Gobalopper Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 Post your questions for Joe Bostic, designer/programmer of Dune II and numerous other Westwood games, here.
Stormwatch Posted January 30, 2002 Posted January 30, 2002 I have read the entire dune series recently and there is no mention of a house ordos in them. Why was it decided to add third house. I'm not complaining . If it weren't for dune 2 I would have never read the books, I'm just interestedI also loved the designs of the stillsuits/armor in dune 2. Why fall back on the movies weird glowing facemask design?
Gobalopper Posted January 30, 2002 Author Posted January 30, 2002 Well I can answer the second question, Westwood has the movie licence so things look/follow the movie more then the novels.Here are a couple other quetsions.Was there ever any plan to add a multiplayer mode into the game or would that have required too much of an overhaul of the engine?In your view what game was more innovative, Dune II or the original Command & Conquer?How did you come up with the idea to make an RTS game based in the Dune Universe and what other games influenced you?When was the last time you played Dune II? :)
nemafakei Posted January 31, 2002 Posted January 31, 2002 What gave you the inspiration to use Dune for the first proper RTS?
Gobalopper Posted January 31, 2002 Author Posted January 31, 2002 If you don't want to post here, ie you don't want to create an account you can email me the questions as well.
nampigai Posted January 31, 2002 Posted January 31, 2002 Why did you use a ram as house Harkonnens coed of amour
Copec Posted February 1, 2002 Posted February 1, 2002 my game freez after playing betwenn 5 to 10 minutes!I use ME what can I do?Er, the voice of the EVA is not working1 I hear it in the optionsmenu!Have u worked on emperor and Dune2k too?
Gobalopper Posted February 1, 2002 Author Posted February 1, 2002 Note, we aren't sending tech support questions to Joe.Dune II isn't supported under ME so if it doesn't work Westwood probably won't help. Boot up yoiur old 286 with MS-DOS and give it a try. :)
davo Posted February 1, 2002 Posted February 1, 2002 I can answer feyd's question.The Harkonnen's insignia in the Dune Encyclopedia is a Ram's head -  "White a ram's head caboshed guardant azure." Same for the Atreides' "falcon", and the Ordos' snake (which is House Wallach's insignia ... Ordos' bone insignia was prolly not cool enough  :) )
Guest Soul Blighter Posted February 2, 2002 Posted February 2, 2002 Yes but in reality from the books....The Harkonnen House insignia is the griffin and the Atreides is not falcon but hawk
Sardauker-Kirov Posted February 5, 2002 Posted February 5, 2002 The skull logo would look cool with Harkonnen ram mixed, LoLI didnt know Ordos were pirates  ::)
Nefud Posted February 8, 2002 Posted February 8, 2002 I agree... ;DI have to tell you, that Frank Herbert never used the Dune Encyclopedia because he used his own imagination to create the characters and other stuff in his Duniverse! (For some people the Encyclopedia became 'apocryphal' because it contained info which didn't match FH's version.)
Jk Posted February 10, 2002 Posted February 10, 2002 Tell WW to make a multiplayer patch for Dune II. Â ;D
exatreide Posted February 12, 2002 Posted February 12, 2002 dont think thats going to happen..............
Sardauker-Kirov Posted February 12, 2002 Posted February 12, 2002 Yes indeed..... Its a old game, Maybe some people plays it but for multiplayer.... No way..
XTF Posted February 13, 2002 Posted February 13, 2002 Could you ask him why the source code will not be released?BTW, when can we expect the answers?
Gobalopper Posted February 13, 2002 Author Posted February 13, 2002 I have a bunch of midterms this week so I will be sending them to Chris to forward to Joe on Friday most likely.
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