ANTIC Interview 70 - Jon Freeman, Freefall Associates - a podcast by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold
from 2015-08-10T07:00
Jon Freeman
Jon Freeman was co-founder of the computer game publisher Automated Simulations, which became EPYX. At Automated Simulations, he co-created Starfleet Orion and Gateway to Apshai. Then he and his wife Anne Westfall started the game development company FreeFall Associates, where they created Tax Dodge, Archon, Archon II, and Murder on the Zinderneuf.
This interview took place April 21, 2015.
Teaser quotes:
“That six months, I read two books in six months, and we went to one movie. The rest of the time we we just working on the game. That’s all we did. It was very, you know, intense.”
“You know, I could just basically flip that switch every VBI and have the computer play itself. That turned out to be one of the absolutely huge selling points of [Archon]. Stores could put it in the window, get it started, and let it run.”
Links:
Free Fall Associates chapter in Halcyon Days
Further episodes of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast
Further podcasts by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold
Website of Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold