News Meet the Team #9- Tom Kewell (Designer)

[Minti2]

Thanks Tom, and Ashley, interesting stuff.

One question. You mentioned deep exploration and having something interesting named after you. Is that something that will be available to everyone?

Can I claim this planet for SPAIN!

Great interview really enjoyed that one, and very interesting snippets and as BB says is the naming thing available to everyone? am assuming its unusual finds or a small recognition of a new system found?

Like your business take of supply and demand of fuel to

 

[Jenner]

Thanks for the interview! Good read, and nice to meet cha.

 

[psykokow]

Tom with it being halloween, i wanted to help you rule out some costumes...

Spoiler

 

[Rollo]

Nice interview. Thanks for it.

"I’ve also been toying with the idea of raking in cash by selling fuel to other players on the frontier at a high mark-up, then investing that money into a really rugged long-range explorer; see if I can get my name on the galaxy map somewhere for discovering something cool!"

I do like the sound of this. Close to my heart it is.

 

[Tom Kewell]

Great interview really enjoyed that one, and very interesting snippets and as BB says is the naming thing available to everyone? am assuming its unusual finds or a small recognition of a new system found?

Like your business take of supply and demand of fuel to

We'll be getting properly into system discovery some time soon. Realistically we might have to review what's possible in terms of the multiplayer, but I think it would be a nice touch to reference the discovering player in the systems description or something.

Watch this space. Glad you enjoyed the interview!

 

[Michael Brookes]

How's this?

I didn't realise we were filling the polys on this one!



Michael

 

[MikeSnos]

I didn't realise we were filling the polys on this one!



Michael

I think you'll find it's being done 'sooner' than you think

 

[Philip Coutts]

Oh these FD boys think they are funny. Well your cards are all well marked as soon as the game starts we will be launching psykokow straight at you.......and running in the opposite direction!

 

[matthewdbenson]

I didn't realise we were filling the polys on this one!



Michael

Elite Dangerous should have a couple of easter eggs, where, in a certain (rare) situation, one might come across a wireframe ship (Elite style), or a filled 'poly' ship (Frontier style) ...

 

[Michael Brookes]

Oh these FD boys think they are funny. Well your cards are all well marked as soon as the game starts we will be launching psykokow straight at you.......and running in the opposite direction!

He may find that his ship tends to malfunction a lot so won't be launching anything

Michael

 

[Out2lunch]

Thanks for the great interview Tom.

Another great read, loved having the Fer-de-lance confirmed for the game. Always my favorite ship.

 

[Dr Wookie]

Hi Tom! Thanks for the interesting interview, and "announcing" the fer-de-lance !

 

[Ben Parry]

I can’t wait to zoom through the middle of a dogfight in my high speed viper, looking for soft targets I can sting before flashing out of the range of any return fire.

Kill stealer, eh?

 

[Ben Parry]

Whoah! Epic! Thats got to be one of the sleekest ships you guys have created yet. That just confirms ED will be the most bleeding edge game ever created.

We've been having some performance issues so we may have to drop the poly budget on that a little before release...

 

[Nagual]

We've been having some performance issues so we may have to drop the poly budget on that a little before release...

I heard a rumour that it was being released in 2D, R-Type style?

 

[amigacooke]

Hmmm Agricola eh? A serious board gamer.

 

[el_tel]

...I’d be Commander Talisker. It’s just better!

Another whisky fan by any chance?
That's Kewell Tom

 

[synchromesh]

Hi Tom ..Great interview !!

As with the other other Dev team members interviewed you are immortalised in the history books on the kickstarter DVD

BTW...Love what you have on screen I could do with some of that for some of the ideas im playing with

 

[Ben Parry]

I heard a rumour that it was being released in 2D, R-Type style?

Well apparently I'm bound by contract to neither confirm nor deny anything.

 

[StefanOS]

Hello Tom, 2 standard questions are missing in the interview.

1. Did you play ELITE /FE2 / FFE ??
2. Did you think about ELITE 4 when you applied at frontier

P.S. about the Fer de Lance, I am impressed that E will be with COLOR and not only black and white! Thats unexpected, but I now have to buy a color TV...