Title: Rules of Engagement
Credits: Designer (Co-), Art-Director
Developer: Omnitrend
Published: 1991 by Mindcraft
Platforms: PC & Amiga
My work on Rules of Engagement was primarily concerned with the
following: participation in the overall game design (the final game synthesizes elements of
Thomas R. Carbone's concept with ideas I had developed for an unproduced space-combat game);
creation of an interface system which would mimick multi-mode touchscreens (simulating the
controls of starships rather than displaying pretty but pointless pictures of control rooms
and viewscreens).
I created and edited game missions and mission elements, and wrote the bulk of the game's
documentation. After a mixup at the publisher which resulted in no one having produced a cover
design for the product manual, I actually created a design from scratch in 30 minutes flat.
