Defcon Interview

By: Derek Yu

On: June 4th, 2007

Game journalist extraordinaire Kieron Gillen (or Keer-eon Gill-eon as I like to call him), sits down for a chat and a spot of tea with Introversion’s Chris Delay.

“Comparing DEFCON to our other games is difficult. Uplink is rugged and buggy and ugly and still sells more than Darwinia every day. Darwinia is our oddball second album, our very own love letter to the Amiga and the soul of great videogames, and the game I’m most proud of. DEFCON is a relatively simple multiplayer game idea and I think that’s probably the key to its success.”

(Source: GameSetWatch)

Posted in Community, Interviews | Tags: Introversion

Zaphos

“Introversion are the closest the 00s have to a genuine underground heroes”

… what.
Underwhelmed

The blockheaded self admiration of these guys really hurts my ability to want to play anything else they have or will make. At this point I want them to go belly up just to put in end to this self stylization “we are your heroes” crap.
(_)_)IIIIIIID

Yeah fu** these fa99075. Their gamez sux0r anyway.
hkian

>>There is no Zerg rush that simply cannot be defeated.

I stopped reading it right there. You’re pretty shit at starcraft if you think a Zerg rush is unbeatable. In Southern Korea, Terran rushes YOU!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jen46qkZVNI
Aubrey

Although it’s fun to watch, I still have no idea why everyone on TIGsource acts like Introversion have had a go on their mothers. Just the arrogance, is it?
Optrirominiluikus

doG, I love Darwinia.
Optrirominiluikus

BTW, Who the fuck cares about Starcraft?
buttgas

I love Introversion, I’ve pirated everything they made. And I don’t know what their new secret project is, but they’re doing a really nice job with some really cool procedural content, and that has me a little excited/jealous.
monkeybutts

But *I* wanted to be the poster child for indie games waaaaaaaah.
http://isadorblog.blogspot.com Isador21

They make some real nice games, too bad people still find a way to try and bring them down … as Aubrey said, must be arrogance …
Derek

Wow, these are some of the most munged comments I’ve ever read on this site.
Optrirominiluikus

Face it Derek, you got pwned.
Derek

I did, man. I got pwned pretty hard.
Dan MacDonald

I think it’s Introversion’s arrogance that causes other people to be arrogant about them.

Especially if you consider yourself a bedroom coder. Them calling themselves “the last” is sort of disinheriting you.
Oh Snap

You just got dissed by the DMac
http://www.scientology.org/ Tom Cruise

Hi, I’m Tom Cruise. You may remember me from classic 80’s homo-erotica ‘Top Gun’. I’m here to tell you about the last of the bedroom cults. Yes, I’m talking about s_c_i_e_n_t_o_l_o_g_y.
failrate

I am presuming this is the indie games equivalent of the hip-hop feud, innit?

To whit, “No, I am the original hardcore playah”, “Nay, says I, that is me”.

Simply replace “original hardcore playah” with “last bedroom coder”, and any references to “motherfucker” with “cougar hunter”, and there you go.
Twisted Rabbit

That made me cry. It hurt my self esteem. Darwinia rocks, it is that simple.
PHeMoX

“Especially if you consider yourself a bedroom coder. Them calling themselves â€œthe lastâ€ is sort of disinheriting you.”

True, as is to many others aswell, it’s not like there are no other ‘bedroom programmers’ besides Introversion Software.
In fact, I’d almost not consider Introversion Software to be ‘true indies’ anymore basically. I totally dislike their arrogance, it’s misplaced really.

Darwinia isn’t really thÃ¡t good, eventhough it’s a hell of an original game, I give them that, however I actually liked their Uplink and DEFCON games way way better when it comes to gameplay and replay values.

I didn’t buy Darwinia, but did buy the other two games, I especially like DEFCON and play it quite a lot still.

I think Introversion Software has to learn to be more modest, because they are not at all.
PHeMoX

â€œEspecially if you consider yourself a bedroom coder. Them calling themselves â€œthe lastâ€ is sort of disinheriting you.â€

By the way, when it comes to Derek, he could practically go for ‘first of the legendary bedroom programmers’, although there’s a whole ‘Clickteam’ generation out there I guess.^^
Tom Cruise

What’s with the ban on mentioning cults at Tigsource then?
Fost

What’s with the ban on mentioning cults here?
m00ps

darwinia == cannon fodder