> But, rather amazingly, Cryo’s Dune defies any knee-jerk prejudices that might be engendered by knowledge of Philippe Ulrich’s earlier or later output. While it’s every bit as unique a design concept as you might expect given its place of origin, in this case the concept works. For all that they spent the better part of three years at one another’s throats more often than not, Dune nevertheless wound up being a true meeting in the middle between the passionate digital artistes of Cryo and the more practical craftsmen in Virgin’s Anglosphere offices. For once, an exemplar of the French Touch has a depth worthy of its striking surface. Dune plays like a dispatch from an alternate reality in which Cryo cared as much about making good games in a design sense as they did about making beautiful and meaningful ones in an aesthetic and thematic sense — thus proving, should anyone have doubted it, that these things need not be mutually exclusive.
https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-2-...
Did you ever notice that there's an eye on the bottom of Cryo's Arrakis? https://thomas.fach-pedersen.net/dune/arrakis-eye.png :)
Here is a recent interview of him (in French): https://www.cnc.fr/jeu-video/actualites/philippe-ulrich---av...
Remi Herbulot invented the HERAD music system, which used features of the sound chip that no other sound system did. Remi operated on a godlike level of FM sound production, the only other person who even approached him was Robert Prince (Doom musician).
Stephane Picq wrote most of the Dune soundtrack as real electronic music then "backported" it to Remi's music system. Ulrich contributed one or two tracks.
http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Dune_(DOS)
You can hear the obvious similarity between Dune and Stephane's other music:
To this day, it is impressive to me what few people could achieve back then.
Being a big fan of Dune at the time, I had to go out and buy it as soon as I could.
I preferred it to Dune II by a long way, I felt it had much more of a story and atmosphere, and kept a lot of what I loved about the Dune universe.
I still find myself listening to the soundtrack every now and then.