Interview with Tribes 1 Lead Designer Scott Youngblood

[@TribesAerialAssault]

This might be the best Tribes based interview I have ever heard. This guy is tops.

[@Laceon1]

Thanks again for hosting yesterday! Was tons of fun, too bad i missed out on him joining in lol. I just wish i could say thank you to him for working on the game that i spent half my childhood on. So good to see tribes making a comeback.

[@omgitsfishstix]

Thanks for coming through 🖖

[@spitezor]

Bro, you are taking me back so far. I remember interviewing Brandon Reinhart and asking him to explain heightmaps because of Tribes. I'm getting nostalgia overload. The late 90s/early 00s internet where smart people just shared ideas and discussed things - no algorithms. Corporate was still trying to figure out a way to monetize everything, meanwhile people my age were just scrambling to make something cool. "Oh you did this? Well I took your idea and I added X and Y!" I had ZERO idea the Dynamix guys were so young when they started. I remember playing Red Baron on the Amiga as a kid. It's insane to think Scott was literally just a year or two older than I was. I was writing articles about Tribes and other games, and a peer of mine was making the games I was obsessed with. Wild.

[@TweEkc]

To the guy who asked about how many engineers this game spawned, I may not be a dev or engineer, but my career in IT was definitely thanks to T1, T2 and the things I learned in goofing around with my PC, skins, etc

[@dmdmdm9329]

:raises-hand: another software engineer here who's very first look at code was through T2 scripting!

[@brooketohimself]

what a great moment you captured. tribes doesn't have to live in its IP, it is set loose in our imaginations.

[@tribes2archivist]

Awesome interview. The style is nostalgic, reminds me of hanging out in TeamSpeak and Ventrilo channels chatting with the fellas. Thanks to Scott, Fishstix and the other guys! 🍻

[@Xanhast]

awesome christmas gift, thanks fishstix and much love to youngblood for the game that defined my youth while giving me unreachable expectations for every game since!

[@chadtopia]

Thank you Scott and his team for everything you gave us, and everything that spawned because of this game. And great video Fishy

[@Kerplunklol]

Awesome interview! Tribes 3 was the first time I've played a Tribes game in many years. Horribly disappointed how it turned out but I might have to go back to the old ones since it seems like they got a boost.

[@hungidybobo]

Wanted to add that I did NOT make snow blind, Mark Frohnmayer made that map initially, I just massaged it for gameplay when we understood skiing more. Same with rain dance.

[@AlsoGreth]

don't mind me, just using this interview as a checklist.

[@lifetotheminimal1211]

Great to see Tribes content this good, keep it up 👍

[@Superkuh2]

He did Firefall too? No wonder the jetpacks in that felt so nice.

[@CarbonBallas]

Ohhh yeah!

[@JohnKerbaugh]

"Freedom to play the game that you wanted to play. That's what tribes has always been."

[@slumcore3921]

Damn, i thought a very merry discmas was already over, but here we are! Always thought it was cool he let that silly little bug persist in their neato team game 💖

[@Synaps4]

Around 20:30 they are talking about the e3 demo for tribes 2 and something about water...but I went back and looked at the T2 E3 demo and there is no water in it. I don't get it.

[@tribes2archivist]

I've been thinking about this interview and I think my one big question would be - why was the base game/mod slow for Tribes 2? Classic very quickly became the 'standard' mod that everyone played. My favourite 'fun fact' about Tribes 2 is that the light female player model has a broken left ankle. Once you see it, you'll never unsee it.

[@omgitsfishstix]

That's a great question. Maybe next time

[@chadtopia]

Also, where did u get tribes1 client u are using? i like the faves for inventory

[@omgitsfishstix]

It's the default one on playt1.com

[@chadtopia]

@ thx fishy

[@Aikionen]

VGCR Scott!

[@tacolover5000]

I think its neat that it beat quake. people still play t3

[@Barret-y7c]

Tribes RPG 😀

[@meathead_gamin]

What was the downfall of the game? After T2 I could not get my hands on a competitive shooter ever! Former Q3 arena and Unreal player. Tribes hit my market. It cannot be replaced. T3 felt good but was dumped once again. I was disappointed. What will it take to make it great again?

[@pauljackson112]

Same... I got into CS 1.6, UT (99, 2003 and 2004) but nothing ever filled the void left by T2. Those days were my personal golden era of gaming. I still miss T2 to this day - all the clan matches in particular. What a time to be a gamer.