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Of course they ultimately left to form id and work with Apogee on the Commander Keen series and eventually Wolfenstien.
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It was a very interesting time because all the original guys that ultimately formed id Software also worked at Softdisk. In 1990, I worked at Softdisk Publishing in Shreveport, LA. Past Pioneers of the Shareware Revolutionġ) How did you first come in contact with Apogee? Read on to hear what Mike has to say about his time with us (now 13 years ago). He's worked at such gaming companies as 7th Level, Ion Storm, Third Law Interactive, TKO Software, and is currently employed at id Software. Later on, some of our earlier games ended up there, but Planet Strike was our first ever foray into the arena of "Hey, pay attention to my box on the store shelf!" (that's why there's a woman on Planet Strike's cover art when there was no woman in the game at all).Īnyway, Mike has continued to stay active in the gaming industry since his time with Apogee in 1994. Planet Strike was also novel in our company history, as it was the first time we ever put out a game in the retail channel directly. In some cases this was necessary to unlock certain locked areas in upper levels. Some other novelties in Blake Stone was the fact that you could go backwards to levels you already had visited. These were characters that would give you helpful information, so just going in and shooting everything you see was not the way to go here. Blake Stone had many firsts in 3D gaming, one of which was the rather common practice of NPC's, or "Non Player Characters". Mike was one of the three guys who made up "Jam Productions", and had the arduous task of working on the first 3D action game by us in the post Wolfenstein 3D era. The second was put out on and was titled "Planet Strike: A Blake Stone Adventure". The first was released on Dec 3, 1993, and was titled "Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold". Mike and his group ("Jam Productions") put out two games through us. Today our "Apogee Legacy" Interview series finishes up it's third month with an entry from Mike Maynard.