American McGee Interview

by Maarten Goldstein, Nov 25, 2002 7:31am PST

Related Topics – Interview, Games: PC, American McGee

There is a Q&A with American McGee on HomeLAN Fed, where the Carbon6 co-founder is asked about his production company and the upcoming Oz game. Though American's answers are generally pretty brief or of the "can't say much" type, there's still a bit of new info in there.

HomeLAN - What can you tell us about the actual gameplay of the Oz game? American McGee - action/adventure/quest based built around a linear narrative story with non-linear mini-quests integrated throughout in a seamless fashion. the idea is to create a toy box in which the player can choose his/her own path through the world. ..

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By: Maddog_Delphi97 x Show Full Post

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I wonder if American ever wishes he could go back to work for iD software..

Nov 25, 2002 7:38am PST

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  And be making Doom for the 6th time with no chance of his name even being on the credits let along the bo... : baron calamity
  - do you work with Teh McGee? : Antilles_Prime
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  Romero wishes he was McGee : Ra5putin
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    Sadly, I think Romero would rather be noone else but Romero. : spl
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      If I were Romero, I'd poo on all of you for such vicious personal attacks. : Cpt. Baseballbat
      
      It's all in good fun... : spl
      
      hello, Romero! : Antilles_Prime
      
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      agreed : [7]kami
      
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      Poo on Romero and gay fan-boys of Romero and gay fan-boys of Romero gay fan-boys, of which you seem to be... : pleeb
      
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      I could not care less about Romero. But personal attacks that vicious because you did not like a fucking ... : [7]kami
      
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      Sorry to dissapoint Kami, but you only assume much like a child would. I do not like teh Romero because h... : pleeb
      
      You know the guy? : [7]kami
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  episode 3 of Quake is still my favorite; McGee is responsible for all those dark maps. : the archvile
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    Welcome to 1996. He was let go for a reason. -The SAMe : SERIOUSly the SAMe
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      I thought he quit. Why was he let go then? : Anti_dentite
      
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      Carmack said in many interviews he was "fired" (same with Romer) but in probably the most polite way. The... : SERIOUSly the SAMe
      
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      http://finger.planetquake.com/qfplan.asp?userid=johnc&id=6461 : slipi
      
      hmm, interesting : Anti_dentite

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He does have a cool name...

Nov 25, 2002 7:34am PST

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He does have a cool name... : ghost in my shell
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- He was born with that name too! His mom was an irish hippie I guess. : Liquid
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  When you think about it, it's not that different to Christian. : nudel
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    there is a difference between an american and a christian though : spector
    - Yeah, one of them still works at id, and has a really cute sister. :) : dafragsta
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    I thought about it and find a large difference. : jaga
    - I think you've both missed my point. I'm not saying all Americans are Christians. : nudel

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American McGee, 2002: on top of that people are never happy with what you give them. release screenshots: they complain "they're not pretty enough". talk about the game: they complain "you're not making the game i want to play". etc, etc.

John Carmack, 1998: American McGee has been let go from Id...we were not seeing what we wanted.

Some things never change. ;-)

Nov 26, 2002 3:12am PST

American McGee, 2002: on top of that people are never happy with what you give them. release screenshots: : ornee

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"on top of that people are never happy with what you give them. release screenshots: they complain "they're not pretty enough".
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Gee shackers dissing your screenshot because you are using a 3 year old engine on a game that will be released in 2004. Yeah I guess we are just a bunch of whiners. No satisfying us!

Nov 25, 2002 3:21pm PST

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- which engine is it? : mill
- quake 3 engine from the screenshot. CliffyB said they didn't use the Unreal engine. : junkstyle

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American McGee's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Nov 25, 2002 10:04am PST

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American McGee's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory : Wombat Woo
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  Actually, that woudl be better than Alice or Oz. That movie was screwed up allready. : dafragsta
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    That would be kinda cool. Threewave CTO (Capture the Oompaloompa) anyone? : samhain78
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      Didn't Marilyn Manson want to remake Willy Wonka? That might actually make for a pretty rad game. : mill
      
      dope hat? : wretchedmage
    - Woot! http://www.oompa-loompas.net/ : Wombat Woo
  - already? and alice's adventures in wonderland wasn't? what are you disney-fed? : jaga

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By: Cygnus X-1 x Show Full Post

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American McGee = Rip Taylor of the gaming world?

Nov 25, 2002 10:58am PST

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- i think he looks more like charlie clouser from NIN : anti-orp

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Will you be able to rape someone in the shower? Oz rules

Nov 25, 2002 12:00pm PST

Will you be able to rape someone in the shower? Oz rules : slackor

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Time again to repeat my futile hope that American McGee will release the SDK to Alice and let the community start churning out single player levels.Noone has ever made a serious attempt at a single player q3 engine experience. FAKK2 came and went,the other q3 games have been ww2 sims,and I really don't need to see 101 ways to shoot Nazis.So what are we left with?A quake 1 community stuck with the same content for 6 years no retooling of the engine can really help.Sure the creatures of Alice were silly and the weapons sillier,but there was so much potential in seeing what the dedicated hobbiest could do free of time constraints and editing.

*sigh*

Nov 25, 2002 11:02am PST

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Time again to repeat my futile hope that American McGee will release the SDK to Alice and let the communi... : TheDreamDragon
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- SOF2. : Cygnus X-1

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i wish they could re-release quake 1, included with all the crap they left out, like the ogres pissing on your corpse when they killed you, the dragon, etc.

Nov 25, 2002 9:58am PST

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- A dragon was in one of the add-on packs. Pissing ogres? That's new to me... : zipr

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with non-linear mini-quests <---- giggles

Nov 25, 2002 8:39am PST

with non-linear mini-quests <---- giggles : TERATOGEN

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Wait a linear main mission with non linear side quests. Yet you can choose your path through the world? So in other words it's alice with a few optional side quests that do nothing to change the main storyline, but probably just give you powerups.

Nov 25, 2002 7:50am PST

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- It's no fun if you don't use buzzwords! : parker.ny

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