Paul Gardner

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YouTube video by JMac & Webbsta Twinsanity Devs - Mysteries of the Mecha-Bandicoot!!

Mecha Madness! JMac and Webbsta are back with another Twinsanity dev video: youtu.be/GAHRhAlwlqA?...

YouTube video by JMac & Webbsta We found more details about Crash Twinsanity's famous Lost Level!

JMac and Webbsta have... Gone a Bit Coco!?!
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YouTube video by JMac & Webb Crash Twinsanity - FISH!!? Cutscene - Developer's memories

More secrets of Crash Twinsanity revealed by JMac and Webbsta!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_li...

YouTube video by J Mac The cut content of Crash Twinsanity - Ranked by the developers!

Traveller's Tale Oxford devs JMac and Webbsta rank the deleted content of Crash Twinsanity!! youtu.be/sHHCi1a2N-E?...

There were lots of ideas during production, but they didn't have any specific roles. Dan, our lead artist, built them because he thought they were cool and that we should feature the established bosses in the game. I ended up using them for the 'birthday party' scene because they were available.

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A street corner in a medieval city at night. Lanterns glow in the fog and before us a set of steps lead up to the closed wooden door of a sturdy stone building, covered in ivy. Carved sea monsters adorn the balustrade of the steps. Beside the door hangs a bell. Thick ropes crisscross the street high above us. From them hang pendants made of heavy rocks. In the gloom to the right a 'WANTED' poster features the fearsome image of a certain Minstrel Mouse.

Could this be a fortified city at night under curfew because the Baron's ship is in harbour...?! Why, that's an oddly specific question. Who knows?! #GhostOfATale2 #UnrealEngine5

Getting closer...
#GhostOfATale2 #GoaT2 #HappyHolidays

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The publisher's response was something like "Are you kidding? No!" But they offered us Spyro instead! Amazing! Eurocom kindly gave us their model from "A Hero's Tail", which fit our style perfectly. So in the end, Spyro's cameo came about all thanks to one Moronic idea... 5/5

...I proposed the completely original, classic character 'Moronic the Plumber', famous for his catchphrase "It's-a not me!" 4/5
#CrashBandicoot #Twinsanity #Spyro #ItsaNotMe #CharacterDesign

To reinforce that idea, we wanted a character from another dimension who'd arrive to reclaim the treasure from their world, and punish those responsible for taking it. So... 3/5

When Crash and Cortex find the Evil Twins' treasure room, we thought it would be fun to show that the twins had been using their technology to plunder other dimensions, and even other games. The treasure might include things that looked like Sonic's rings, Mario's coins etc. 2/5

Art and design by @PavelSadovnik
(c. 2002) #CrashBandicoot #Twinsanity #GameDesign 2/2

It's worth saying this isn't cut content from Twinsanity or a cancelled game, it's just a pitch we made that wasn't picked up. I really love the ideas, though. It would have been a lot of fun. The last line of the pitch: "Ditch the bandicoot and get with the winning team".

Dr. Cortex would spawn exploding 'duplet' clones, then bully them into doing his bidding, sacrificing them to get what he wanted. As long as at least one reached the goal (a lever or switch or whatever), then the mission was considered a success.

Wow! This is so unexpected ❤️🙏

Following on from @WebbstaWebb's tweet, here are some gameplay sketches from our standalone Dr. Cortex game pitch "The All-New Neo Cortex Show", made back in 2004.

Doodling Nina Cortex on #Twinsanity's 17th anniversary! I'd love to see more fan art of her, feel free to post your favourites below vvvvvv

Game mechanic storyboard from Traveller's Tales Oxford's pitch for Crash Rally Racers/Crash Clash Racing! (c. 2002) #CrashBandicoot #Twinsanity 1/2

"I'm only evil because you need me to be."😭 Dedicated to Mel Winkler. #Twinsanity #CrashBandicoot #DeletedScenes
Credits:
Dr. Neo Cortex: @LexLang
Aku Aku: Mel Winkler
Storyboard artist: Keith Webb
Script: Paul Gardner

I know it's been seventeen years, but is the free steak offer still valid? @LexLang #Twinsanity #CrashBandicoot

It's cool that Michael Fagan made it to the final boss tho. #TheCrownSeason4 #TheCrown

Alternative costume for Coco. Again, this is by Duke Mighten, pre-Twinsanity, around 2002. This one is a little blurry, but it's the only concept art I have for Coco.
#Twinsanity #CrashBandicoot #characterDesign

Traveller's Tales Dr. Cortex redesign by Duke Mighten (designer of Nina Cortex), from around 2002. This is the Cortex design I used for my early facial animation tests and introduced the costume and color palette for Twinsanity's Cortex design. #Twinsanity #CrashBandicoot

Early pre-Twinsanity sketch design (2002) of the Evil Twins by me. A few details made it through into the fantastic final design by Richard Albon. I just noticed they have a game of Pong on their foreheads for some reason.
#Twinsanity #CrashBandicoot

Loving the new Tawna in Crash 4!
#CrashBandicoot #Crash4 #Twinsanity

Redesigning Crash is HARD. Everybody has a different idea of what he looks like (PS1 Crash had 512 polygons, which leaves a lot open to interpretation). One of the tests I did during dev of the #Twinsanity Crash was getting our model to hit the same poses as Naughty Dog's Crash.

Unused prop from Cavern Catastrophe. RollerBrawl would smash through wooden boards, leaving a Crash and Cortex-shaped hole. But the level moves so quickly that the joke flew by too fast to see, so I didn't take it any further than this. #CrashBandicoot #Twinsanity #LevelDesign