Creating Chaos & Lords of Chaos for the ZX Spectrum | Julian Gollop | The Rubber-Keyed Wonder Movie

Before he created the legendary game X-Com, Julian Gollop created several ZX Spectrum classic games, which includes Chaos: The Battle of Wizards in 1985 and then its follow up Lords of Chaos in 1990. In this clip Julian talks about how he developed the first game while still at university and how it ended up being one of the very first published computer games by Games Workshop. Julian then goes on to explain his work on the follow up Lords of Chaos released 5 years later in 1990.

This clip is from our new documentary film celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum called 'The Rubber-Keyed Wonder: 40 Years of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum'.

2022 will mark 40 years since the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was released in April 1982! The ZX Spectrum computer went onto sell over 5 million units and was one of the most important contributions in 50 years of video game history, and for many was the most important and perhaps most loved! It wasn't just the wonderful library of computer games that sprung up because of the ZX Spectrum, but it was the chief component that kick-started the British Video Games Industry in the 1980s!

With this project, we are making a standalone 80min feature film documentary plus loads of additional featurettes and game design stories that cover a huge array of subjects all to do with our mutual love for the ZX Spectrum and put it all into one celebratory, 40th anniversary package!

Anyone who PRE-ORDERS our new film gets to join the production gaining IMMEDIATE ACCESS to a '1 HOUR BACKER PACK' full of clips from the upcoming film and game makings of such as Jon Ritman on Match Day 1 & 2, Steve Turner on Avalon & Astro Clone, Equinox with Raff Cecco and a lot more!

Pre-orders are available here: https://the-rubber-keyed-wonder-40-years-of-the-zx-spectrum.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

00:00 Intro
00:29 Starting work on Chaos
01:17 Chaos origins
02:30 Using assembly language
03:32 Working for Games Workshop
04:33 Chaos reception
04:53 Lords Of Chaos origins
05:54 Playing Lords Of Chaos
06:53 Outro