[ccoffin]

[TheRedEye]

So...do you go by Chris? Because that's what we refer to you as in our Sonic X-Treme article, I want to make sure it's accurate.

[ccoffin]

No i don't go by chris anymore, my previous work (game credits) lists me as chris, so chris can refer to me in the past tense in those cases.

Its a good thing I always wanted to be known as christina and not another name like michelle which would confuse the issue further

[James]

Ah, my bad. Anything so much as rumoured about this project seems to take on an internet life of it's own, so I checked your Moby profile and assumed it was misinformation. My apologies :D

One thing I am interested in is that a few of the early plot drafts Chris Senn put up seemed to inform the plot of Sonic Adventure - was anythig worked on by you later used in part by the Dreamcast game?

[ccoffin]

The moby profile was written by me, but yeah its expected for people to make assumptions about the gender of who im married to.

After xtreme was shelved and my health recovered,
I did some prototype work for another character game that was designed by one of the game designers of a previous sonic game ('yasuhara' dont remember the rest of his name) but I was not interested in, nor involved in any other sonic work.

I passed on some of my saturn tricks to SoJ R&D to improve the Sega Graphics Library (SGL) before getting involved in r&d work around the dreamcast hardware (grilling the videologic/PVR guys to make their graphics core more 'game programmer friendly', doing some technical oversight work.

[taiki]

[JSzczep]

Wow, the Sonic Xtreme saga never seems to end. Everything involved with it has more layers than you first think.

And I'm not trying to be poetic, I'm very serious. Everything I've seen relating to this game gets more and more confusing.

[ProgrammingAce]

This isn't really the place to get too far into the details, but i offered assembler $10,000 for the disc. I told him i would need proof that what he was saying was real, especally for that kind of cash. He told me that he didn't need to prove anything to me. He implied that i should just take him at his word without so much as a picture of the disc or a screenshot. Then he came out and said that the seller was 'spooked' and didn't like all the publicity he was getting from the supposed sale.

Which, of course, doesn't make any sense. According to assembler this second seller came out of hiding when he saw how much money the first disc sold for. Which is only because of how much publicity the sale had. So the idea that the seller suddenly became 'spooked' after only 12 hours is rediculous.

And you would think that if i had put a $10,000 offer on the table, assembler would have passed it along as he said he did, then the next logical step would have been for the seller to contact me in private. Since i'm hedgehog free... you can draw your own conclusions.

[ccoffin]

A 'full copy' or something resembling an entire copy of the sonic xtreme game doesn't exist really. During development I split the source/assets up into single level standalone packages, boss rounds included to prevent a large scale 'leak' as a personal security measure.
The assembler disc is one of 3 cd burns made very early on that was just a 'rendering tester' - the contents of that disc are woefully sparse in comparison to later test burns and development. One of the discs was stolen from a breakin of my rental car during lunch when I was visiting the satellite office of STI up in orange county discussing integration of their 'saturn sonic R&D' into xtreme.

The only way something resembling a complete build of xtreme would surface would be from the direct involvment of 1 person that had the split source+assets. With all that said, your $10k reward will most likely never be claimed.

[ccoffin]

[ProgrammingAce]

[borkbork]

10k would seem like a fake and ridiculous offer to anyone...

Good luck on getting the pc version out.

[JSzczep]

I have to admit, having spoken with assembler at length, I am finding the claims made against him a little hard to believe.

[TheRedEye]

You mean when you were interviewing him for your overly embellished and positive article about his "community?" Yeah, I'll bet he was a real stand up guy for that.

As for "claims" made against him, did you miss the part where he tried to get an innocent man fired for merely having a tangential relationship to an april fool's prank? That's not a claim, that's a fact.

[borkbork]

Didn't that prank crash his server for days? From what I read chris was in on the prank too.

[Li Wang]

[Fredde]

Yeah, very sorry for the thread-necromancy, but there's one thing I can't figure out about this whole mess, and haven't been able to find answers about anywhere I've looked. Most accounts of the whole debacle goes something like "Sonic Cult does April's fools joke, some Cultists get angry" and then "some Cultists DDOSes ASSEMbler". But how are those two thing connected? Why did the Cultists attack ASSEMbler for something that Sonic Cult did?

I totally understand if you don't want to discuss this stuff anymore, but I'd be very gratefull if someone would explain the connection between the prank and the DDOS.

[rbudrick]

Assembler does find some incredible stuff...really incredible stuff. However, I have first-hand experience that he has a habit of being a thief and a liar and often only makes right when publicly embarrassed. So, the lesson is, don't ever believe ANYTHING he says without proof.

-Rob

[Fredde]

[iamstillhiro1112]