LEGO Media International was very involved in the development of the game, with LEGO Media producer David Upchurch often visiting the development studio for a week at a time to play through LEGO Rock Raiders and give detailed feedback. Karl White, who was a programmer on the game, said the developer decided to make it a strategy title both because of the theme set’s storyline and also because the studio had recently wrapped up development on another strategy game. The real-time strategy game hit Windows PC in 1999 and an action strategy version of the game hit the PlayStation a year later. Rock Raiders is a huge love letter to LEGO fans.”Ī video game developed by Data Design Interactive also empowered the love of the theme set. It had so much beyond just being a game and asset. They were trying to create an entire world.
“That is one of the reasons I really love Rock Raiders. “I think it’s because it affected us so much as children and because we collectively saw so much more potential,” said Simon Eriksson, a super fan of the theme set who is also working on a remake of the computer game. It’s an unusually dark back story for the often brightly colored, everything-is-awesome LEGO brick sets – and perhaps that’s why LEGO Rock Raiders so efficiently sunk its hooks into its fans. Fortunately, though, the minifig crew discovers a planet replete with energy crystals and sets about mining them for their ship. Damaged and without power, the LMS Explorer is thrown through a wormhole and lost in space.
The LEGO Rock Raiders video game is as odd and fun to play with as the theme set upon which it is based.īoth present players with an exploratory spaceship adrift among the stars.
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