Template:Did you know nominations/Serious Sam: The Random Encounter

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:31, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Serious Sam: The Random Encounter

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• ... that Vlambeer pitched Serious Sam: The Random Encounter with a crude sketch, expecting it to be turned down? Source: " "We actually wanted them [Devolver Digital] to say no [to the pitch]," Rami [Ismail] states, as if that would have proved everything they [Vlambeer] ever thought about game publishers." Two years with Vlambeer: the inside story on gaming's greatest new studio (corresponds to #11 in the article)
  • ALT1:... that Serious Sam: The Random Encounter was Vlambeer's first commercial game release? Source: Serious Sam: The Random Encounter Is Vlambeer's First Game You Can Buy (the title says it all; corresponds to #30 in the article)
  • ALT2:... that the cover artwork for Serious Sam: The Random Encounter was lost in a crash shortly before its deadline and had to be quickly recreated from a lesser version? Source: "A few days before the deadline we [Roy Nathan de Groot, et al.] lost the workfiles due to a chrash [sic] and I [de Groot] only had a low resolution version left. It had to be scaled up and repainted within a day or so." Serious Sam: the Random Encounter (corresponds to #16 in the article)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Development of The Last of Us Part II
• Comment: File:Vlambeer at GDC (cropped).png is a possible picture for representing Vlambeer.

Improved to Good Article status by IceWelder (talk). Self-nominated at 15:13, 12 July 2020 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I prefer ALT0 epicgenius (talk) 14:47, 15 July 2020 (UTC)