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Joseph 'Joe' Goodwin

I do still like to noodle around making games in my spare time. I like to experiment making games that don’t revolve around combat; seeing what other fun ways you can interact with a game world and the characters within it that don’t involve stabbing or shooting them. When not making or playing games, I like to keep active and keep fit. I really enjoy reading and love writing, though finding the time is hard with everything else as they are both activities that are very easy to lose time to! I grew up in the countryside and near to the sea so I find this sort of environment helps me relax; the fewer people around the better.

_favourite Game

Most Zelda mainline games

_favourite BOOK

Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks

_Currently learning

Procedural generation techniques for creating geometry / materials

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Earliest gaming memory?

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Playing Super Mario Bros on my brother’s friend’s NES and being in awe that you could actually control stuff that was happening on a TV screen (I was pretty young at the time!)

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What was the game that triggered you looking at games as a career?

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past – it sounds quaint now but at the time, I didn’t know a game world could feel so immersive. Specifically the opening story sequence where you break into the castle during the rain. It was the first game that felt like an experience to me.

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Game that has inspired you the most?

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Zelda: A Link to the Past

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What is the first game you worked on?

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Burnout Paradise

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Games you’re the proudest to have worked on?

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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010)

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If you weren't making games?

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I’d be a penniless writer living a hermit’s life by the sea.

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Top 3 games of all time?

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#1 - Legend of Zelda : Breath of the Wild =2 - Terranigma (look it up!) =3 - Dark Souls

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Hardest Game Boss?

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Malenia in Elden Ring. Took me many tens of attempts (maybe over 100). After I’d done that I couldn’t even bring myself to complete the game.