And of course Jon Romero would stop by in his MV and he'd be wearing this big overcloak thing and what with his long hair an all, he looked like some kind of rock star or drug dealer." Eventually a local newspaper ran a story revealing what really went on, which in turn led to an immediate eviction order for running a business in a residential area. Things got messy a few times." Good neighboursįurthermore, the neighbours were understandably confused as to the nature of their business, believing it to be more narcotic than Hipnotic, as Jim Dose explains: "We were shopping around for publishers at the time for our next project which was SiN, and so we'd always have these people in suits coming over with briefcases. They can't go and sit in the living room and watch TV and relax or bring chicks over, that kind of stuff, cos if they do, they gotta share.
It was really working non-stop, and everyone else gets to go home and relax whereas these guys can't because that's where they live. You can imagine, we're already working 15 hours a day, especially with that pack. While working on the Quake pack, the company was based in the house of programmer Jim Dose and artist Michael Hadwin, which, according to Harry, led to some especially unique problems.
That allowed us to do that in a really short period of time and was a really big confidence booster for us." It also allowed us to do a project as a team, together in six months, which was really neat because it's one thing to work on something, it's another thing to finish a project by yourselves.
We all came together and got a deal with iD to do their expansion pack, which was fantastic for us because it allowed us to jump straight into a project right away, and gave us money so we could own the company ourselves. They also called Tom Mustaine because he had done some really incredible work with Doom. They all decided to leave for whatever reasons and start a new company, and they were short of a business guy. Harry relates how the company came about: "It started out with five guys at Apogee Jim Dose, Mark Dochtermann, Michael Hadwin, Robert Atkins and Richard Gray. The JR Ewing of the operation is Harry Miller, who juggles his multiple duties of CEO, Biz Guy, Secretary and Janitor between sleeping and playing solo games of Tic-Tac-Toe. Located a hubcap's throw from the spot where JFK famously sullied the upholstery of his limo, Ritual are situated above a karaoke bar in the shadow of the imposing Dallas skyline, as featured in the title sequence of the soap opera of the same name (that's Dallas, not skyline).
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