What happened to Ian Bird?
Ian Drakes
Did Ian Bird write any games other than:
1. MILLENIUM 2.2 .... Brilliant Space Strategy.
2. DEUTEROS... More complex Space Strategy but technically inferior to
Millenium. BTW is there a way to get the pirate into the prison pod?
Fabio Bizzetti
Q: Are you sure he wrote those games?
Ian Bird was the co-author of the original Elite, then David Braben (the
best around IMHO) continued his stuffs, but Ian quitted game programming.
About two years ago I heard a rumour that he (Ian) was working on a PC
game, I recall it was in the same magazine's article that was talking about
a console (Saturn) game under work by Braben.
Looks like a telenovela. :)
If anyone knows, please add details!
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Fabio Bizzetti - bizz...@mbox.vol.it
pet...@aol.com
:Q: Are you sure he wrote those games?
:
:Ian Bird was the co-author of the original Elite, then
You're confusing Ian Bird (who did indeed write Millenium and Deuteros)
with Ian Bell (who co-authored Elite with David Braben).
Peter
Fabio Bizzetti
You're right, thanks for the hint.
>Peter
Greets.
Angus Manwaring
Fabio Bizzetti (bizz...@mbox.vol.it) wrote:
:
:
: Ian Bird was the co-author of the original Elite, then David Braben (the
: best around IMHO) continued his stuffs, but Ian quitted game programming.
: About two years ago I heard a rumour that he (Ian) was working on a PC
: game, I recall it was in the same magazine's article that was talking about
: a console (Saturn) game under work by Braben.
:
: Looks like a telenovela. :)
:
: If anyone knows, please add details!
Hmmmmm....... that's funny, the name Bird doesn't ring a bell. Its Ian
Bell, who sometimes posts to alt.fan.elite and if you're interested
in a short interview with David Braben, you might take a look at
http://www.angusm.demon.co.uk
Regards,
Angus.
I believe if you give a little bit of love to those you live with, a little
bit of love........... has got to come your way.
Marc Forrester
Fabio Bizzetti wrote:
> >Did Ian Bird write any games other than:
> >1. MILLENIUM 2.2 .... Brilliant Space Strategy.
> >2. DEUTEROS... More complex Space Strategy but technically inferior
> > to Millenium.
> >BTW is there a way to get the pirate into the prison pod?
Heh.
> Q: Are you sure he wrote those games?
> Ian Bird was the co-author of the original Elite,
That's Ian Bell, I believe.
I don't know who wrote 2.2 and Deuteros, though.
> then David Braben (the best around IMHO) continued his stuffs,
The best around? Urg. None of his Frontier stuff works properly,
and if http://www.gamesdomain.co.uk/gdreview/archive/iview003.html
is true, (And it's been up a long time, I'm sure if it wasn't
Braben could have had it removed by now) then he doesn't
sound all that honorable a person.
> but Ian quitted game programming. About two years ago I heard a
> rumour that he (Ian) was working on a PC game, I recall it was in
> the same magazine's article that was talking about a console
> (Saturn) game under work by Braben.
Well, the page above briefly mentions an Aikido fighting game,
and I think he mentioned what he was currently up to a few months
back on alt.fan.elite, but I can't find anything there..
I have emailed Mr Bell to ask what he's up to gameswise,
possibly he will tell us for himself.