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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"


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

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
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