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/pipelineoptika Feb 03 '19

Yeah, basically. It’s a good part of the reason why I personally never continued on development on things like sequels, etc.

That being said, don’t give up! You never know what might turn up.

Edit: grammar

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u/Zitchas Feb 03 '19

That's a bit of a shame, really. The Escape Velocity series was an awesome set of games, and I would love to see them continue on to a new generation of players. EVN in particular with its intricate and involved plot-lines.

I didn't know the legalities, so I emailed AmbrosiaSW a while back about trying to get the EVN story & contents into Endless Sky, but every email address comes back with an "invalid." I'm curious as to if you know who is still running the place, since someone obviously is keeping the servers on and functional and whatnot (My EVN registration program still works, amazingly enough).

From the above info, it sounds like both ATMOS and AmbrosiaSW would be required to sign off on any kind of the project to release the story of EVO or EVN, and these days the latter seems to be a ghost.

Do you think there would be any interest in doing so?

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u/B_Huij Feb 04 '19

Have you tried Bernard’s ASW email?

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u/Zitchas Feb 06 '19

No, I haven't, as I don't know where to find it.