Retro ’Rents5 Feb 2021

The Retro Rents -- EP070 -- Neal Hallford, Part 1 - From Radio to Game Design

WOW! Where to even start with this one :) Nick and I had the incredible luck and pleasure to interview Neal Hallford, one of Game Design's greatest of all time (well, damn well so in my eyes).

Neal has been in the designer's seat for some of the most classic, beloved games of all time. His most well known work is Dynamix's Betrayal at Krondor, a game set during the time of Raymond E. Feist's incredible Riftwar Saga. This is a must play piece of gaming history if you've never done so, and it's available on GOG.

Our first part of this incredible interview with Neal covers his time in Radio, the people who influenced him as a young writer, and how doing radio dramas with his buddies brings him to work as a writer and designer at New World Computing (Might and Magic, or Planet's Edge ring a bell?)

Alright, don't want to give too much away. Just sit back y'all, and we hope you have as much fun listening to Neal as we did. He really is one of a kind.

Hosts on Deck: Al, Nick, Neal

Check out Neal's past and present projects:

- Planet's Edge: The Point of No Return (PC, available via GOG.com)

- Betrayal at Krondor (PC, available via GOG.com)

- Krondor Confidential (Neal's multi-part blog on Betrayal At Krondor's conception to release. We'll call it the companion to this interview :) )

- Swords and Circuitry - A Designer's Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games (Neal's book on game design!)

- Swords and Circuitry - The website for Neal's Production company (yea, he makes movie stuffs too!)

- The Case of Evil (An incredible short film inspired by the classic Universal Monster Horrors. On Prime too!)

- The Many Worlds of Neal Hallford (Neal's website! Go here to always catch the latest of what Neal might be up to, and follow his wonderful blog, too!)

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