Developers' rooms in cRPGs

[Crooked Bee]

Tell me, Codexers: what developers' rooms in cRPGs do you remember and find memorable?

There is for instance the "Electronic Arts Funmap" in Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic that is supposed to represent the actual layout of the developers' offices.

In there, you even get attacked by "EA Roudies", which is kinda... appropriate.

In Chuck Bueche's Autoduel, you can visit the Manchester office of Origin Systems; I can't find any screenshots of that, though.
Then there's the New World Computing office dungeon in Might and Magic VI. (As well as in VII and VIII.)

For better or for worse, the NPCs don't attack you there. In fact, you can't interact with them at all. There is, however, some equipment you can find around the place.

"I'm the game designer! I drew you!"
Next I feel like mentioning the designer's room in Pokemon Red & Blue. (Yeah, it's a console title, but whatever.) And in Pokemon Black & White, like in Sentinel Worlds, you can even fight a game developer.

Any other interesting, or maybe obscure, examples?

 

[SCO]

there's a bonus dungeon in divine divinity that has the devs office.

The ending screen of qfg 1 had the devs as part of the audience (you could "look" at them too).

 

[abnaxus]

Dungeon Siege 2 had a secret level with all the devs.

 

[Castanova]

If I remember correctly, Sacred 2 had a VERY tedious questline that ended with you finding the developer's office, filled with NPC's representing each actual developer.

 

[Sceptic]

If I remember correctly, Sacred 2 had a VERY tedious questline that ended with you finding the developer's office, filled with NPC's representing each actual developer.

The tedious questline actually involved you hunting all the developers all over the map, and each time you found one he/she headed to the offices, where you could then go and find them.

Quake 2 had a developer room, IIRC right below the final boss fight.

MM7-8 also had NWC offices like 6 did.

 

[MMXI]

Ultima II was basically one huge developer room.

 

[deus101]

Does this count?

 

[DraQ]

as a cRPG? No.



In ONP (UT SP mod, derp at times, with worst voiceacting ever, but technically brilliant and imaginative) you have the best credit sequence ever.

In Morrowind there is head of the Scourge and M'Aiq who isn't retarded yet.

In Divinity 2 there is LibLarian.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

If I remember correctly, Sacred 2 had a VERY tedious questline that ended with you finding the developer's office, filled with NPC's representing each actual developer.

after I did the blind guardian quest I basically said fuck it to all optional sacred 2 quests from then on

everything from the concert cutscene down to the item rewards were horrible

and I say this as a fan of blind guardian

 

[deuxhero]

Did you seriously name your characters in that first game after SMT2 ones?

 

[Crooked Bee]

I did, but not seriously.

MM7-8 also had NWC offices like 6 did.

Then there's the New World Computing office dungeon in Might and Magic VI. (As well as in VII and VIII.)

Ultima II was basically one huge developer room.

Elaborate, please, 'cause I never played Ultima II. Was it, like, one huge Lord British's castle with all the Origin Systems employees inside?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

MMXI probably means the fact that U2 is basically a canon fanfic, where Garriot includes everything that even remotely sounded cool in his mind at the time.

@thread: This is the first one that comes to mind.

More pics below.

http://lparchive.org/Chrono-Trigger-(by-Coughing-Hobo)/Update%2059/

Garffix whore

 

[Excidium]

Awesome.

 

[asper]

in the old Ultima-clone VAMPYR you would get to heaven when you died, only to find the two game designers are God..

 

[spectre]

In Titan Quest you also had a "Secret Passage" thingy with boss monsters with developer nicknames.

 

[Crooked Bee]

I've only just found out that in M&M6's developers dungeon you can encounter Trip Hawkins, and guess what, he starts attacking you! So it's not only in Sentinel Worlds that the EA are so totally evil.

in the old Ultima-clone VAMPYR you would get to heaven when you died, only to find the two game designers are God..

Heaven as the devs' office? Good one.

Graphixx whore

Also, yeah, Chrono Trigger. Then there's Final Fantasy IV and its DS remake: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Developer's_Office

 

[mondblut]

There was a developers' office secret location made for 7.62, but in the end it wasn't included in the game, along with 2 other easter egg locations. It too represented actual layout (which wasn't much, 2 rooms and a corridor).

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Ah, FF2 / 4 and the dirty magazine in the bookshelf. I remember thinking that maybe I could take it if the developer guy didn't see me, like it was a puzzle or something. I think back then I didn't really understand the concept of easter eggs

Takashi Tokita also makes an appearance as the Game Designer again. Tokita enters battle as a Zombie and keeps repeating "IT WILL NEVER END..." After taking a lot of damage, he eventually says he wants to go home and starts to panic about programming bugs. He drops a Lustful Lali-ho upon defeat.

Kamichi as a Treasure Chest. He gives the player a Kilobyte of Memory, but he takes it back.

Kaoriko and Natsuko as White Mages. In battle, they're a Magma Tortoise and a Behemoth respectively. They attempt to use the Band "Lonely Developer", but it fails. After retreating, Kaoriko says that she hopes that a particular man in her life will address her as a pig one day.

what

 

[DraQ]

In TES better part of the pantheon is comprised of devs' personal characters.

 

[Sceptic]

MM7-8 also had NWC offices like 6 did.

Then there's the New World Computing office dungeon in Might and Magic VI. (As well as in VII and VIII.)

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE. Somebody shoot me already.

Elaborate, please, 'cause I never played Ultima II. Was it, like, one huge Lord British's castle with all the Origin Systems employees inside?

No, he meant the whole game is full of computer personalities from the era. The entire thing is basically one big 1982 joke. Neptune had a town called Computer Camp where most of them hang out and LB made fun of them one way or the other (the one I always remember is Robert Woodhead shouting COPY PROTECT! COPY PROTECT!)

 

[DraQ]

MM7-8 also had NWC offices like 6 did.

Then there's the New World Computing office dungeon in Might and Magic VI. (As well as in VII and VIII.)

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE. Somebody shoot me already.

I refuse.

 

[MMXI]

Elaborate, please, 'cause I never played Ultima II. Was it, like, one huge Lord British's castle with all the Origin Systems employees inside?

No, he meant the whole game is full of computer personalities from the era. The entire thing is basically one big 1982 joke. Neptune had a town called Computer Camp where most of them hang out and LB made fun of them one way or the other (the one I always remember is Robert Woodhead shouting COPY PROTECT! COPY PROTECT!)

Yes, this. Andrew Greenberg is in it too. Owen K. Garriott (Richard's father) is in it somewhere asking you if you've seen his shuttle. Richard Garriott (as himself and not Lord British) is somewhere in it, saying "tomorrow for sure", indicating that the release date kept getting pushed back. Two people, Margot Tommervik and Al Tommervik are somewhere in the game and, according to the Ultima wiki, they were founders of an Apple II software magazine. Chuck Bueche is obviously Chuckles. There are also lots of other people who have names matching people in the credits. There's a Debra in there somewhere and a Howie who asks you if Ultima II is finished yet. Keith Zabalaoui was listed in the credits as a programmer and appears in the game telling you that he's "never done this before", indicating it's his first computer game.

It's all rather retarded really.

 

[Damned Registrations]

When you beat SaGa Frontier with all the characters, you get to go to a special room after the ending, filled with the developers and some neat stuff, like a bunch of the bosses available to fight, including some that never made it into the game.

http://lparchive.org/SaGa-Frontier/2nddiv.html

It's actually a rather massive amount of stuff, considering some of the crap they never finished in the game proper...

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Then there's the New World Computing office dungeon in Might and Magic VI. (As well as in VII and VIII.)

For better or for worse, the NPCs don't attack you there. In fact, you can't interact with them at all. There is, however, some equipment you can find around the place.

Actually, one or two of them DO attack you. Also, one or two of the NPC are many times more tougher than the others, so you may decide to "interact" with the dev team by slaughtering everyone, and suddenly finding that some of them are tougher than your entire party.