Development Team

This exclusive information was given out to website hosts in 1999, and it describes the roles of each team member.
We used a document that dates back to 7/7/1999, was written by Susie Hamilton and it was found on some 'Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation' artwork disks, alongside the photographs of the Core Design team.

​NAME: Richard Morton
AGE: 26
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Level Creator
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: Creating Lara’s new locations, inventing the puzzles and traps, adding the enemies to each finished map, playing the entire game and checking playability.

WORK HISTORY: Yogi Bear, Scooby Doo, Chuck Rock II, Asterix and the power of the gods, Thunderhawk II, Tomb Raider II & III.

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: Easier level of difficulty (but not too easy!), more imaginative puzzles, more use of enemy A.I. An even more polished product.​
NAME: Peter Connelly
AGE: 26
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Musician/Audio producer
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: I’m currently responsible for all aspects of the audio side of Tomb Raider IV.

WORK HISTORY: I’ve worked in the games industry for about 4 years now. Previous released 
titles include Battleships (Hasbro), Risk (Hasbro), Mass Destruction (BMG), Europoker - arcade (Alien Leisure), Flesh Feast (Segasoft). I’ve also done some freelance work for companies such as Red-Lemon Studios (Glasgow). Prior to this I completed an OND and HND in Music Technology at Newcastle College of Arts and Technology. I’ve always been into music and have been composing tunes on computers since the early C64 days.

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: I now want to combine my overall experience and classical training, as a musician, and incorporate them into the advanced technologies we have here at Core Design to hopefully create some really breathtaking music for the fourth game.​

​NAME: Martin Gibbins
AGE: 29
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Programmer
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: I am working on effects, traps, puzzles and general engine changes / improvements.

WORK HISTORY: Asterix and the Great Rescue (Master System)
BC Racers (PC)
Blam! (PC/Playstation/Saturn)
ShellShock (PC/Playstion/Saturn)
Swagman (Playstation/Saturn)
Tomb Raider 3 (PC/Playstation)

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: A generally cleaner, more polished look and feel.​

​NAME: Andy Sandham
AGE: 29
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Level designer
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: Level design, graphics and objects required for levels specifically under my jurisdiction.

WORK HISTORY: BLAM! Tomb Raider III. Fighting Force.

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: Realistic interfacing with objects/ resulting in vastly improved gameplay!​

​NAME: Mark Hazelton
AGE: 26
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Graphic Artist
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: I produce all publicity graphics for Tomb Raider and Lara. This includes magazines, billboards and the box art. Posing Lara in a 3D software package, I build the relevant scenery and light accordingly. The image is then rendered and retouched by myself, to iron out any flaws and add special touches. When I have time I also help out with the games FMV by building models.

WORK HISTORY: Last employer Arc Developments
Titles of Developed Games: Rosco McQueen, Tomb Raider II, Tomb Raider III, Ninja, Fighting Force 1 & 2 

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LARA?: Exactly what the public demand!
NAME: Jerr O'Carroll
AGE: 34
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Animator
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: I’m responsible for the continuation of Lara’s ever-expanding movement abilities. New moves are a major part of what will help Tomb Raider grow, and hopefully these new ones will be up to the task! Also the games in-game cut-scenes and new vehicles.

WORK HISTORY: Various minor games on the old Amiga system. Running Man. Moonwalker. The Deep. 
Littil Divil and Team Suzuki for Gremlin. 
Gender Wars for SCI.
Heimdall 1 & 2, Premiere, Asterix, Ninja for Core – plus Tomb II, III & now the fourth. 

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: I’ll be giving Lara a whole new range of movements, which will add to the new adventure. Some are subtle ones, like increasing the speed of generic movements already existing. But also adding a brand new set which will add to the playing experience. It’s a big responsibility to work on something as large as Tomb Raider!​
NAME: Derek Leigh-Gilchrist
AGE: 25
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Console Programmer
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: Mainly Technical stuff - I’m in charge of Improving the Game Engine and Optimising the game code so we can get more things happening on screen such as environment mapping, skinning etc.​

WORK HISTORY: Tomb Raider  - Playstation
ShellShock - Playstation
Ninja – Playstation
Fantastic Dizzy (Sega Genesis,Amiga,CD32 etc.)
Cosmic Spacehead (Sega Genesis,Amiga)
Magicland Dizzy (Amiga, Atari ST)
Bubble Dizzy (Amiga, Atari ST)
Prince of The Yolkfolk Dizzy (Amiga, Atari ST)
Captain Dynamo (Amiga, Atari ST)
Battle Valley (Amiga, Atari ST)
Spot (Atari ST)

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: I`m hoping to make the fourth game the best looking Tomb Raider game yet, by improving the game engine to handle more polygons and more special effects. Lara already looks much better with skinned joints and 200 more polygons!​

​NAME: Richard Flower
AGE: 30
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Programmer
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: Responsible for the PC Version and the addition of some of the new features for both PC and PSX.​

WORK HISTORY: Previous employer Electronic Arts, titles worked on were a couple of canned products, then worked on the 3D Match engine for Premier League Manager. At Core, Tomb Raider III and Tomb Raider II: Golden Mask.

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: To create a more specific PC Version of the product, improved lighting, making better use of accelerator card features, to include multi pass rendering techniques.
Basically give PSX owners something to drool over...

​NAME: Joby Wood
AGE: 26
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Level Designer & Graphic Artist
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: Basically responsible for the production of the last few levels of the game, as well as mucking in with the rest of the team on other things like storyline, new features, etc.

WORK HISTORY: Battle Valley (Amiga). Pub Trivia (Amiga-St). Llamazap (St Falcon). Tempest 2000 (Jaguar-PC). Fantastic Dizzy (MegaDrive-Amiga). BC Racers (PC-3DO). Ninja Shadow of Darkness (Playstation).

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: As a new recruit to the Tomb Raider team, I will be helping to introduce some new puzzles and fresh ideas into the game.​

​NAME: Jamie Morton
AGE: 21
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Level Designer
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: The design, textures and objects for each of my levels. Where traps and enemies will be placed in the maps. Also to help produce the basis of the game story, and new ideas for puzzles and Lara animations.

WORK HISTORY: Tomb Raider III. Also map work on Thunderhawk 2 and Shellshock.

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: More involving puzzles, and traps that do not necessarily kill the player instantly. To help cut down the annoyance people have with the instant death situations.​

​NAME: Phil Chapman
AGE: More than 21, less than 40!
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Animator
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: Design and animation of enemies.

WORK HISTORY: Tomb Raider III animations

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: Better animation, of course! Plus a variety of very original baddies for Lara to pit her wits (or guns) against…​

NAME: Peter Duncan
AGE: 31
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Graphic Artist
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: Level design, modelling and texturing.​

WORK HISTORY: Display studio artist, and film school graduate.

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: To give a greater atmosphere, as well as make it a bit more of an adventure game, and also to bring the story development into the levels.​

​NAME: Tom Scutt
AGE: 34
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programmer​
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: Programming all the creatures and people (except Lara) in Tomb Raider 4. Prototyping the AI for other Core Design games.

WORK HISTORY: Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at Nottingham University for seven years… moved to Core in 1998 and worked on the AI in Tomb Raider 3 for the last six months of that project.​

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: Giving Lara enemies (and friends) that can move around the map (almost) as well as she can. Producing creatures that will surprise (and frighten), and rewarding players who think before they shoot

​NAME: Chris Coupe
AGE: 31
CURRENT JOB TITLE: Programmer
CURRENT JOB DESCRIPTION: PlayStation programmer on Last Revelation

WORK HISTORY: 86-89: Elite Systems Ltd
89-97: Arc Developments
97-99: Core Design

WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT YOU PERSONALLY HOPE TO GIVE LAST REVELATION?: To make it a lot more playable and even more polished than the previous versions!