Another Standoff Mission Done

We have had some very good mission progress this week. I like that a lot.

So, after... what, how long has it been, four months? Anyway, Quarto has finally completed the mission he started last year. And he's started another one this week... and says it's nearly finished already! So, one mission takes four months, while another is expected to take little more than a week: what gives? :-P Well, for our mission coders, it's mainly a question of how much time they can spare at a given point. There have been peak periods where we'd receive a mission every three or four days... and then there are cases where a mission takes four months or more. Not because it's really so work-intensive (Quarto estimates it actually only takes about ten hours total to code most missions), but simply because the person working on it suddenly finds himself unable to devote more than a few minutes once every few days for a while.

Anyway, although there are still five missions left to finish (not to mention various bugs to fix in most of the already-completed ones), only two of those are still completely untouched - one each for the winning and losing paths. So, this would be a good time to set missions to green on the progress board :-).

Making the Game: Mission E2

E2 is the T'lan Meth wingman rescue, where Casey flies off to save Maniac's former wingman. I'd like to stress one thing here, a simple quote: "[Please move the ACE to E4. bjc]" That sums up the amount of thought that goes into these things - that it's important to move a single enemy encounter to a different mission.

These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" Guentzel, who provided several CD image archives of material used by the Wing Commander Prophecy development team!

Mission E2/b Download (49 kb) Date: November 25, 1997 Project: Wing Commander Prophecy Donated By: John Guentzel Pages: 4