Time Extension, The Making Of: Worms (2024)

Cite as: Time Extension, The Making Of: Worms (2024)
Original: https://www.timeextension.com/features/the-making-of-worms-the-bedroom-coded-classic-that-spawned-a-million-selling-series
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Accessed: 2026-10-22
Licence: © the publisher; quoted briefly
Credit: Faith Johnson
Notes: Feature by Faith Johnson, published 23 June 2024, built on an interview with Andy Davidson, Worms' programmer; his words are primary. Locators are sections of the article (no page numbers).

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Andy Davidson, who programmed Worms, told Time Extension it grew from the artillery games he had loved "since the 8-bit days", two tanks trading shots by angle and power, and that what interested him most was generating random landscapes; letting the tanks move was, he says, new for a genre that was "normally very static".	`section opening "He began developing a new game"section opening "He began developing a new game"paragraph opening "The Amiga allowed me"`	Interview