Mariah Beckman, GIZORAMA - "Husband and wife team Annie and David Fox started Electric Eggplant in 1992 in order to support their work in educational software, mobile device apps, and other award-winning multimedia endeavors. GIZORAMA recently had the pleasure of reviewing Rube Works: The Official Rube Goldberg Invention Game. We couldn’t get enough! So we reached out to video game developer David Fox of Electric Eggplant about his work on Rube Works, as well as what’s next from Electric Eggplant."
In an era where pixels ruled the screen and creativity sparked the imagination, a few names stand out as trailblazers in the gaming industry – David Fox is undoubtedly among them. As a co-founder of LucasArts, Fox played a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of gaming, leaving an indelible mark with iconic titles that continue to resonate with players worldwide. Join Sector as he shares captivating stories about the birth of LucasArts and the enthralling narratives behind some of the industry's most beloved classics.
eh…Gilbert, Purcell Schaffer were the trail blazers in that crew. David, while he did do some stuff once, like a real long ass time ago is more like b-list personality that specializes in reminiscing and signing ops at a convention.
Booger Hunt. George Lucas avoiding tax penalties. Monkey Island and dependency charts. The Lost Patrol. A file drawer full of crazy ideas. This is the story about life at Lucasfilm Games - as told by the people who lived it.
I thought the reason they didn't release any Star Wars games for the first 10 years was that Lucas had sold the exclusive license for games to other companies and couldn't legally do it.
Sometime in the 90s they got the Star Wars license back and after that, they didn't seem interested in making anything but Star Wars games
Destructoid:"Last Sunday's Sup Holmes is required listening/viewing for anyone interested in the history of videogames and/or interesting people. David Fox spent an hour and a half with us and we still barely scratched the surface of his amazing career. From starting a non-profit agency in the 1970's that aimed to make computers accessible to everyone, to becoming the third ever employee of LucasFilm Games (later to become LucasArts), to creating the first flight sim to use procedurally generated fractal landscapes, to working with Douglas Adams on the official Labyrinth game, to writing with Orson Scott Card for an AR adventure experience that was way ahead of its time, the stories just kept getting more and more unbelievable as we went on."
