Original Design Document for The Lost World: Trespasser Going Online October 13, 2010

The original design document (in Prose form) is in the process of being released for The Lost World: Trespasser.  For those of you not stuck in 1997, let me tell you a little blurb.  This game, which is based on the Jurassic Park franchise, is notorious for being one of the biggest upsets in gaming history.  It promised to be revolutionary, and in a lot of ways it was, but the final product was just a buggy and rushed mess.  However it was an inspiration for physics based games like Half-Life 2, and without this game, real-time physics would proabably be ten years away.

I fondly remember first seeing the game during my Junior year of High School.  A friend of mine had rigged one of the computers in our English class with the Trespasser demo and he would play it on a loop every time the teacher was absent.  This was of course back in the day where any PC of the time could run any game (Intel wrecked that in ’99 when they decided to force unsuspecting customers to use their lousy obsolete graphics boards and PC gaming hasn’t recovered since).

Don’t know anything about The Lost World: Trespasser?  Let me let ResearchIndicates tell you about it.  If you are further interested you should definatly check out his Let’s Play of it, very informative.

You can check out the design document on this website, TresCom.  Currently 6 parts are up, and they promise there will be 13 in total.  A new one will be released every Monday.