Plok 319 Posted February 27, 2013 Petroglyph's co-founder and creative director, Joe Bostic, will have an AmA on Reddit on Thursday at 10 AM PST/6 PM GMT on the beginnings of the RTS genre. This is your chance to ask him anything related to Dune and C&C games! More information will likely be released in the original thread on the Petroglyph Studios' official forums. UPDATE: You can see the AmA by clicking here. Share this post Link to post
recover 2 Posted February 27, 2013 (edited) It's actually tomorrow. Thursday. Well.. depends on your timezone, so yea, since this is a NZ website, maybe correct for some people here. =) Edited February 27, 2013 by recover Share this post Link to post
Plok 319 Posted February 27, 2013 I seem to be confusing more things than I should lately... Fixed now. Share this post Link to post
Sonic 292 Posted February 28, 2013 There probably a heap of people who have no idea who Joe Bostic is anyway. It's actually tomorrow. Thursday. Well.. depends on your timezone, so yea, since this is a NZ website, maybe correct for some people here. =) For the record. CNCNZ.com is not an NZ site. I've mentioned this many times for many years now. We are an international site. Always remember that Share this post Link to post
Plok 319 Posted February 28, 2013 There probably a heap of people who have no idea who Joe Bostic is anyway.Former Westwood employee, Petroglyph Studios co-founder and creative director. That's more than enough Share this post Link to post
Plok 319 Posted February 28, 2013 http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/19epje/i_am_joe_bostic_22_year_game_developer_11_years/ Share this post Link to post
Tore 33 Posted March 2, 2013 Ah Joe Bostic, a man you see often during the credits of Westwood games. Such as this from the manual of C&C95 Share this post Link to post
Sonic 292 Posted March 3, 2013 I knew this question would come up..... Why did Westwood sell to EA? They kinda killed the Red Alert series. :/ Westwood was owned by Virgin Interactive, then sold to the Viacom/Blockbuster/Spelling conglomerate, and then finally sold to Electronic Arts. With each of these sales, it wasn't something that Westwood really had any control over. For the most part, the ownership change didn't have a day-to-day impact on the studio. The big impact was when EA decided to consolidate their studios to LA which resulted in the Westwood office closing. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/19epje/i_am_joe_bostic_22_year_game_developer_11_years/c8nd7kh I hope people realise that EA didn't just come in and take over. Share this post Link to post