Pickles

This game was never completed and/or given a public release. As a result of this, keep in mind that the developers might have used or deleted some of the content featured here, had the game actually been released.

This prototype is documented on Hidden Palace.

This prototype is documented on Hidden Palace.

Pickles is a tech demo created to showcase Santa Cruz Games' in-house cross-platform engine for game development. It made a showing at Game Connection 2006, and in 2023 an NR disc containing an early GameCube prototype was sold to Cake and released by Hard4Games on September 18 of that year.

Alex Neuse, project manager at Santa Cruz Games, claimed they were "not specifically pitching it to publishers", but the fact the disc has a video file namedropping Sammy Studios suggests otherwise.

Unused Videos#

Unused Music#

Unused Sounds#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: /files/audio/demo.spd probably contains some sound effects not used by any actors in-game. Even though they are accessible from the sound test, it might still be worth documenting.

Multiple backup Sound Pipeline Demo (*.spd) files were left on the disc, charting the development of the sound effects. Only tracks that are not found in the final /files/audio/demo.spd (which has 87 tracks) are listed.

/files/audio/olddemo.spd (and its identical copy /files/audio/old/olddemo.spd) has three tracks:

/files/audio/preeggbackup/demo.spd (and its identical copy /files/audio/new/demo.spd) has 42 tracks.

/files/audio/old/demo.spd has 71 tracks. It is close to the final demo.spd, with a few differences and missing tracks.

Unused Text#

/files/graphics/WS_FTP.LOG:

2002.03.01 17:42 B E:\scg\etPC\files\graphics\black.tex --> digitaleclipse.com /ET black.tex

/files/models/TEX2TXG_log.txt:

LoadFile E:\pickles\game\gamecubedata\files\Fnts\font2.tex at 002f2910
init_PSXtexfile 33288 bytes
texture 0 offs 00000000 w 256 h 256 PAD 0 BLEND 0 xfad 0 mode 0

/files/worlds/World1/old/stats.txt:

Tool Geometry 8495396
PC Geometry 1794888
GC Geometry 1794888
PC Textures 17472360
PC Textures 432000

/AudioTracks/makeaudio.bat:

call dtkmake 0.wav 0.adp

call dtkmake 1.wav 1.adp

call dtkmake 2.wav 2.adp

call dtkmake 3.wav 3.adp

call dtkmake 4.wav 4.adp

call dtkmake 5.wav 5.adp

call dtkmake 6.wav 6.adp



pause

Unused Textures#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.

Many of these are leftovers from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Interplanetary Mission, another title developed by Santa Cruz Games. Almost all of them come in two formats: PSXteximage (*.tex), and GCMaterials (*.txg). Both formats support multiple images in one file, indicated by "(image #)" after the name. The GCMaterials image is usually flipped horizontally and may have transparency where the PSXteximage image has solid blue or black.

The TEX2TXG_log.txt document suggests images would first be converted to the PSXteximage format before being converted to the GCMaterials format, yet the PSXteximage format does not (appear to) support transparency, so solid blue or black could have been a primitive way of baking transparency information into a format that did not support it.

/files/Fnts/#

/files/graphics/#

/files/graphics/PAL/#

Hidden Text#

The credits for E.T.: Interplanetary Mission can be found at address 0x800b34f0.

ET INTERPLANETARY MISSION
PUBLISHED BY UBI SOFT
3RD PARTY PROJECT MANAGEMENT
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT:
ANNE BLONDEL
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:
VALÉRIE BEAUFILS
TESTS:
WORLDWIDE TESTS MANAGER:
ERIC TREMBLAY
LEAD TESTER:
ALEXANDRE MARTEL
TESTERS:
BENOIT ST-ARNEAULT
LUKAS SODERSTROM
PHILIPPE GUAY
JEAN-YVES THIBOUTOT
ÉRIC LAPERRIÉRE
SABRINA TREMBLAY
LEAD TESTER COMPATIBILITY:
DAVID LEVESQUE
LOCALIZATION :
DIRECTOR:
CORALIE MARTIN
PROJECT MANAGER:
VANESSA HAUTEFEUILLE
LOCALIZATION COORDINATOR:
STEFAN DINGER
TRANSLATION/ADAPTATION:
XAVIER VIBERT
DL MULTIMEDIA
PROJECT SYNTHESIS
U-TRAX MULTI MEDIA
LOCALISATIONS B.V.
LOCALIZATION TESTERS:
FRANK HAUT
FLORIAN KÖHLER
PUBLISHER: UBI SOFT ENTERTAINMENT

CEO:
YVES GUILLEMOT
INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION DIRECTOR:
CHRISTINE BURGESS-QUEMARD
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR
OF DEVELOPMENT:
ALEXIS GODARD
INTERNATIONAL CONTENT DIRECTOR:
SERGE HASCOET
INTERNATIONAL CONTENT MANAGER:
FABRICE PIERRE-ELIEN
MARKETING
EUROPEAN MARKETING DIRECTOR:
LAURENCE BUISSON
BRAND GROUP MANAGER:
LIDWINE VERNET
BRAND MANAGER EMEA:
CHLOÉ PHÉLIZON
ASSISTANT BRAND MANAGER EMEA:
ERIC DAMIAN-VERNET
AMERICAN MARKETING MANAGER:
DAVID BAMBERGER 
BRAND MANAGER AMERICA:
SARAH OHRING
MARKETING TEAM AROUND THE WORLD:
AMANDA BUTT
EMMA FIFIELD
MARCEL KEIJ
SVEN VAN DER BENT
EVELYNE DE VOOGHT
VERA SHAH
MARIANA RADICEVSKI
EMILIE AMCHIN
AURÉLIE GOUALLO
EVA DURAN
GIULIA PASQUARIELLO
KRISTINA MORTENSEN
DIGITAL ECLIPSE
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
ANDREW AYRE
JEFF VAVASOUR
SENIOR PRODUCER:
RENÉE JOHNSON
PRODUCER:
WILLIAM BAFFY
ART DIRECTOR:
BOYD BURGGRABE
ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR:
GRANTED Q. SAVAGE
AUDIO DIRECTOR:
ROBERT BAFFY
CREATIVE DIRECTOR:
MIKE MIKA
PRODUCTION MANAGER:
CHRIS CHARLA
SANTA CRUZ GAMES
DEVELOPMENT TEAM:
LEAD PROGRAMMER:
MARK 'BENO' BELL
SENIOR PROGRAMMER:
AND PC PORT
DIEGO 'EGG' LINK
ART DIRECTOR
ANDREW WEBSTER
LEADTOOLS/ AUDIO
MICHAEL T. MAYERS
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
DAMON REDMOND
SENIOR ANIMATOR
ED GREGOR
SENIOR MODELER
JASON MAYNARD
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/ DESIGNER
RICHARD GOMER
SOUND DESIGNER
SYNTHIA PAYNE
PC GURU
JOHN B HARE
NEWKIDCO
DIRECTOR, WORLD WIDE PRODUCT
LICENSING AND DEVELOPMENT
NINA SKALKA
MARKETING BRAND MANAGER
ROBERT ROTONDI
SPECIAL THANKS:
MARC NESBIT
ERIC SAMULSKI
BRADLEY SKALKA
BIG SAM AND LITTLE LILY
BECCHAH GOLTZ
UNIVERSAL/AMBLIN
BILL KISPERT
SUSAN MCINTYRE-YOUNG
SHANNON DIFFNER
RANDY NELLIS
BARBARA RITCHIE