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The impact of Star Wars and his love for telling stories was so big that Ron Gilbert, at the age of fourteen, and his good friend Tom McFarlane made a couple of films on a Super-8 camera. His fascination with programming technology, which allowed gamers to interact with characters and situations, mixed with his love for telling stories, like that of "Star Wars", were his main inspirations to start making games. Another thing that made him approach the gaming world was a film, Star Wars (1977). Gilbert saw the potential to program games as a creative outlet as he continued his studies towards the film industry.
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He found the ability to program games on the calculator interesting, citing an example of a Battleship-like game that was included on the calculator, leading him wanting him to learn how to program other games. He became interested in games when he was thirteen years old thanks to a HP-65 programmable calculator his father used to bring home. Initially, he thought of himself going into a career for film direction. Gilbert, a physics professor and former president of Eastern Oregon University (then Eastern Oregon State College). In 2017, he announced Thimbleweed Park with Terrible Toybox, serving as writer, designer, and programmer since 2014. In 2013, he announced that he would move on from Double Fine Productions, after releasing the game The Cave with them. After working with Beep Games between 20, he was creative director at Vancouver-based Hothead Games development studio between 20, also doing some work for Telltale Games and with Penny Arcade. He cofounded Hulabee Entertainment with Shelley Day, releasing children's games between 20. After leaving LucasArts, Gilbert co-founded the children's gaming company Humongous Entertainment in 1992 and its sister company Cavedog Entertainment in 1995, where he produced games such as Total Annihilation for adults. He invented SCUMM, a technology used in many subsequent games. He afterwards joined Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts), and was given the opportunity to develop his own games. While a student in 1983, he co-wrote Graphics BASIC and he then worked on action games for HESware, which went out of business. His games are generally focused on interactive storytelling, and he is arguably best known for his work on several LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. All you need to enjoy any map from either map collection at File Universe is the TA Unofficial Patch, or the three map feature packs available from the Map Features folder for those who do not wish to use the patch.Ron Gilbert is an American video-game designer, programmer, and producer.
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Every single map in the TA Maps r2010 collection has been fixed of technical bugs, cleared of potentially conflicting files, and given high quality minimap previews. The most notable improvement over the old File Universe is that the entire 8 GB TAMEC DVD map collection, along with several hundred other stray maps from various sources, have been fixed, minimapped, organized, and re-released as the TA Maps r2010 collection and is available from the Maps (r2010) folder (the nearly 12 GB File Universe map collection is available from the Maps folder).
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Combined with the 1 GB library of over 4,000 units at Unit Universe, it is the most up-to-date and complete Total Annihilation file archive ever assembled and contains almost everything ever released for the game. The Total Annihilation file library is larger and more comprehensive than ever, weighing in at 29 GB and containing almost 7,000 files in over 500 folders. The entire network of 50 Total Annihilation websites as well as the domain names and server are now fully under our control so there should be no more problems as far as the site is concerned.
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If you visit the forum you may know that it's a long story as to why the site went offline but the important thing is that the full File Universe file library, bigger and better than ever, is now permanently hosted on our new and improved server along with the rest of the Total Annihilation Universe Network. Welcome back to File Universe, returning in its fifth incarnation after over a year of absence.