What computer games feature the offices of the game developer inside the game?
I can’t remember the name of it. Late 1980’s or early 1990’s there was a strange video-based adventure game for PC and Mac, using Quicktime technology, about a human soldier on an alien planet. He and all his squad mates had to wear special pressure suits because the enemy would take over their minds without them. He loses his pressure suit, and finds out that the suit was actually creating illusions for him. The planet, and the people, are not what he thinks. With the suit he thinks he’s fighting against insects. Without it, he discovers that they look like humans, and the planet is a lot more lush and green than he had thought. Most of the characters in it were real people filmed in front of green-screen, matted into rendered backgrounds. The was particularly strange because at the beginning there’s a kind of montage of different images, and if you clicked on that montage at different points, there were alternative parallel stories that got told, entirely different. One of them featu
Sacred 2 has a well-hidden side quest in which you find the developers’ offices, and then have to talk to around a hundred NPCs (named after the developers) all around the world to convince them to get back to work on the sequel.
