How did you and Chris get connected?
TL;DRThe speaker's former boss, a friend of Chris Roberts, recommended them, and Roberts called them unexpectedly, which excited them as a fan of the Wing Commander games.
Well, my old boss had worked with him in the past, and then the company that I worked for lost the funding. And so I was unemployed. And so Chris was talking to his own peer and co-worker and friend, who happened to be my ex-boss, and told him about the project. And so he said, 'I know this kid that doesn't have a job, and he'll go for it.' With that recommendation, I got the phone call, and I did not expect it. It came out of absolutely nowhere. I'm at my friend's house, and I get this call, and it's Chris Roberts, and I'm like, 'Shut the dogs up. Everybody be quiet. Chris Roberts is on the phone.' And everyone's like, 'Yeah, right.' And sure enough.
So you knew who he was.
I knew who he was, yeah. Well, I knew who he was because I was a big fan of Mark Hamill and all that from the Wing Commander games. And so I thought the Wing Commander games were fun, but I was really into the fact that we had full motion video in a game. And I thought that was the coolest thing ever. And obviously, I liked Star Wars. I was drawn to it. And so when I knew that, I was like, oh my gosh, here we go. This is going to be a 3D version of that.