Hello everybody and welcome to this episode of Interview Extra where I talk to people

doing interesting things in the world of gaming.

Today I'm going to be talking to Ben Powell who, among various other different projects,

is currently working on a Resident Evil to remake randomizer and has worked on a Resident Evil

Remake remastered randomizer.

He's done many other things on various indie games such as Worms Revolution, but at the moment

he's focusing on sort of mixing up items, enemy placements and rooms in

Resident Evil remake remastered and at the moment I think focusing mainly on item randomising in

Resident Evil 2 remake how are you doing today Ben I'm good um I've done your research on me I didn't

think you'd know about worms and things like that.

Just had a little look on your website. Very, very nicely laid out website. Yeah, it's right. Well, it's like the 10th iteration of the website, so by now it should be okay.

Yeah, so actually, maybe you could just talk us through a little bit of your history and how you came to programming these randomizers, because like I say, you've done plenty of other projects that have nothing to do with working on pre-existing games and modifying them.

Yeah, so randomizing is fairly new to me. I've been working in games for 10 years, 11 years now. So I, first of all I did indie games and jams and small things like that.

I got very involved in the indie game scene, the UK indie game scene.

After that I then got a job at Team 17 working on Worms Revolution.

And after that I then went back to my indie project.

I released a game on Steam called Operator Overload.

It didn't do very well.

You know, you have to, you have to, people need to hear the stories of the ones that don't do well as well as the survivor bias.

And at the beginning of 2019, last year, at the beginning of 2018, I was playing Resident Evil, and I was watching a streamer playing the link to the past randomizer.

And it just clicked in my head, oh, that should be for this. This should, you know, this would be in Reson Evil, it would be great.

The doors are locked, you know, there's different paths, you know, the options available for anonymisation would be great.

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