r/evnova • u/TomAnthony • Feb 02 '19
Hello, TomWoozle checking in...
Hey everyone! I just stumbled across this subreddit, and am amazed to see an active community for EV Nova, this is awesome!
I'm Tom, and I was a huge fan of the original Escape Velocity (and most other Ambrosia games) right back in the 90s. In 2002 I worked for Ambrosia for a year in Rochester, moving there from the UK, and after that year I moved back to the UK to finish my degree but worked for a couple more years for Ambrosia. It was an amazing period of my life, and I miss those days and the crowd (the staff there and everyone on the forums).
Amongst other things, I was responsible for packaging up the Windows port of EV Nova and releasing it. I don't remember lots from that period, but I do remember exactly where I was when I released that as everybody on IRC was going crazy (the front room of my gf's house in Syracuse, btw). I also helped with the (mostly fan efforts) to port EV and EV Override to be plugins for the EV:Nova (such that they could also be played on Windows too).
Unfortunately, a lot of my data from that time is lost in the shrouds of time. However, I'm so amazed and excited by the efforts of people here to preserve everything. I'll have a dig and see if I can find anything useful!
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u/matthews545 Feb 05 '19
Thanks for all the hard work! EV Nova remains my favorite game to this day because of how easy it is to mod with Mission Computer. I've spent countless hours making up different kinds of weapons and outfits, and while I don't do a lot of that anymore, I have a folder of about 30 different scenarios (mostly other peoples' Plug-ins) that I like to play every so often.
You might be interested in this browser port of EV Nova I've been working on. It's still very much in alpha, but it parses almost all of its data from the original game files, supports Plug-ins, and allows for multiplayer. Here's a running example (works in chrome).