Interceptor
Renegade Legion
Role
Additional Programming: Tools
Responsibilities
Rewrote our obsolete game installer in x86 assembly language, reducing the shipping disks footprint and providing the company substantial savings* on their retail cost-of-goods.
*Literally more than my yearly salary!
I joined Strategic Simulations (SSI) as a Game Programmer as my first game job in the game industry. The company was still using BASIC and Pascal for its games and tools. My first contributions at the studio included rewriting a couple of game installers, but also building a suite of dev tools and a tiling-graphics engine that were used in multiple games.
Game
Renegade Legion Interceptor
Description
Red-hot tactical combat in the cold venom of space! Wage a campaign of galactic struggle between the Terran Overlord Government and the Renegade Legions.
Renegade Legion: Interceptor was a straight translation of the titular turned-based board game from FASA, where two players to fight each other with a squadron of starfighters. The Interceptor computer game also contained a ship creation generator, providing players the ability to produce custom ships.
Sources: Cover, Wikipedia
Release Year
1990
Genre
Turn-based Strategy
Platforms
PC
