Hal Barwood
Hal Barwood | |
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Born | Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S. | 16 April 1940
Occupation(s) | Novelist, video game developer, and screenwriter |
Hal Barwood (born April 16, 1940) is an American
Early life
Barwood was born in
Career
Film work
1970s
In 1965, as a student, Barwood wrote, directed, and produced the short animated film, A Child's Introduction to the Cosmos, and in 1970, The Great Walled City of Xan. His first theatrical film work was briefly as an effects animator on
Barwood's career path opened up when he and
After Express, Robbins and Barwood wrote
1980s
After Close Encounters, Barwood and Robbins collaborated again for the
Later, in 1984, Barwood made his theatrical feature film directorial debut with the science fiction-horror film Warning Sign, starring Sam Waterston. The film was released in 1985 and received negative reviews although its box office performance was not so bad.[14][15]
Video game work
While working on Dragonslayer, Barwood realized that he wanted to make video games in order to pursue his second childhood passion. Prior to becoming a professional video game designer, Barwood had previously created two video games for the Apple II (which he wrote and designed), entitled Binary Gauge and Space Snatchers. The first was self-published while the other was never published.[16][17] Both of these titles are still available for PC play from his website, finitearts.com.[18]
Work at LucasArts (1990–2003)
He was hired as a script writer, producer and director for
Due to the successful reception of Fate of Atlantis, Barwood helped Joe Pinney, Bill Stoneham, and Aric Wilmunder conceive a sequel to Fate entitled Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix, in which after
In 1995, Barwood worked on
Following the release of Infernal Machine, Barwood designed and presided over the development of RTX Red Rock and helped revise the story of Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, another Indiana Jones video game; it involves Indiana Jones searching the tomb of the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang before the Nazis and a Chinese Triad can find it. Both Red Rock and Emperor's Tomb were released in 2003, the former with negative reviews and the latter to critical acclaim.[20][26] After the release of Emperor's Tomb, Barwood retired from making video games for LucasArts, although eight years later, he briefly returned in 2011 to work in cooperation with Zynga in the Facebook online video game Indiana Jones Adventure World,[27] which was discontinued in 2012.
Finite Arts, Freelancing, and later games (2003–2011)
Following his departure from LucasArts in 2003, Barwood repurposed his former movie company, Finite Arts, to service his freelance projects. Among these were the PC games Phlinx to go and Zengems, released in 2005 and 2007. Both were well received.
In 2008–2009, Barwood served as the lead designer and writer on
Future projects
On April 3, 2017, during an interview with Arcade Attack, Barwood stated that although he liked very much working on Indiana Jones video games, he had no desire to make any new titles. However, he stated that he had finished his fourth novel and is currently writing his fifth novel, entitled Happenstance.[30]
Personal life
Barwood lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He was married to his childhood sweetheart, Barbara Ward, a teacher and literacy program director, until she passed away in 2023.
Works
Filmography
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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1965 | A Child's Introduction to the Cosmos | Yes | Yes | Yes | Short student film |
1970 | The Great Walled City of Xan | Yes | Yes | Yes | Short student film |
1974 | The Sugarland Express | Yes | |||
1976 | The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | Yes | |||
1977 | MacArthur | Yes | |||
1978 | Corvette Summer | Yes | Yes | ||
1981 | Dragonslayer | Yes | Yes | ||
1985 | Warning Sign | Yes | Yes | Directorial debut |
Year | Title | Role |
---|---|---|
1971 | THX 1138 | Titles / animator |
1975 | Jaws | Uncredited writer |
1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Uncredited writer / Cameo as "Returnee #2 Flt. 19" |
Video games
Year | Title | Director / Project leader |
Writer | Game designer |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1985 | Binary Gauge | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apple 2 model railroading |
1986 | Space Snatchers of Aratoon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Apple 2 RPG |
1992 | Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis | Yes | yes | yes | PC |
Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis: The Action Game | platform ? | ||||
1995 | Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire | directed video | |||
Big Sky Trooper | Yes | Yes | Yes | Nintendo SNES | |
1996 | Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures | Yes | Yes | Yes | PC |
1997 | Star Wars: Yoda Stories | Yes | Yes | Yes | PC |
1999 | Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine | Yes | Yes | Yes | PC |
2003 | RTX Red Rock | Yes | Yes | Yes | Playstation 2 |
2007 | ZenGems
|
yes | freelance; PC | ||
2008 | Mata Hari | yes | yes | freelance; PC |
Books
Year | Title | Writer | Publisher | Notes |
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2013 | Shadowcop | Yes | Finite Arts | Golden Hills Crime #1 |
2014 | Broomhandle | Yes | Finite Arts | Golden Hills Crime #2 |
2015 | Whiskeyjack | Yes | Finite Arts | Golden Hills Crime #3 |
2016 | Glitterbush | Yes | Finite Arts | The Starbots #1 |
2017 | Happenstance | Yes | Finite Arts | standalone; crime |
2018 | Fulfillment | Yes | Finite Arts | standalone; life at a game studio |
2020 | Sandpeople | Yes | Finite Arts | The Starbots #2 |
Answering The Emperor's Prayer | Yes | Finite Arts | standalone; for children | |
2021 | Tinwoman | Yes | Finite Arts | The Starbots #3 |
2022 | Cratertown | Yes | Finite Arts | standalone; science fiction |
2023 | Why The Moon Makes Men Mad | Yes | Finite Arts | standalone; for children |
Bibliography
- Dragonslayer: The Screenplay (2002) co-author (with Matthew Robbins)
- Shadowcop: a paranormal adventure (2013)
- Broomhandle: a paranormal adventure (2014)
- Whiskeyjack: a paranormal adventure (2015)
- Glitterbush: an astrobotanical adventure (2016)
- Happenstance: gambling on democracy (2017)
- Fulfillment: an aspirational adventure (2018)
- Sandpeople: an astromechanical adventure (2020)
- Answering The Emperor's Prayer (2020)
- Tinwoman: a biomechanical adventure (2021)
- Cratertown: a criminological adventure (2022)
- Why The Moon Makes Men Mad (2023)
References
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- ^ The Sugarland Express (1974) - IMDb, archived from the original on July 29, 2018, retrieved May 31, 2020
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Sugarland Express". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2009.
- ^ "The Sugarland Express". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on January 30, 2018. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
- ^ "AFI's 10 Top 10 Nominees" (PDF). Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
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- ^ The Art of Ralph McQuarrie, page 106.
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- ^ "Dragonslayer". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on July 19, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
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- ^ "RTX Red Rock Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
- ^ "Indy no longer anti-social thanks in part to Hal Barwood". The International House of Mojo. Archived from the original on June 9, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
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