{"id":42407,"date":"2019-08-29T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=42407"},"modified":"2024-06-20T14:55:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T18:55:48","slug":"the-continuing-adventures-of-john-hammond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-continuing-adventures-of-john-hammond\/","title":{"rendered":"The continuing adventures of John Hammond"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1998, EA Games released Jurassic Park: Trespasser<\/i>, a PC game best known today for being \"that one where your health bar is 'looking at your own boobs'<\/a>.\" The plot involved staring down your cleavage<\/s> Anne, the sole survivor of a plane crash on the island from Jurassic Park 2<\/i>, trying to call for help and get rescued. Like Jurassic Park itself, the game failed because it was trying to exploit fantastic new technology: not dinosaur cloning, but a realistic physics engine. Its existence was influential on games like Half-Life<\/i><\/a>, but it's nothing on its own.<\/p>\n

However, the game has its fans, and a group called the Trespasser Hacking Society<\/a> has been working for years on modernizing it into something that's, you know, playable<\/b>. They've made new levels, cleaned up old ones, and tried to turn the physics engine into something functional. But while going through the game's files, they found something extremely interesting.<\/p>\n

One of the features of the game was Anne finding bits of John Hammond's<\/a> memoir, which you can read the transcript of here<\/a>. You didn't have to read them in the game, however, because they were actually voiced by Richard Attenborough himself, making them as close to a canon story as possible. Well, the THS has managed to find copies of these files, and is working on stitching them all together in a cohesive narrative without the extraneous post-processing \"voice over\" effects. It'll be worth keeping an eye on the project to see how it turns out when they complete it.<\/p>\n

Edit: and now they have!<\/p>\n