THE NOR-THERN LIGHTS, JUST-A WEATHERBALLOON: HOW DESTROY ALL HUMANS! WAS BORN
Sometimes from the most innocuous of beginnings:
Matt Harding (Lead Designer/Dancing around the world guy)
alright:Fly around in a UFO sucking rednecks and cattle onto your ship.
Anyone? Anyone?
Brad Welch (Lead Artist, future Design Director on DAH)
Is there a reason that a more adult style of humorous game is no good?!?Doing a funny abduction game could actually be a laugh, or even doing a game that’s all sort of spoofing cliches…
I have no idea what the game would be…adult party game perhaps?!?
Dan Teasdale, now senior designer at Rock Band creator Harmonix, shares this email exchange that would launch Pandemic Studios’ cult hit franchise Destroy All Humans, beginning with what must have seemed like the most obvious unexplored idea in gaming. And, curiously, the thread shows how easily the idea almost immediately got derailed into conspiratorial territory before coming back that perfect germ.
And yes, Teasdale means Matt Harding is that ‘hello, I’ve got some 30+ million YouTube views’ dancing around the world guy. Fantastic stuff, and, sadly, comes a month after the studio was “set free” from parent company EA and subsequently shuttered.
The genesis of Destroy All Humans! [DanT’s Design Blog]
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