Interview: “John Cleese Told Us To F**k Off” – The Inside Story Of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Games

“Terry’s way of looking at the world was ‘Ordinary people in an extraordinary world’”.

In the mid-to-late ’90s, the UK developer Perfect Entertainment partnered with the author Terry Pratchett to produce three games based on the writer’s Discworld series of novels.

The series, which began all the way back in 1983, with the publication of The Colour of Magic, has won countless awards, shifted over a hundred million copies, and gone on to comprise an impressive 41 books in total (not counting its various spin-offs, graphic novels, and companions). Its final novel The Shepherd’s Crown was published in August 2015 — five months after the author’s unfortunate passing at the age of 66 from complications related to Alzheimer’s.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

“Terry’s way of looking at the world was ‘Ordinary people in an extraordinary world’”.

In the mid-to-late ’90s, the UK developer Perfect Entertainment partnered with the author Terry Pratchett to produce three games based on the writer’s Discworld series of novels.

The series, which began all the way back in 1983, with the publication of The Colour of Magic, has won countless awards, shifted over a hundred million copies, and gone on to comprise an impressive 41 books in total (not counting its various spin-offs, graphic novels, and companions). Its final novel The Shepherd’s Crown was published in August 2015 — five months after the author’s unfortunate passing at the age of 66 from complications related to Alzheimer’s.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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