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My most recent games credit is as Producer on Starship Titanic, a cross-platform CD-ROM Adventure Game for Douglas Adams. This position involved all tasks involved in getting the title to market. I started on the project initially as Lead Author and was promoted to Producer for the last 6 months of the development cycle.
The setting is a fictitious Starship, commissioned and built by a distant, advanced civilisation to serve as the ultimate in intergalactic transport. Majestic and luxurious, the ship features the finest in travel accommodation. Like its ancestral namesake, this vessel holds the promise of infallible engineering.
Alas, on its maiden voyage the Starship Titanic crashes into the player's home. Once aboard, the player's intergalactic adventure takes off. The ship is inhabited by a crew of malfunctioning robots and a semi-deranged parrot, played by Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. In order to progress, the player must learn to communicate with the ship's cast of idiosyncratic "bots".
The player begins as a third class passenger, but quickly becomes subject to one of the most powerful forces known to man -- the desire for a free upgrade. As the player moves up to second and ultimately to first class, more of the ship becomes accessible and more of its mysteries are revealed. The player's challenge is to solve a series of bizarre and surreal puzzles, correct the ship's central navigation system and return to Earth before the outlandish behaviour of the parrot drives him irrevocably mad!
I was Production Director at Zone (UK) Ltd., my responsibilities ranged from producing the original Vid Zone consoles to contributions to UnZip (the UK's first CD-ROM magazine) published in 1995.
