Ultra opened this issue on Jun 05, 2005 ยท 22 posts
hauksdottir posted Sun, 05 June 2005 at 11:39 PM
Khai, Let's go back to a couple of the characters I made for Ultima Underworld 2... the bats which burst into flame and the pain-in-the-neck spotted cats. The company which built the game was known as Blue Sky at the time, but had to change it because of conflicts with another Blue Sky (like 2 game companies which both thought that "tsunami" was a great name). So Blue Sky became Looking Glass Technologies, and the game was published under that name. They were acquired by Origins, which was acquired by Electronic Arts. So... do I say that I built and animated those critters for EA? Nope. My resume lists company names at the time of the project (name on the check) because I frankly don't want to keep track of who is acquiring what, or spinning off who, and which names are going where... much less the fluidity of personnel. I have done work for EA... but they get credit for those games where I directly contracted with them. Suppose that I accept a leash and get hired as an employee... let's be really wild and say, by DAZ. Could DAZ then claim to have built those bats and cats? Considering that DAZ didn't even exist at the time? If you are an employee, can your company then claim credit for everything you have ever done? Carolly