Well, I can certainly understand his reasoning for not spilling out his
personal life. Unfortunately when you are in the spotlight it can make
you look bad. I tend to be that way myself where I don't publicize my
personal life. So if projects I'm involved with seem to not get done, or
whether I'm working on them in the background, that's just the way I do
things. For example, only a few people knew that I moved from Indiana to
Texas and the reasons why. Some have speculated, and some have assumed,
and still others haven't cared really. So, where ever James North is at
this time, I do hope he's doing well. Who knows, maybe he reads the
archived messages on here. I too had some off line discussions with him
and found him to be a pleasant individual. However you are right, that
this should be put to rest.
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On 5/2/2013 11:47 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Shaun and all,
I'd prefer not to rehash all this crap again, but since the topic came
up here is what happened as far as I know.
1. James North had started up Alchemy Game Studios and got Raceway
back from Josh intending to complete that game.He also started two
other projects, Montezuma's Revenge and Max Shrapnel, and took
preorders for all of them.
2. He developed a very early beta of Raceway, but for some reason
decided after developing the beta to start over from scratch in VB
.NET. He also wrote the demo of Montezuma's Revenge that was released
to the list, but it was buggy and only four levels was ever completed.
So regardless of what people think James North was getting something
done.
3. Sometime after he began all these projects he became sick, I don't
know from what, and he stopped developing for a couple of months. He
also had a death in the family and was rightfully upset and needed
time to grieve.
4. Not surprisingly while all this was going on being sick, dealing
with a death in the family, this community hounded him, flamed him,
and it upset him. Since James didn't make it known the reasons why he
had slowed on production, why release dates were not met, I think most
people assumed he was just screwing them which he wasn't, but short of
a full confession of his personal life I don't think it would have
phased them one bit.
5. Finally, he had enough of it all. He turned Montezuma's Revenge,
Raceway, and the mouse demo over to me, and quit. He rightfully had
enough of this communities bitching, moaning, and groaning when he was
having personal problems which this community knew nothing about.
Now, that the true story is told can we move on? I know people are
upset, they are angry, they have made up their minds to hate the man,
but he is only human. He has good days and bad days like everyone
else, and while I don't agree with the way he handled the situation I
know from firsthand experience that sometimes life, real life, throws
us a few lemons and it is bad enough getting through life's problems
without several hateful, spiteful, vindictive people emailing you day
in and day out wanting to know when this or that game will be done or
they are going to sue you etc.
Cheers!
On 5/3/13, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
well it would be actually interesting to find out what happened and
to find out the full story on what actually happened in the first place.
We may go on on what we think happened but how did it all start.
We know a few facts.
1. he did not release in a while.
The industry was growing only just born and growing fast, who knew it
would normalise itself to a slow easy strole in about 10 years or so.
maybe even less.
2. james got a new company and was trialing a preorder system.
3. release dates were made but in this case james was not able to
meet the dates.
This in itself was not normal but up till then every dev had been
making dates maybe everyone was lucky.
Though pcs had started the trek stuff before gma did same with lone
wolf both were dos initially.
4. this is where at least from my standpoint it gets a bit misty.
We know that for ages there was nothing coming out at all and people
were wandering.
At that time we hadn't had anything not come when it was supposed to
so people were concerned.
However it suddenly looked after a lot of big announcements that
james publically went quiet without explanation and people started
wandering what was going on.
Maybe his life caught up with him but we will never know now or till
the end of the world.
5. we know now that the pre order system and release dates really
were not a good thing and that james took cash for something that as
far as anyone cared never made it out the door but he had a date that
couldn't be met I don't recall them being reset so obviously there
musn't have been a release date reset I don't have records at all.
bar a few demos evewrything seemed to have stopped.
And that stayed like that for about 5 years maybe more like 2-4 years.
And thats where it officially ends.
at least from what I remember.
After that there were messages bandied over that people complained to
james, even flamed him that whiny blind people made him quit, other
messages said he screwed us over!
Ofcause it can be assumed that offline life caught up with him and
although I don't expect a dev to tell of his offline life, its the
only thing I think that makes sence.
How much is true?
For that only james can know.
Some truth does exist.
we have people that like to complain to devs I am not one of those
that would go hard out.
We know he kept accepting cash after he couldn't make the release
date and got flack for it.
We don't know though what happened, not fully.
Shortly after the start of the 5th year the flamewar started.
And then james quit obviously his system had malfunctioned and he was
not able to or was not aware of it till it caught up with him.
The last email I had was james was in one of the stupid years when I
fired off over things in general.
I forgot what it was about.
He swore at me, and seemed to be completely burned at the stake.
this was shortly before he quit.
So what happened?
I know what happened via list mail, but if thats all via list mail is
it the entire truth.
Nowe we are mostly wiser, maybe its safe to revisit the mystory.
I am in 2 minds about getting james back should the opertunity arrise
again though.
That is unless we can actually find out what going on.
All I know is whatever happened to get things to not go to plan it
must have been a monster thing in deed.
We may never know what that is but if there is a way to resolve this
mystory I'd be interested in that.
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