Do You Know An FRD Employee?

FRD In the Fan Community

By Drifting

Free Radical Design loves to get involved with the fan community online. Why is this? Is it because they want to get a better idea of what the fans want in their games? Perhaps it's because they like to see people admire their work. Or is it just perhaps for the hell of it? Maybe a little bit of all of the above. In any case, I'm going to break it down and discuss each known case of an FRD employee's involvement with the online community.

David Conley

Conley was the first known case of an FRD employee posting on a fan forum. In the days of speculation about TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, Conley (aka RealWorld666) regularly posted information about FP before anyone else. Conley managed to keep up his ruse throughout TS3.net's reign, only revealing himself in its waning days. He left afterwards. Unfortunately, the Internet Archive has no record of RealWorld666's posts at TS3.net, although you can view an archive of that forum here.

Christian Marcussen

Here's a quote from Marcussen regarding how he was hired to compose the music for TSFP.

Hi guys... I'm glad some of you enjoy my music.

It is true that the music I did/do is different from what Graeme does.

With more emphasis on story, and a single main character, FRD felt that a more cinematic score would benefit story mode. So that's how it was approached and to the satisfaction of FRD I'm told. ;) I actually asked if I should emulate Graeme's style (which I think I could to some degree), but as I said - they wanted me to do more cinematic stuff.

To be honest I was always a little intimidated by talking on the job since I knew the techno/trace style established was well so loved. But in the end my task was to make something which suited the level, which for better or worse I hope succeeded.

Cheers.

Derek Littlewood