{"id":91805,"date":"2019-04-11T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/340669"},"modified":"2019-04-11T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T21:51:00","slug":"video-a-classic-game-postmortem-of-westwood-studios-command-conquer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/video-a-classic-game-postmortem-of-westwood-studios-command-conquer\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: A classic game postmortem of Westwood Studios&#8217; Command &amp; Conquer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four of the minds behind Westwood Studios&#8217; 1995 release <em>Command &amp; Conquer<\/em> sat down at GDC 2019 to share an&nbsp;hour-long deep dive into the creation of the influential real-time strategy game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In that talk, Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle, along with the game&#8217;s lead designer Erik Yeo, composer Frank Klepacki, and VP of product development Steve Wetherill walk through the early days of the studio and how the landmark strategy game came together.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a conversation that runs through the conception, development, and design of <em>Command &amp; <\/em><em>Conque<\/em>r, all while offering insights and anecdotes that may be helpful to fellow game developers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>&nbsp;and its accompanying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC&nbsp;already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/contact_us.php\">contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four of the minds behind Westwood Studios&#8217; 1995 release Command &amp; Conquer sat down at GDC 2019 to share an&nbsp;hour-long deep dive into the creation of the influential real-time strategy game.&nbsp; In that talk, Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle, along with the game&#8217;s lead designer Erik Yeo, composer Frank Klepacki, and VP of product development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}