I went on a lengthy vacation in May of 1995 and came back with a fresh outlook and fresh set of eyes on the game and was able to better appreciate the animations.
We finished most of the game and just sat on it for a few weeks. We took the project all the way to completion. Mike Fernie, was the new lead, and I was his #2. I came back from a long Christmas trip abroad and found out that the Garfield project had been completely rebooted. Steven was the lead programmer on the Garfield project. The search for other licensed characters made Garfield a really valuable property, especially in the 90s when Garfield was such a popular comic. It was a clone of Virgin's earlier game, "Mick and Mac Global Gladiators" but their success at bringing the Disney animation over had created quite a stir. I was hired as part of that expansion when Steve referred me.įor the Garfield project, do you recall exactly when you got on board and how long were you on it for?ĭisney's Aladdin had come out for multiple game systems and it set a very high standard for game animation. This meant that they'd also want to grow that division and send more game projects. A friend of mine, Steve Lashower (this name will come up later), had been working for a company that Sega had contracted out to make some games, and Sega eventually purchased that company.
This got me into programming and many years later, that became a career. I started programming on an old Atari home computer that my parents weren't buying me games for, and I realized that I'd have to make my own games. I got into the game industry because that's how I got into computers. This interview was conducted by Billscat-socks in 2015.įirst, can you give a brief history about how you got into the game industry? How did you end up at Sega, and what was your time there like? Pravin Wagh is a video game programmer who has worked for Sega and other studios on titles such as Garfield: Caught in the Act for the Sega Genesis and Spawn for the Xbox.
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