A brand, spankin' new interview with the fabled Hal Barwood has been conducted by the forces behind Adventure Classic Gaming. The results are just crackerjack, as you can see:
What is the extent of your collaboration with Noah Falstein on Mata Hari?And no, I don't know when Mata Hari will be released in territories beyond Germany either, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Which you can do while reading the full interview!
We worked closely together for months on the story and design, and then I wrote the dialog�in English yet, even though the first market is Germany. So everything was then translated back into German by Ziggy Fielder.
How has this experience differed from your previous collaboration with him on Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis?
They were similar experiences. The main difference, I think, is that Noah was ushering me into the world of professional game development back when we did Fate, and this time we�ve both been working in the business for many years. That means a lot of the ideas that go back and forth do so in a kind of old-friend shorthand.