

Interestingly, the fidelity of the game was greatly reduced when it became clear that we couldn’t render the mini-figures on the PC with anything like the quality that they were pre-rendered in 3D Studio Max.
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Generally a PSX 1 could only render around 300 rectangles per frame, and Lego Mini figures are notoriously curvy – even more-so than the Lara Croft mesh at the time! On canning PSX, the team was reduced to 4 plus a manager. The Playstation version of the game was canned due to the lack of any kind of power in the Playstation hardware. The games were derivative of then already retro arcade games like Frogger and Zaxxon. Concept art was produced for western and jungle mini-games in addition to the general flow of the games. The game covered the 5 (I think) main Lego worlds of the time, and each world was to have appropriate fun mini-games. In many respects this didn’t have any bearing upon Legoland the game per se, but it was a nice day out. The entire development team were invited to Legoland park design in Windsor to understand how real theme parks are developed. Originally, there was to be a PC version and a Playstation version – the PC version using the most powerful graphics adapters at the time in addition to the new Pentium MMX and Katmai instruction set. We had a team of 6, 3 artists and 3 developers – there was also a Line Manager (who ultimately dropped to Lead Programmer after I left the project). This is a description taken from Mark Rabjohn. Much of what's known of the game's development comes from one of its programmers, an abbreviated version of some of his comments can be found below:

LEGO Chess - The western cutscene takes place at the same time of the first cutscene from the western story in this game.LEGO Rock Raiders - A small cutscene is edited from the PC version (despite being developed by a different company) to involve Professor Voltage saving them and recovering energy crystals.LEGO Island - Rosie is Mama Brickolini's cousin.LEGO Racers - Professor Voltage is Veronica Voltage's grandfather.

