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* Design documents for the ''LEGO Rock Raiders'' video | * Design documents and concept art for the ''LEGO Rock Raiders'' video game, its levels, and the LEGO figures and builds featured in it.<ref name="reddit post prototype"/> | ||
* Source codes for the Gods98 engine and the PlayStation | * Source codes for the Gods98 engine and the PlayStation version of ''[[LEGO Rock Raiders (PlayStation video game)|LEGO Rock Raiders]]''.<ref name="Analysis DDI"/> | ||
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* Assets and Photoshop project files for ''[[LEGO Adventures!]]'' magazine | * Assets and Photoshop project files for the comics and art made by [[Artworld UK]] for ''[[LEGO Adventures!]]'' magazine.<ref name="reddit post prototype"/> | ||
=== Games with source code or assets === | === Games with source code or assets === | ||
Latest revision as of 21:51, 17 September 2025
The Data Design Interactive lot is a collection of hard disk drives formerly owned by British video game developer Data Design Interactive. The hard drives were purchased by members of the video game preservation website Obscure Gamers in September 2020. The files recovered from the hard drives have been referred to as the Data Design Interactive dump or DDI Dump. As a number of the hard drives were damaged, recovery efforts are still underway.
History
On 13 September 2020, Obscure Gamers founder Damien announced plans to purchase a lot of hard disk drives that had previously been owned by Data Design Interactive;[1] the company's original British office had shut down by 2012, several years after owner Stewart Green had opened an American office in Florida in 2008.[2][3] The lot was priced as US$1,000 and contained twenty-two hard drives; nine of the drives were damaged or would not power on, however, and required specialist repair work that would cost more than the purchase price. Damien posted a thread on the site's forums with a fundraiser to help purchase and repair the drives. The initial fundraising goal was US$2,500 (plus a buffer of $250 for PayPal's fees); the first thousand dollars would be used for purchasing the lot, and any additional fund would go towards recovery costs.[1]
The following day Damien announced that the fundraiser had reached 37% of its goal, enough to ensure the lot could be purchased.[4] The drives were acquired by Obscure Gamers user March_42.[5] Damien initially planned on releasing recovered files in weekly batches, with most of the time each week to be spent recovering and renaming deleted files; the group would also be removing any personal information, family photos, and pornographic content from the drives before releases.[4]
The hard drives had been used by Data Design during the development of LEGO Rock Raiders and for a number of years after.[6]
Data
List some examples The data found includes (but is not limited to):
- Design documents and concept art for the LEGO Rock Raiders video game, its levels, and the LEGO figures and builds featured in it.[6]
- Source codes for the Gods98 engine and the PlayStation version of LEGO Rock Raiders.[7]
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- Assets and Photoshop project files for the comics and art made by Artworld UK for LEGO Adventures! magazine.[6]
Games with source code or assets
Windows
- Bloctrix (cancelled)
- Discover a World of Wonder
- Gubble Buggy Racer
- LEGOLAND
- LEGO Chess
- LEGO Creator
- LEGO Creator: Harry Potter
- LEGO Creator: Knights' Kingdom
- LEGO Football (cancelled)
- LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge
- LEGO Racers
- LEGO Racers 2
- LEGO Rock Raiders
- Mini in Venice (cancelled)
- Nickelodeon Party Blast
- Tonka Monster Trucks
- Wallace & Gromit: The Grand Tour (cancelled)
PlayStation
Game Boy Color
- Cool Bricks
- Formula 1 (cancelled)
PlayStation 2
- An American Tail
- Casper and the Ghostly Trio
- Casper's Scare School
- Earache: Extreme Metal Racing
- Kidz Sports Basketball
- Myth Makers: Orbs of Doom
- Myth Makers: Super Kart GP
GameCube, Xbox
Nintendo DS
- Toy Golf Extreme (cancelled)
Wii
- Athletic Piggy Party
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Damien (13 September 2020). "Data Design Interactive HDD Group Buy & Repair costs". Obscure Gamers (Forum thread). Archived from the original on 21 September 2020.
- ↑ "Data Design Interactive Limited - Insolvency". Companies House. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018.
- ↑ Lee, James (27 May 2008). "Data Design Interactive opens new US office". GamesIndustry.biz. Archived from the original on 17 July 2009. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Damien (14 September 2020). "Just a minor update, we've hit 37% of the goal meaning the HDD's are now secured (minus repair/recovery costs)". Obscure Gamers (Reply to forum thread "Data Design Interactive HDD Group Buy & Repair costs"). Archived from the original on 17 November 2020.
- ↑ "Data Design Interractive". march.geek.gp. Archived from the original on 17 February 2021 – via Gitlab.
Source code for multiples games, recovered from multiples old HDD that was legally acquired by March_42 from ObscureGamers.com on September 2020.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Baraklava (13 February 2024) [15 September 2020]. "Let's save the largest Rock Raiders prototype content dump ever". Reddit (r/RockRaiders post). Archived from the original on 19 March 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
- ↑ Jordan, Robert (10 June 2023) [26 August 2021]. "Data/DDI". LEGO Rock Raiders Assembly Analysis wiki. Archived from the original on 17 September 2025. Retrieved 17 September 2025 – via GitHub.
- ↑ Forest of Illusion [@forestillusion] (3 January 2021). "Today we have released source code for "Outlaw Golf" (a PC, PS2, Xbox & GCN game) thanks to March_42! Unfortunately it was found without assets and only containing raw code, but hopefully someone can fix it up" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 2025-09-17 – via Twitter.
