my marrow!', 'rub my radish!' and 'choke my chicken!'. I even got told to remove 'sow my seeds!'. What's wrong with that? Shame...
GM: Sorry. Amusing development anecdotes need to be downloaded for 100 MS Points each. Oh, go on then – the Cursed Mummy always brings a smile to my face.
JT: I can actually blame Ghoulies for my love of Halo. Every day after work we'd divide up and set about Blood Gulch sniping, blasting, swearing and shooting our way through match after match – it was a great team-building exercise. In fact I can remember one of the first conversations with Gregg was me offering him my sincere apologies after I’d verbally abused him for shooting me with a Scorpion tank.
GP: Could mention thousands, trying to keep it clean is going to be the problem... most of it involves Grant the musician. Don't want to upset anyone else though, so I'll go with a story at my own expense. For a split second in one of the storybook scenes there's a picture of a very young me in a nightclub harassing some poor woman we met on a Ghoulies Christmas party night. I have background artist Mr. S. Hurst to thank for that one. The picture was used as a placeholder texture in a few places and replaced eventually, but not before a storybook sequence had been accidentally rendered with the placeholder still on the wall. |
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EB: The main villain of the game was originally going to be a demon-type boss character... however, Gregg was persuaded to change him into an incompetent baron with a homemade biplane and a propeller on a stick. |
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