The “Secrets” of Evermore
‘The Secret of Evermore’ was my first title as a full fledged dev. Surprisingly I hadn’t heard of Squaresoft when I took the job. Mostly because I was a PC guy and the console market was alien to me. I learned a lot from that experience. Even with the death-march crunch we endured on SoE I will always remember fondly that team and that time in my career.
The game was originally called ‘Evermore’ — We found the name anonymously written on a white board in the lunch room and everyone immediately knew that this was what we should call our game. I learned years later that it was Jeremy Soule , our 19 year old Audio Designer that wrote ‘Evermore’ on that board. He’s now a world class composer and a legend in the game industry. He’s just one of the many legends that came from that team.
Squaresoft Japan had given us the challenge of building a ‘Secret of Mana’ styled game that had an “American flavor” — We built the game from the ground up (engine and all). Most people thought we used the ‘Secret of Mana’ engine, but if you play the games back to back you will see the differences.
