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Russ Wetmore started at Adventure International, where he worked with Scott Adams on Savage Island Part II. He then went on to program Preppie!, Preppie! II, and Sea Dragon - all of which were published by Adventure International - and Homepak business software, which was published by Batteries Included.
This interview took place on September 24, 2015, and then a little bit more on January 4, 2016.
After the main interview took place, Russ sent me the source code for Preppie!, Preppie! II, and Sea Dragon, plus an demonstration disk of an unfinished Atari game called Lulu. I successfully archived all of those disks and have posted them to archive.org: check the show notes at AtariPodcast.com for the disk images, plus a link to a YouTube video of the Lulu game.
Links
Game source code: archive.org/details/@savetz?and[]=russ%20wetmore
Video of Lulu: https://t.co/SuRqBrRasd
Lulu discussion and ATR download: atariage.com/forums/topic/246903-lulu-russ-wetmores-unfinished-game
AtariMania list of Russ Wetmore software: atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-wetmore-russ_team_1399_8_G.html
JavaScript version of Preppie! playmycode.com/play/game/krakatomato/preppie
Teaser quote:
“I actually only spent about 18 months writing those three games, and I probably would have done them in much sooner time, but I was 23 and lazy.”
Russ Wetmore started at Adventure International, where he worked with Scott Adams on Savage Island Part II. He then went on to program Preppie!, Preppie! II, and Sea Dragon - all of which were published by Adventure International - and Homepak business software, which was published by Batteries Included.
This interview took place on September 24, 2015, and then a little bit more on January 4, 2016.
After the main interview took place, Russ sent me the source code for Preppie!, Preppie! II, and Sea Dragon, plus an demonstration disk of an unfinished Atari game called Lulu. I successfully archived all of those disks and have posted them to archive.org: check the show notes at AtariPodcast.com for the disk images, plus a link to a YouTube video of the Lulu game.
Links
Game source code: archive.org/details/@savetz?and[]=russ%20wetmore
Video of Lulu: https://t.co/SuRqBrRasd
Lulu discussion and ATR download: atariage.com/forums/topic/246903-lulu-russ-wetmores-unfinished-game
AtariMania list of Russ Wetmore software: atarimania.com/list_games_atari-400-800-xl-xe-wetmore-russ_team_1399_8_G.html
JavaScript version of Preppie! playmycode.com/play/game/krakatomato/preppie
Teaser quote:
“I actually only spent about 18 months writing those three games, and I probably would have done them in much sooner time, but I was 23 and lazy.”
