Nightmare Circus
From Sega Retro
To do
- Add screenshots and sprites.
CartridgeCulture (talk) 09:55, 13 July 2023 (EDT)
- Funcom stories..."In the spring of 1994, Johan goes to a copy party in Oslo. Funcom is there to recruit new talent. He sees his chance and sends in an application with a floppy disc containing some demos. It all happens quickly. Carl-Henrik Skårstedt remembers it as a crazy process. - "We had a game design document of over 1000 A4 pages in a binder given to us by SEGA and we programmers had leafed through the design and decided that we didn't want to do this. When we spoke to our HR manager, he said that a new programmer [Johan Andersson] would start next week. We wondered who had interviewed him, but we had forgotten. It went pretty well anyway, but the poor guy got to be the main programmer for a game no one else wanted to make. The design was a test by SEGA to see if it would work well to finish the entire design before anyone started programming and graphics. That idea worked just as badly as it sounds. The project is a very ambitious action platform game called Nightmare Circus. - Nightmare Circus is really a game that would have benefited from having a producer," says Johan Andersson. "That was the company's biggest disadvantage, that they hired producers to manage projects, but they had zero knowledge of game development and didn't know how to manage people. None of us coders had even reached the age of 21 and were sitting as lead programmers. Our producer just worked on our game, but didn't do any planning and didn't talk to us very much. Then he quit and we were completely without project management for six months before our publisher sent over people to take over the project on site. But we were DONE! Despite the good results, SEGA decided to release Nightmare Circus only on its cable service SEGA Channel in North America and on cartridge via Tec Toy in Brazil."--Asagoth (talk) 17:13, 13 November 2023 (EST)
User:CartridgeCulture learns basic formatting
Nightmare Circus dismystified - Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHTfV6e_hXE
Having a lot of trouble with both the proper text link, and the reference for this YouTube video. EDIT: Thank you for this and for fixing that youtube link! CartridgeCulture (talk) 02:01, 20 March 2021 (EDT)
- Template:Ref ... to add your signature (with date and time) to a conversation, add four tildes (~) at the end of each of your replies (in the not too distant past, you just needed to click on an icon at the top of the page to add your signature , but this feature is "broken" and still needs to be fixed) --Asagoth (talk) 00:03, 20 March 2021 (EDT)
Is there a style guide for this wiki? Also is there a list of these special codes that we use for replacing words with other things? ALSO could you assist me in adding an Interviews section to this page, and then adding this into it?: https://segaretro.org/Interview:_Stefano_Arnhold_(2015-11-16)_by_Sega-16 I know there’s a wway to do it all properly and cleanly but I have no idea how to do it. Thanks if you can, appreciate all the help too c;
- Image tagging, Sega Retro templates, Help page... another good way to learn is to see how others do it (just look for a similar page to see how it was edited) ... if you have any more doubts about something just ask our Experts Black Squirrel and SorachiJirachi a.k.a. BSonirachi on Sonic Retro (Wiki Sysops) and Hivebrain (Administrator)... I'll add an interview section to Stefano Arnhold's page for you... and again... don't forget to add your signature at the end of each of your replies...Asagoth (talk) 07:11, 20 March 2021 (EDT)
Some observations...
In the back cover the story is told this way... :
- "The maniac Jester resurrected the El Diablo traveling carnival (it says "parque de diversões" which in Portuguese means "theme park"... a "traveling carnival" would be a "parque de diversões itinerante"... but that's exactly what we have in Nightmare Circus... a traveling carnival) from the flames of hell. Now, terrifying demons roam the carnival, spreading fear and destruction where once there were children and lots of fun.
- Only, Raven a native (American) with mystic and telepathic powers can defeat Jester and his followers in this carnival. Well, "fun" is not the most appropriate word to define this place..."--Asagoth (talk) 22:48, 22 December 2021 (EST)
- Thank you, this is awesome. I wanted text confirmation that Raven was Native American. Also those refs are so cool. I saw the missing photo of the dev team too, so sad :( Maybe if I send enough emails I can find whoever has the original :p 20:51, 23 December 2021 (EST)