Anyone here in the industry who remembers Vance Cook? From the “good old days” of sports sims, really revolutionized the whole golf sim genre with what was Sierra’s Front Page Sports: Golf with the TruSwing, the first mouse swing (that worked!) and then he was lured over to EA to take his design philosophies to Tiger Woods. A great guy, loved golf, passionate about game design.
Does anyone know what he’s up to these days? Is he still tied to the EA Tiger franchise?
Man … Front Page Sports. Now that brings back some great memories. I loved a lot of their titles. It was like a sublime mix of a great sports game and a great sports management sim. I never played the golf sim from them though.
He actually bought 400 acres in the Peruvian Amazon and built an amazing place called Treehouse Lodge. We were just there a few days ago… They have all kinds of cool excursions and each “hotel room” is an actual Treehouse up about 65 feet off the ground. Nothing but Amazon jungle all around.