Cofounder of Westwood Reveals Crunch Stories on The Lion King | TITANS OF THE INDUSTRY

Описание: Louis Castle is the co-founder of the legendary game development company, Westwood Studios. Started back in 1985 originally known as Westwood Associates, Louis Castle took this humble game studio from a porting house on the Amiga and Macintosh 128K, to a RTS powerhouse of the IBM PC in the 90s. in this long form interview with Louis Castle, we ask him about the stories behind the games the Lion King, Blade Runner, Command and Conquer, and Monopoly. Each one of these games sold over a million units, and cemented Westwood Studios as a studio that redefined the games industry.

TITANS OF THE INDUSTRY is a long form documentary series where we interview the people who impacted the games industry. In this episode we interview Louis Castle, the co-founder of Westwood Studios.

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00:00 Trailer
01:45 First experience with computers
05:41 The birth of Westwood
09:07 A job, an education, a business, somethings got to give
14:54 California Games - Amiga
18:56 SSI era, Eye of the Beholder, Dragonstrike, D&D games
24:28 The IRS almost put us out of business
27:20 Get acquired by Sierra or Virgin?
34:07 DUNE II
37:20 The beginning of The Lion King
40:25 The Lion King gets more complicated
45:00 The Unreleased Aladdin 2
46:32 Win95 Monopoly
51:00 Command & Conquer
1:08:10 The innovators Dilemma
1:12:24 Blade Runner
1:26:12 The fall of Virgin Interactive and the Sale to EA or Microsoft
1:31:04 Did EA ruin Westwood?
1:34:30 Earth and Beyond, the failed MMO
1:38:45 The closure of Westwood Studios and the loss of gaming history
1:42:03 EA LA, and the rise of Boom Blox
1:46:22 After EA, a 15 year fast forward to Deviation Games
1:50:24 A message to game devs out of a job
1:55:19 My thoughts on Louis’ career