Background Data for Wing Commander 2

WC1 & 2 Sound Design Docs

This collection of "The Fatman" George Sanger's files from Wing Commander I and II is especially interesting. It includes notes on the music itself and the contract issues that came up after the scope of the project became apparent!

Wing Commander II: Cloak and Dagger Character Pitch

This fascinating document, glimpsed in the Wing Commander I & II Ultimate Strategy Guide, introduces us to the characters Ellen Guon and Stephen Beeman initially imagined for Wing Commander 2. As with the script, there is a LOT here that didn't make it into the finished game!

Wing Commander 2 Art Pitch

The preliminary list of art assets needed for the initial version of Wing Commander 2. These are all the talking heads, background sets, special scenes and so on that Guon and Beeman believed the art team would have to create. Note that they're already thinking about saving money/time: there are notes about reusing things from Wing Commander I... and Ultima 6!

Wing Commander 2 Ship Codex

At some point during the development of Wing Commander 2, someone at Origin ran a text file of all the game's ship stats through a dot matrix printer. From there they marked changes as the game was finished--what ships were cut, what changed roles and so on. Over the years that printout yellowed, the text faded, the edges tore and it slowly disappeared... until it was discovered and photographed.

Ultimate Strategy Guide WC2 Making Of Article

The WC2 part of the Ultimate Strategy Guide's 'making of' article. This part contains all sorts of behind-the-screens images showing how ships were rendered and how the character descriptions appeared in the script.

Transcript of 1990/1991 Chat Session With Origin staff

Transcript of a live, on-line conference with Chris Roberts, Origin game designer/director for Origin to discuss his big hit game Wing Commander and its upcoming sequel.