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Interviews
Welcome to the Amigapd interview section which has grown over the months. A big thank you to all the programmers listed below who have kindly given their time to answer questions about their games, programming history and the Amiga.
The interviews are a mixture of commerical, shareware and public domain programmers. Enjoy!
Amigan Software - Interview with the creator of Amigan Software
Wayne Ashworth - The graphic artist on the two player death match game "Renegades".
Jens Andersson and Jan Kronquist - Creators of "Gravity Power".
Lee Bamber - Talks about the classic point and click adventure games he made - "Relics of Deldroneye".
Matthias Bock - The creator behind LazyCow Games, including gems such as "Monsters of Terror" and "Mine Runner".
Mike Boeh - Interview with the author of Artillerus II and Charr - multiplayer tank combat games with lots of weapons.
Mathew Carr - creator of Gravity Beam.
David Cruikshank - The programmer of "Alien Fish Finger", "Hydrozone" and "Wired Chaos".
Glen Cumming - Interview kindly provided by EAB forum member - Glen Cumming reflects on "Alien Bash I" and II
Adrian Cummings - Mutation Software founder and creator of some wonderful platform games including "Toy Adventure".
Mattis Folkestad - Creator of point and click adventure "Madhouse".
Aaron and Adam Fothergill - Creators of some great AMOS games including Base Jumpers and Jetstrike.
Kevin Gallagher - The programmer behind the amiga versions of "Dodge Em", "Gorf", "Galaxians", "Scramble" and "Space Invasion".
Gabriele Greco- interview with the creator of "Eat the Whistle" football game.
Andrew Haywood - Game Tester of "Electrek"
Tero Heikkinen - Creator of the Fayoh platform games.
Rob Hewitt - creator of Timebomb
Paul Huckstepp - Creator of puzzle and strategy games including "Ulitmate Domination" and "Falling Down".
Chris Huelsbeck - Talks about creating music for various amiga games.
Graham Humphrey - Creator of Tank Wars - moderator of various Amiga forums and currently working on Downfall.
Darren Ithell - Creator of Dithell in Space and Dithell in Wonderland.
Iving and Brewood - Incomplete interview with creative team behind Plasma Bubble.
Marcus Johansson - Creator of Mario platform trbutes - Fayoh and Fayoh 2
Samo Jordan - Creator of horizontal shoot em up - Starbirds
Tony Kingsmill - Creator of Top of the League
Pontus Lundwall - Creator of "Brutal Homicide"
Al and Ed Mackey - Creators of the Megaball series.
Krzysztfof Matys - Creator of a new Amiga game - "Diver"
David Makin - Creator of "Crystal Dragon" and "Super Scramble" Simulator talks about his games and the Amiga.
Kalle Marjola - Creator of RPGs including "Knights" and "Fantasy Forces" describes his time working on the Amiga.
Alex May - Creator of Space Invaders classic "The Attack of the Green Smelly Aliens from Planet 27b/6"
Dave May - The creator of "Air Taxi" shares his thoughts on the game.
Andrew Morris - Part of the Magnetic Fields / Gremlin Team responsible for "Super Cars" and the "Lotus Trilogy".
Dave Parson - The programmer of wonderful platform games including "Eric" and "Morton Strikes Back".
Federico Rutenberg - Creator of the wonderful Lord of Alcandria graphic adventures.
Phil Ruston - The programmer of the "Giddy" games and "Aquanaut".
Retroguru - Creators of platform series Sqrzx.
Andreas Seebeck - Creator of many commerical games including "Aunt Artic Adventure", "Charon 5", "Hannibal" and "Space Max".
Michael Gordon Shapiro - Creator of RPG game "Zerg".
Mark Sheeky - Creator of commercial games including "Burnout" and numerous public domain games including "Overlander" and "Taskforce".
Ronnie Simpson - Creator of some great AMOS games including Arcadia and Block Buster.
Gumita Singh - Creator of "Henry's House".
Jyrki Sinivaara and Jani Finér - Creators of horror game "Damage".
Dave Townsend - Creator of wargame Bull Run.
Edgar Vigdal - The programmer of the classic shoot em up "Deluxe Galaga".
Tony Warriner - Talks about "Beneath a Steel Sky" and "Lure of the Temptress" - both now available as Freeware.
Jim Wills - Creator of "Toado" - a classic Frogger conversion.
Amy Worthington - Creator of the great platform game Mr Bean Bag
Ben Wright - Creator of "Scavenger" and "Scavenger 2"
The interviews are a mixture of commerical, shareware and public domain programmers. Enjoy!
Amigan Software - Interview with the creator of Amigan Software
Wayne Ashworth - The graphic artist on the two player death match game "Renegades".
Jens Andersson and Jan Kronquist - Creators of "Gravity Power".
Lee Bamber - Talks about the classic point and click adventure games he made - "Relics of Deldroneye".
Matthias Bock - The creator behind LazyCow Games, including gems such as "Monsters of Terror" and "Mine Runner".
Mike Boeh - Interview with the author of Artillerus II and Charr - multiplayer tank combat games with lots of weapons.
Mathew Carr - creator of Gravity Beam.
David Cruikshank - The programmer of "Alien Fish Finger", "Hydrozone" and "Wired Chaos".
Glen Cumming - Interview kindly provided by EAB forum member - Glen Cumming reflects on "Alien Bash I" and II
Adrian Cummings - Mutation Software founder and creator of some wonderful platform games including "Toy Adventure".
Mattis Folkestad - Creator of point and click adventure "Madhouse".
Aaron and Adam Fothergill - Creators of some great AMOS games including Base Jumpers and Jetstrike.
Kevin Gallagher - The programmer behind the amiga versions of "Dodge Em", "Gorf", "Galaxians", "Scramble" and "Space Invasion".
Gabriele Greco- interview with the creator of "Eat the Whistle" football game.
Andrew Haywood - Game Tester of "Electrek"
Tero Heikkinen - Creator of the Fayoh platform games.
Rob Hewitt - creator of Timebomb
Paul Huckstepp - Creator of puzzle and strategy games including "Ulitmate Domination" and "Falling Down".
Chris Huelsbeck - Talks about creating music for various amiga games.
Graham Humphrey - Creator of Tank Wars - moderator of various Amiga forums and currently working on Downfall.
Darren Ithell - Creator of Dithell in Space and Dithell in Wonderland.
Iving and Brewood - Incomplete interview with creative team behind Plasma Bubble.
Marcus Johansson - Creator of Mario platform trbutes - Fayoh and Fayoh 2
Samo Jordan - Creator of horizontal shoot em up - Starbirds
Tony Kingsmill - Creator of Top of the League
Pontus Lundwall - Creator of "Brutal Homicide"
Al and Ed Mackey - Creators of the Megaball series.
Krzysztfof Matys - Creator of a new Amiga game - "Diver"
David Makin - Creator of "Crystal Dragon" and "Super Scramble" Simulator talks about his games and the Amiga.
Kalle Marjola - Creator of RPGs including "Knights" and "Fantasy Forces" describes his time working on the Amiga.
Alex May - Creator of Space Invaders classic "The Attack of the Green Smelly Aliens from Planet 27b/6"
Dave May - The creator of "Air Taxi" shares his thoughts on the game.
Andrew Morris - Part of the Magnetic Fields / Gremlin Team responsible for "Super Cars" and the "Lotus Trilogy".
Dave Parson - The programmer of wonderful platform games including "Eric" and "Morton Strikes Back".
Federico Rutenberg - Creator of the wonderful Lord of Alcandria graphic adventures.
Phil Ruston - The programmer of the "Giddy" games and "Aquanaut".
Retroguru - Creators of platform series Sqrzx.
Andreas Seebeck - Creator of many commerical games including "Aunt Artic Adventure", "Charon 5", "Hannibal" and "Space Max".
Michael Gordon Shapiro - Creator of RPG game "Zerg".
Mark Sheeky - Creator of commercial games including "Burnout" and numerous public domain games including "Overlander" and "Taskforce".
Ronnie Simpson - Creator of some great AMOS games including Arcadia and Block Buster.
Gumita Singh - Creator of "Henry's House".
Jyrki Sinivaara and Jani Finér - Creators of horror game "Damage".
Dave Townsend - Creator of wargame Bull Run.
Edgar Vigdal - The programmer of the classic shoot em up "Deluxe Galaga".
Tony Warriner - Talks about "Beneath a Steel Sky" and "Lure of the Temptress" - both now available as Freeware.
Jim Wills - Creator of "Toado" - a classic Frogger conversion.
Amy Worthington - Creator of the great platform game Mr Bean Bag
Ben Wright - Creator of "Scavenger" and "Scavenger 2"
Other Interviews available on the Web
Whilst AmigaPd's interviews focus on Public Domain / Shareware programmers or commercial programmers who have now made their games Freeware - other websites have interviews with commercial Amiga Programmers. These are listed below:
Interviews by CodeTapper
CodeTappers' Retro Site has some wonderful and very detailed interviews with the following programmers:
Ian Moran - Well known for his slick Amiga games Midnight Resistance and RoboCop 2
Chris Sorrell - James Pond, Robocod and Operation Starfi5h.
Peter Johnson - responsible for the Amiga versions of Wizball, Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, Arkanoid 2, Robocop and Morph
Keith Watterson - Creator of puzzle game Push Over.
Mick West - Coded Parasol Stars.
Rob Northen - Created copy protection used on over 500 amiga games.
Interviews by Lemon Amiga
There are also two interviews on the Lemon Amiga Website
Martyn Brown - Founder of Team 17
Andreas Axelsson Creator of Pinball Dreams
Martyn Brown - Founder of Team 17
Andreas Axelsson Creator of Pinball Dreams
Interviews by Amiga Games That Weren't
Amiga Games That Weren't is a website dedicated to Amiga Games which unfortunately never got released. Some of the programmers involved with these games have been interviewed.
Nick Lee - Putty Squad
Dante Profeta - Agricola
Alistair M. Robinson - Airwolf
Rabah Shihab - Babylonian Twins
David Tolley - Bash Street Kids
Andrew Crowe - Blast Squad
Nick Lee - Putty Squad
Dante Profeta - Agricola
Alistair M. Robinson - Airwolf
Rabah Shihab - Babylonian Twins
David Tolley - Bash Street Kids
Andrew Crowe - Blast Squad
