I hope you're still watching from home
and are excited to hear a little bit
more about Jurassic world evolution
which I'm sure the answer is a
collective yes in the chat right now so
I'm here with executive producer and
Gary Richard how are you I'm good thanks
yeah yeah yeah how the extra Winfrey oh
it's been fantastic it's always great to
come to things like this and meet the
community and hear about their
experiences within the games that we
make and the frontier back catalogue
I really am walking down seeing all the
old games museum from to amuse yeah so
for people at home that there might be
an image of on front of social media or
something but we have this beautiful
wall and all of the PCs running the game
since 1984 like all of the frontier
games and it's been such a stunning trip
down memory lane and obviously you've
worked on quite a lot of them I kind of
meant yeah it was great to see the
original elite running on a BBC be on
and I remember having those monitors at
college and then all the other games
that frontier has worked on there's some
great memories there have you had a
chance to see any of the panel yes so I
saw the sat and watched them all and I
mean the guys that did the Jurassic
world evolution panel like Nick and and
that was just fantastic oh they did such
a great job and the crowd reaction to
the in-game trailer that they showed at
the end was just awesome the first-ever
look that we just had an address
exciting and you've been through some of
these community events before you went
to leave Congress and yes some of those
things so how does it feel to have
frontier Expo this is our own yeah I
can't believe that the company has grown
so much and that you know we're putting
on an event like this and we've got I
think it's a thousand there's so many
people out there and everyone is so
enthusiastic about the games that we do
you kind of sometimes lose focus of that
when you sound at your desk in the
office working all the hours that we and
the whole team more work and then to
meet the people that are playing your
games it kind of helps you realize that
what you're doing is affecting people's
lives and there are people that are so
enthusiastic about what it is yeah the
games that we're making yeah yeah we
have an incredibly passionate and loving
community and I completely agree with
you
so Jurassic world evolution yes you're
obviously working on this how do you
feel now that the content is out there
we can talk about things so it's been an
interesting thing to work on it's such a
fantastic franchise to work on a mean
frontier has a great history of doing
and putting animals in games you know
all the way back to 2004
dog's life and then I was lucky enough
to work on kinectimals yeah all those
lovely little furry cats and bears they
were just amazing and then a wide range
of animals that was in Zoo Tycoon and so
it's an opportunity for us to bring our
skills to amazing franchise I mean whoo
I mean what's not to love about
dinosaurs I don't know it's just amazing
I mean I remember one of my earliest
memories of primary school is tracing a
triceratops out of a big dinosaur book
and it's been my favorite dinosaur ever
since I think it might be Nick Nick
Rogers favorite dinosaur as well in
animation because of this oh yeah I mean
it appears in the trailer I think more
often than I think the Raptors appear ok
and now we know why the Triceratops is
definitely in there
that's awesome and then what makes so
yeah you already kind of touched upon my
frontier would be a great flipper for
this
because we have that history and we have
those games under our belt so to be able
to do this and bring Jurassic world
evolution to life is you know both an
honor but also kind of a challenge for
us as a company and I can't imagine so
Andrew he he talked us through some of
the things that we're gonna be seeing we
have this really really cool image that
he's shown us on the on the big screen
as well with the beautiful pyramid in
the back and the dinosaurs in the rain
so what what are we seeing you what is
what's going on
so Jurassic world is the game is set on
I love noubar and over the five islands
or the five deaths as the fans will know
the math and the idea is to the goal of
the game is to follow in the dreams of
John Hammond and Claire Dearing and
create your own Jurassic world
so that's extracting DNA from fossils
that you send expeditions out to kick
those fossils up and then you have that
DNA and you can bioengineer your own
dinosaurs with that
you've got Park infrastructure that you
need to build we've got to maintain your
infrastructure whilst all these things
are being bioengineered
because things things are happening to
the player I mean you can you can see it
in that in that image that we showed a
little bit but like there's diagnosed
sores are breaking free and stuff is
going on like there's a certain amount
of of management that's the players need
to do right all of the three tiers we
have entertainment security and science
yes so how you choose to play the game
that influences your reputation within
each of those divisions and so I think
as Mike alluded to on the panel
entertainment is the classic you know
using dinosaurs to attract guests and
visitors to the park
science is researching dinosaur genomes
and security is making sure you've got
the skills to kind of manage and look
after these dangerous animals that
you're creating very exciting oh yes and
there we can see this amazing database
as well so we have access to the engine
database so what can what can we see
here that kind of shapes shapes people's
gameplay so we've been as soon as we
realized that we were well as soon as I
realized I was working on Jurassic world
evolution I watched all the films oh
yeah and all the team have been reading
the books and pouring over the films and
you know working with our partners at
Universal we've managed to dig into all
the wonderful jurassic law exists for
this this license and you know we've
managed to put all of that into the
engine database and you know there's
going to be loads of information for the
fans that are familiar with the license
and the films and the books to dig into
and you know hopefully there'll be some
things in there that they'll be able to
find out oh yeah totally I know I know
they will people were will be all over
it and of course the star of that that
amazing panel that we did was that
beautiful beautiful in-game footage that
we never showed again such an amazing
job for the team to get that video ready
so and why don't we take another look at
at that in-game footage again and we'll
discuss afterwards yes
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so again completely speechless after the
video and we've been joined by sneaky
guest Edward Lewis who's joined us on
the sofa hello people have seen you on
the mainstage all day yes yes they did
and I am exhausted we'll get to you in a
sec first let's talk about the real
stars of what we just saw the amazing
dinosaurs events in game right I can't
the dinosaurs are incredible I mean the
way that they look and some of the shots
that are in that trailer you know the
way the Raptors all move around the
ankylosaur that's just so graceful wait
put my favorite part of the way it's
yeah and then there's a bit the t-rex
when the t-rex is sleeping this is the
sleeping t-rex is like does anyone fancy
a pet t-rex you can just have curled up
in front of the fire and it's just
sleeping there like a normal animal
that's the whole thing about okay Doris
and the whole thing like yeah have you
ever wanted to own a dinosaurs a pet I
think that's that's such an interesting
way of life as you will have your own
dinosaurs as pets and it is so awesome
that were able to finally talk about it
when my because my kids obviously know
what I do and they've spent the last six
months going what are you working on
can't tell you really you've made your
own children I can't because they'll
tell someone somewhere and then when we
could show when their teaser trailer was
announced and I could finally sit down
and show them that my I've got my
daughter 16 my son's 11 and they were
both just absolutely gobsmacked and it's
just yeah we made them we'd watched all
the films when I knew I was working on
Jurassic world evolution we sat down and
watched all the films together and when
we re watched the teaser trailer a
couple of times and Sophie then tweaked
and went oh is that why you made us
watch all those films and it's like well
yes but that doesn't and you'll know
you're rumbled that doesn't mean the
next set of films I sit down and watch
great of course now all they want to
know is when they can play test it so
that yeah so basically if you want to
like play Jurassic world early you gotta
pop Gary's family
any any any nice things you want to say
to the all-new Jurassic world evolution
community that we're taking in you I
think I mean from the gameplay footage
and in it I know we're we're saying this
a lot it is from I mean that's what they
look like in the game you know I look at
the game on my PC in the office and
that's what I look like I mean it's
incredible but it's not just the way
that they look it's the way that they
move the way they sound the way they
behave that just sort of really brings
them to life and you know if you're
gonna bioengineer a t-rex and you better
make sure you keep it happy because you
know we all know from the films what
happens when t-rex gets angry don't want
to be anywhere near fair enough so yeah
absolutely amazing Jurassic world
evolution Summer 2018 on PC Xbox one and
PlayStation 4 nice how was your ex will
be and I've barely seen you today
so I've mainly been on the main stage
area and we I've been comparing the main
stage really did the welcome speech for
David's then we did we had the guest
speakers come on so we had Jack Horner
talking about paleontology which was so
good yeah and that you've got to speak
to Jack how was that was he was he a
little fangirl moment yeah he's super E
I didn't realize yeah whatever oh that
guy so the coolest man yes I'm just
gonna see whatever I want thank me I
thought that was one of the most bizarre
things I highlight of the day because I
found about
reality it was just so strange I walked
past at the point I had a little break
yeah walk past and as I was walking fast
I thought we didn't book a folk singer
did we
he's just sitting there with the guitar
like singing it to you was amazing