Topic: Killed By Darth - Kotorhead Tester Tee

Hi, I was a tester on KOTORs 1 and 2. I designed this image http://www.puppygang.net/kotorhead.jpg for the tester tee when we finished the first game. (Many developers and publishers print up shirts for their teams to celebrate the completion of a game. LucasArts was too cheap, so I volunteered to design it and found a t-shirt shop to print them for us. The testers paid for their own shirts)

Anyhow, I thought folks here might dig it. The original shirt was a baseball tee with the KOTORHEAD on the front and a list of "tour dates" on the back with the birth dates and places of the test team, as well as the release dates of the Xbox and PC version. I'm now selling T-shirts, mouse pads, and other stuff with the KOTORHEAD image at Puppy Petshop - Kotorhead. There you can also check out the movie PUPPY, which was written, produced, directed by, and starred many of the KOTOR 1 and 2 testers.

I know a lot of folks rag on testers for the bugginess of the games, and on Obsdian for some of the shortcomings of Sith Lords. For the record, the guys at Obsidian are an awesome, creative, INCREDBILY hardworking bunch who were hamstrung by budget and scheduling choices made to ensure that Battlefront supplanted Kotor as LucasArts' flagship title. As for the testers, we did the best we were able.

Thanks for taking the time to check out my art, I hope you like it.

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If you are the real deal then I only have 1 question for you. When is KOTOR 3 comming out?

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lol good point Jester and as a Motorhead fan, i have mixed feelings about the shirt

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I like MotorHead too.

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Well, I quit about 3 years ago, so I couldn't tell you much about K3, other than that it's gonna be an MMO so I don't know why you'd want to bother with it.

I'm a much bigger fan of Motorhead than I am of Star Wars, so I think I can sympathize with your mixed feelings. Still, it's a game I'm proud to have worked on, and I'm happy with how the design came out. I hope that doesn't sound full of myself - I'm just putting it out there for anyone else who'd like it.

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They are f***in stupid if they make KOTOR 3 a MMO and not like the other 2 KOTOR games. Why did you quit being a game tester and how did you become a game tester?

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that's what i'm wondering...  :huh:  :blink:

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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news - yeah, K3's been confirmed as an MMO for some time, I guess the official announcement's coming soon...

http://kotaku.com/5058398/kotor-mmo-rev … this-month

I became a tester 'cause a friend of mine from school was a tester, he got the job from a friend as well - I think a good two thirds of testers come in that way. I could write a novel on the reasons I quit, but it was also so I could work full time on my movie Puppy

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Okay, Good luck with you movie.  big_smile

What is Puppy about?

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Thanks! It's actually been finished for a while now... It's an 80s-style horror movie about a killer puppy adopted by a household of foxy coeds. Really high-brow, cerebral stuff. About half the people involved in it worked on Kotor and/or K2...

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So it is like KuJo mixed with Animal House. Is Puppy only online or are you going to put it out on DVD? If it is comming out on DVD then where can I get it?

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if you still  know him tell the guy in charge of bioware To make Kotor 3

Froget the light Or dark side Join the Ferret side

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George Lucas has to give the okay for them to make KOTOR 3 because he owns everything Star Wars.

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