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Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« on: February 05, 2011, 12:59:10 PM »


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-04-martyn-brown-quits-worms-dev-team17

After two decades at the helm of annelid annihilators Team17, Martyn Brown has left the Worms developer to work as an independent video game consultant, according to a post on his (private) Facebook page, as noted by Eurogamer. Brown co-founded Team17, which got its start developing games for the Amiga (before your time?).

"I had an amazing 20-year ride and whilst it's the end of a truly enjoyable period of my life, it equally signals the start of a really exciting new one," Brown posted before swinging away on a grappling hook, throwing a grenade, falling on that grenade and blowing himself up.
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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2011, 03:48:56 PM »
Ah, a midlife crisis!  He's probably shaved his head, bought a Harley and started dating an 18 year old tattooed barmaid with pierced nipples!

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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2011, 03:51:47 PM »
2 of them in fact :D
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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2011, 04:01:39 PM »
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Ah, a midlife crisis! He's probably shaved his head, bought a Harley and started dating an 18 year old tattooed barmaid with pierced nipples!
 
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That sounds like fun, I can't wait for my midlife crisis!:afro:
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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2011, 04:11:37 PM »
20 years is a long time to stay at any one company.

My mid life crisis shall be spent in Brazil where I will be on undesignated maneuvers.
« Last Edit: February 05, 2011, 04:15:09 PM by Crom00 »
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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2011, 04:21:38 PM »
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That sounds like fun, I can't wait for my midlife crisis!:afro:


I try and have one at least twice a year.
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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2011, 04:22:11 PM »
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My mid life crisis shall be spent in Brazil where I will be on undesignated maneuvers.


I can send you a map and some phone numbers.  ;)
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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2011, 05:15:52 PM »
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Ah, a midlife crisis!  He's probably shaved his head, bought a Harley and started dating an 18 year old tattooed barmaid with pierced nipples!

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2 of them in fact :D


2 pierced nipples? 2 18 year olds? or 2 Harleys?
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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2011, 05:33:56 PM »
yes
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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2011, 05:35:35 PM »
My favorite team 17 game is superfrog from '93
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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2011, 06:25:15 PM »
Lots of great games from those guys. Dug Superfrog. LOOOOVE the alien breed games. Enjoyed Assassin and Project X quite a bit.
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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2011, 06:29:44 PM »
Yeah T17 did at least try to use the chipset unlike many others in the 90s.
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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2011, 06:31:38 PM »
I usually pull out Alien Breed as an example of a "classic" amiga game. Lots of speech, lots of stuff going on, two player mode, a killer tune on the title screen, and loading times werent even that bad.

Just awesome :)

also, team 17 don't seem to have been scared of 2 button joystick either, so thats a plus!
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Re: Martyn Brown quits Team17 after 20 years
« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2011, 07:18:23 PM »
I justed posted about this on the chaosengine game dev site, and started a massive row!
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