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

izzy · Oct 15, 2013

amigacooke said:
Wait a minute! This game has three lives. That is so completely against the Elite ethos that I'm going to theoretically withdraw my pledge immediately.

In a non-violent non-effective protest.

Not 3 lives. I'm sure he uses a cheat code to have unlimited lives.

MikeSnos · Oct 15, 2013

amigacooke said:
Wait a minute! This game has three lives. That is so completely against the Elite ethos that I'm going to theoretically withdraw my pledge immediately.

In a non-violent non-effective protest.

What's your name? Toebs?

Cosmos · Oct 15, 2013

Cathy said:
A good read.

The nights are drawing in. Hope Tom wears a flourescent jacket when cycling to and from work. Or emits bright and pretty particle effects.

Absolutely! Us backers aren't going to accept any injuries as an excuse to not turn up at work :smilie:

W4rSkuLL · Oct 15, 2013

Susimetsa said:
That actually is the official description of the ship from the original Elites, afaik.

Ohh, well I have played the original Elite on PC and it didnt move slow and had descent lazers. But it might be portraited different in another version for another console.

Susimetsa · Oct 16, 2013

W4rSkuLL said:
Ohh, well I have played the original Elite on PC and it didnt move slow and had descent lazers. But it might be portraited different in another version for another console.

Elite was never released on consoles, as far as I know, only computers.

But, yes, it was always meant to be a luxury ship more than a bad-ass fighter. It's turn radius _was_ larger than that of smaller ships.

Captain N · Oct 16, 2013

There was a NES port, released in 1991

Frontier was also released for the CD32

StefanOS · Oct 16, 2013

Ashley Barley said:
This is what I saw on Ben's monitor last time I walked past

Oh man, to play this we will need to buy a new PC with at least a double-quadcore i7 with 4GHz, 16GB DDR4 RAM with some weird CROSSFIRE double grafic card (also 2x4GB DDR5 RAM) that will cost at least 2000 USD+ (tripple 2500x1600 pixel Monitor and ocolus rift not included)

StefanOS · Oct 16, 2013

StefanosA said:
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

Hello Tom, are you avoiding those questions?

Philip Coutts · Oct 16, 2013

This also puts an end to any porting across to the Playstation 4 or Xbox one, there's just no way they are going to handle that level of detail....

Oss133 · Oct 16, 2013

Adam Lusardi said:
pre release Alpha

http://www.goriya.com/flash/asteroids/asteroids.shtml

Thanks for the opportunity to remind myself how vast is the level of suckage to which I can attain at Asteroids.

Cathy · Oct 16, 2013

oss133 said:
Thanks for the opportunity to remind myself how vast is the level of suckage to which I can attain at Asteroids.

Have you tried it with the Oculus Rift dev kit or at least a three monitor set-up?

Ben Parry · Oct 16, 2013

Ashley Barley said:
This is what I saw on Ben's monitor last time I walked past

My ears are burning. What? Oh.
That's public now is it? Well at least you can see those asteroids are all different, procedural generation in action!

Maxeren · Oct 16, 2013

Ben Parry said:
My ears are burning. What? Oh.
That's public now is it? Well at least you can see those asteroids are all different, procedural generation in action!

Yes.. but some of them look samey

Tom Kewell · Oct 17, 2013

StefanosA said:
Hello Tom, are you avoiding those questions?

Hello. Not really avoiding them, just didn't have very interesting answers to them.
1. I've played Fe2, and had a go at the original Elite since coming onto the project.
2. Yes.

psykokow · Oct 17, 2013

Tom Kewell said:
Hello. Not really avoiding them, just didn't have very interesting answers to them.
1. I've played Fe2, and had a go at the original Elite since coming onto the project.
2. Yes.

I see what you mean.. maybe you need a better question.

IF you had to be stranded in a one man space station for a few years, what game (excluding Elite Dangerous) would you ABSOLUTELY Have to have with you... (Multiplayer options are not available due to the poor quality of broadband connection by NASA's chosen ISP talk talk).??

StefanOS · Oct 17, 2013

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

Tom Kewell said:
Hello. Not really avoiding them, just didn't have very interesting answers to them.
1. I've played Fe2, and had a go at the original Elite since coming onto the project.
2. Yes.

P.S. Added the question's for better understanding of the answers!

Tom Kewell · Oct 17, 2013

psykokow said:
I see what you mean.. maybe you need a better question.

IF you had to be stranded in a one man space station for a few years, what game (excluding Elite Dangerous) would you ABSOLUTELY Have to have with you... (Multiplayer options are not available due to the poor quality of broadband connection by NASA's chosen ISP talk talk).??

I'd be quite tempted to take something like FTL or spelunky, maybe minecraft. Those roguelikes do in theory have infinite possibilities.

Darren Grey · Oct 17, 2013

Tom Kewell said:
I'd be quite tempted to take something like FTL or spelunky, maybe minecraft. Those roguelikes do in theory have infinite possibilities.

Woohoo, another roguelike fan!

Mobius · Oct 17, 2013

Tom Kewell said:
I'd be quite tempted to take something like FTL

now thats a game ive lost many hours in, out of the hundred or so games i played, ive only beaten in 3 times.