Given the deeply personal nature of that meeting, I won’t spill the beans on everything, but a few of the things his mother told me were: It was a powerful meeting, she told me stories about William I had never heard before, and I found out a few things that made his death a bit sadder in some ways. Told her that I know she wouldn’t ever play it, but that wasn’t the point. Anyway, because of all that, I wanted her to have a copy of the game that her son worked on in a big way in its formulative days. Now I know William’s work didn’t survive into the final version of the game, but the legacy of the product has his name on it, and Prey was dedicated to his memory, much in the same way that Interceptor did with ROTT in 2013. One was a photo album I threw together of pictures of her son from his time at our company. What I wanted to do was present her with two gifts. He arranged a meeting with William’s mother, Pearle. I lucked out and wrote back the guy who emailed me four years previous, and he was still there. William spent a lot of time in the earliest days of Prey, and it is for that reason, and for my old friend that some years later after Prey game out in 2006 that I had a thought. When the ROTT team moved on to Prey before that original incarnation fell apart, William was the original engine guy and our lead programmer (as Mark Dochtermann had gone). I only mention this because if you know my ROTT 20th article, this part will be familiar to you. I’m going to include it here, because it sets up perfectly why I’m writing today. But that’s not why I’m writing today, I wanted to write a note about his mother, Pearle.Ī few years back when Rise of the Triad had its 20th birthday, I wrote a large segment about meeting Pearle some years after William had died. I wish my old friend was with us now, could use one of William’s patented belly laughs. That was really sad, and whenever I turn my thoughts to the past, I’m sad about that. Those of you who have followed my stories about my days at Apogee/3DR will know one of my friends then was the late William Scarboro.
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