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Giant Bomb Presents

Giant Bomb Presents: The BioForge Interview

We tracked down BioForge director, programmer, and producer Ken Demarest to discuss the origins, development, and legacy of his 1995 game.

Giant Bomb Presents is giantbomb.com's home for interviews, previews, and more.

Aug. 26 2013

Posted by: Patrick

In This Episode:

BioForge

Origin Systems

PC

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This is the interview I've been waiting for all my life.

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I'm really pumped to listen to this, I never thought they would actually track him down

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A full transcript will be up today, too. Though I'd make the podcast live ASAP.

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I bet non premium members will find this real weird

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YES! I can't wait to listen to this.

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I am so excited.

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yes

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This is pretty cool, Patrick.

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I am on board with more interviews like this; well played, sir.

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This is going to be epic

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Damn it @patrickklepek, Bombin' starts in 30 minutes and this is 50 minutes long!

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I bet non premium members will find this real weird

For all non-premium members, its worth the price just to watch the BioForge "endurance run". My lady and I have never laughed so hard.

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Thank you, based Scoops.

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A podcast.

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@hassun said:

Damn it

@patrickklepek

, Bombin' starts in 30 minutes and this is 50 minutes long!

If you listen to them at the same time they sync up and you will get such a crazy trip.

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can not wait to hear this at work good job tracking this dude down @patrickklepek. Was actually waiting all weekend to hear what the hell the flute is/was for.

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Haven't pressed play yet and I'm already laughing my ass off!

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Random! This guy has done some amazing stuff, check his wiki.

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Good job Patrick, this is awesome!

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A FLUTE!

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Vincent

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A BIG GUN!

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An interview!

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@vinchenzo said:

5 mins in and Patrick already breaks the guy off then goes on some dumb spiel. Unfortunate. :\

That's Patrick for you, talks a lot without saying much.

You're both right, you should start your own gaming website, and Patrick should take your job of being whiny little nobodies who will never accomplish anything.

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A scoop!

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@thelegendofmart said:

@vinchenzo said:

5 mins in and Patrick already breaks the guy off then goes on some dumb spiel. Unfortunate. :\

That's Patrick for you, talks a lot without saying much.

You're both right, you should start your own gaming website, and Patrick should take your job of being whiny little nobodies who will never accomplish anything.

Yes because that isn't his job already.

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Vincent.

Vincent!

Vincent.

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@depecheload said:

@thelegendofmart said:

@vinchenzo said:

5 mins in and Patrick already breaks the guy off then goes on some dumb spiel. Unfortunate. :\

That's Patrick for you, talks a lot without saying much.

You're both right, you should start your own gaming website, and Patrick should take your job of being whiny little nobodies who will never accomplish anything.

Patrick didn't create Giantbomb, he came after the fact and what exactly has he accomplished apart from posting some news and appearing in some videos?

He can defend himself, he doesn't need some keyboard warrior sticking up for him. I have nothing against him I just get irritated at his style of speaking.

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@thelegendofmart said:

@vinchenzo said:

5 mins in and Patrick already breaks the guy off then goes on some dumb spiel. Unfortunate. :\

That's Patrick for you, talks a lot without saying much.

You're both right, you should start your own gaming website, and Patrick should take your job of being whiny little nobodies who will never accomplish anything.

Hi patrick.

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Discussing the nuances of Patrick is the only way i can talk to people.

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This is unreal. How in the hell did you track this guy down? Better give it a listen!

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A FORK!

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This was great, thanks Patrick.

Also who is Vincent?

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@depecheload said:

@thelegendofmart said:

@vinchenzo said:

5 mins in and Patrick already breaks the guy off then goes on some dumb spiel. Unfortunate. :\

That's Patrick for you, talks a lot without saying much.

You're both right, you should start your own gaming website, and Patrick should take your job of being whiny little nobodies who will never accomplish anything.

Patrick didn't create Giantbomb, he came after the fact and what exactly has he accomplished apart from posting some news and appearing in some videos?

He can defend himself, he doesn't need some keyboard warrior sticking up for him. I have nothing against him I just get irritated at his style of speaking.

He has actually done plenty honestly, with contributions to the podcast, the interview dumptruck, the new worth playing series, etc. etc.

But fair enough if you don't like his style of speaking, as it is a personal opinion. I do think that he has proved himself plenty already though.

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just finished it, great stuff.

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This guy says "epic" so much, it's really obnoxious.

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@thelegendofmart said:

@depecheload said:

@thelegendofmart said:

@vinchenzo said:

5 mins in and Patrick already breaks the guy off then goes on some dumb spiel. Unfortunate. :\

That's Patrick for you, talks a lot without saying much.

You're both right, you should start your own gaming website, and Patrick should take your job of being whiny little nobodies who will never accomplish anything.

Patrick didn't create Giantbomb, he came after the fact and what exactly has he accomplished apart from posting some news and appearing in some videos?

He can defend himself, he doesn't need some keyboard warrior sticking up for him. I have nothing against him I just get irritated at his style of speaking.

He has actually done plenty honestly, with contributions to the podcast, the interview dumptruck, the new worth playing series, etc. etc.

But fair enough if you don't like his style of speaking, as it is a personal opinion. I do think that he has proved himself plenty already though.

Yeah I know I was just retaliating to the guy that attacked me for my personal opinion. He is a nice guy and I enjoyed him as part of a group on things like Pro Weds, TNT and Unpro Fridays as well as Bioforge videos but when he is on his own he is quite overbearing and constantly cuts people off so he can go on this long meandering stream of conciousness. I didn't tune in to this podcast to listen to Patrick waffle on, I wanted to hear from the Bioforge guy.

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My god...

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The interview to end all interviews.

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Thank you so much for this Patrick!

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Fantastic interview!

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That was a pretty great interview actually. It really worked because it sounded like he was really game to just talk as frankly as possible about the development of that game. Couldn't ask for anything better!

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FLUTE ORIGIN EXPLAINED!!

FIRST 30 SECONDS

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Patrick, you are the best for making this happen. Thank you very, very much.

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Patrick, you are the best for making this happen. Thank you very, very much.

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We finally get the BioForge interview that everyone has been waiting for and the comments are still filled with bickering idiots arguing about nothing.

The internet is the worst.