Carbine Studios Staff Spotlight Q&A: Eric DeMilt
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What computer game, regardless of genre, seems to have had the greatest impact on your desire to work in the computer gaming industry?
[ED:] Wasteland - without a doubt! Wasteland was a post-apocalyptic role playing game and was the first computer game I really got sucked into. I'd played a lot of different games up until that point and had a lot of fun with them but Wasteland was the first one that really drew me into a world. My friends and I would play it for hours, each naming and developing a different member of the party and argued over what actions to take in combat (it was a turn based game.) and who got what loot (Ghetto MMO 3 high school kids and an Apple II.). Anyway, the game was brilliant and I was hooked but wanting to make games and actually turning it into a career still seemed pretty disconnected. It wasn't until I stared at Interplay as a tester a few years later and found myself working with some of the people who had developed Wasteland that I thought that making games was anything more than just a thing a lucky few got to do for a living.
I've still got a copy of the Wasteland Survival Guide, and the C64 version discs and manuals on my office bookshelf today.
