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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">To 

                        the Extreme</font></i></font></b><br>
                      
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                        <a href="mailto:radpipe@loonygames.com">Russell &quot;RadPipe&quot; 
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
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                      February 28, 2000</font></b></h5>
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              <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E"><loonystart> </font></p>
              
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              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Must 
                have made it really difficult from a project management point 
                of view. </font></b></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style='font-weight:normal'><b>Ewing:  </b></span><b><span></span></b>Well management 
                in game development is much different than management in regular 
                everyday business.  There is a hierarchy, so you know who the 
                main guys who are in charge, like Tim from Epic and James from 
                DE, but almost everybody has a choice and is free to go their 
                own way within reason.  You have to answer to the whole group.  
                There’s not one person you have to answer to.  There’s not like 
                a complex chain of command or anything.  So in that way that whole 
                mishmash sort of thing works well.  </font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style='font-weight:normal'><b>Eekels:  </b></span><b></b>And that’s the same thing 
                that we’re doing right now too.  Everybody here has a voice.  
                Because it’s been proven to be successful for Unreal and Unreal 
                Tournament, so we’re going to keep that same philosophy.  </font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>So 
                while you’re designing Dark Sector, you bring everybody together 
                and say, “What do you like?  What do you dislike?”</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b><span
style='font-weight:normal'> Yep.</span></font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing:  
                </b><span
style='font-weight:normal'>Totally.</span></font></p>
              
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Here’s 
              a question that I’ve always wondered.  You guys are level designers 
              and you’re working on a game that is a lot different than what you’re 
              used to, but you’re still in the design phase.  What are you working 
              on right now?  </b></font> </p>
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                    <ignoreme>More new Dark Sector concept art. (109k).</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style='font-weight:normal'><b>Eekels:  </b></span><b></b> Well we look at the whole 
              overall picture of Dark Sector and designing the world.  And we 
              broke it down and said okay, we have the disc, now slowly move out.  
              So the level designers have to be organized in that respect.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>I 
                guess what I mean was, you don’t have any tools to work with, 
                right, so you can’t actually sit there and start building levels.</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style='font-weight:normal'><b>Eekels:  </b></span><b><span></span></b><span> </span>Oh 
                no, we do!  We’re using the Unreal Tools.</font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b><span
style='font-weight:normal'>We have the Unreal engine too.</span></font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>How 
                do you compare Dark Sector to other Massively Multiplayer Online 
                games, would you compare it to something like –</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b><span
style='font-weight:normal'>Asheron’s Call or something like that?</span></font></p>

              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Yeah.</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Eekels: </b><span
style='font-weight:normal'>I think it will be very close but science fiction of 
                course.</span></font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Let’s 
                go back and talk a little bit more about Unreal Tournament.  UT 
                won a number of awards such as Best Action Game, Best Shooter, 
                etc from a number of publications.  How do you feel about those 
                awards?  Was it a big a surprise to win all these awards?</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style='font-weight:normal'><b>Eekels:  </b></span><b></b> It is kind of a surprise 
                because you don’t expect it.  You’ve been working on the game 
                for so long and it’s getting old in your mind and all of a sudden 
                –</font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style='font-weight:normal'><b>Ewing:  </b></span><b></b> It’s not like all of us 
                were watching the awards and thinking, “Oh please, oh please.”  
                And then all of a sudden, oh we won.  Cool.</font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style='font-weight:normal'><b>Eekels:  </b></span><b></b>And that’s kind of cool 
                to hear that.  That means that people actually love your game 
                and that year that we spent in our hot room was not all wasted.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>That’s 
                very good.  I’ve done a lot of writing and the books I’ve read 
                on the subject, and I think this goes for pretty much anything 
                where you’re in some type of artistic role, is that first thing 
                you should do is put your acceptance speech on a sticky and place 
                it over your monitor.  And every time you sit down you’re looking 
                at your acceptance speech and you’re thinking, “Ok I gotta make 
                something so good that one day they’re going to give me an award 
                and I’m going to get to give this speech.”  I think it’s the ultimate 
                –</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b><span
style='font-weight:normal'>Motivation.</span></font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style='font-weight:normal'><b>Eekels:  </b></span><b><span></span></b>That’s not 
                what we did though &lt;laughs&gt;.  Actually what it says on top 
                of our monitors is, “Save your work often!”  </font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Ewing: </b><span
style='font-weight:normal'>Oh god.</span></font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style='font-weight:normal'><b>Eekels:  </b></span><b></b>That was the biggest sign 
                on our monitors.</font></p>
              <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span
style='font-weight:normal'><b>Ewing:  </b></span><b><span style='font-weight:normal'></span></b><span style='font-weight:normal'>Yeah.</span></font></p>
              
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