DMA Design Legends Discuss Lemmings, GTA & More in New Zzap! Live 2025 Interview

Zzap! Live: For anyone fascinated by Scotland’s rich videogame heritage, a newly published interview with some of the original DMA Design team members offers a captivating journey back to the origins of some of the studio’s most iconic titles.

If you’re new to this, DMA Design was the creative force behind global phenomena Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto. Several of the original team members, including Mike Dailly, Gary Timmons, Steve Hammond, Russell Kay and Brian Watson, recently attended the retro gaming event Zzap! Live 2025, and a recording of their group Q&A session is now available to watch on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/wim-7mbX6a0?si=Zsg6tMw0aRhWsNgY

The interview, titled DMA Design, Creators of Lemmings, GTA & Shadow of the Beast. Q&A Talk at ZZap! Live 2025 Event, was published on May 23, 2025, on the “Back to 8-bit YouTube channel. Spanning nearly an hour and a half, the Q&A discusses the genesis of the studio’s games.

Zzap! Live, an event celebrating the golden era of retro videogames, provided the perfect backdrop to share their insights into the creation of classics like Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto, Shadow of the Beast and more.

Don’t miss out on this fascinating piece of game development history. You can watch the full DMA Design Q&A from Zzap! Live 2025 here.

(And if that inspires you to learn more about Lemmings, the feature-length documentary, Lemmings: Can You Dig It?, is streaming now. You can find it here.)

#dmaDesign #events #games #gta #history #lemmings #scotland #ShadowOfTheBeast #ZzapLive

@JakobFel Walker is probably my favourite. Does that count?
#Amiga
#DMADesign

Sundry Sunday: Oh no! It’s the Lemmings 2 Music Video!
You know, it's a effort sometimes to keep up this weekly game culture section. Youtube's algorithm sucks unless you have an account you use for one purpose and none other, for it's always trying to send you things related to the very last thing you wa
https://setsideb.com/sundry-sunday-oh-no-its-the-lemmings-2-music-video/
#sundaysundry #audio #dmadesign #lemmings #Lemmings2 #MusicVideo #psygnosis #SFX #sundrysunday #video #youtube

Looks like I'm going to Zzap! Live this year! Might even be on a #DMADesign panel.

#RetroGaming

On Fri we had the (yearly) curry night of ex- #DMADesign computer games people. First time I was able to turn up in ages. Thirty years since we made games, and some of us still do! This is where Lemmings, GTA and Hired Guns came from.

#ComputerGames #GamesHistory #Dundee #Scotland

“35 Years Ago - DMA Moved Into Its First Office - The Scottish Games Network

https://scottishgames.net/2024/08/02/35-years-ago-dma-moved-into-its-first-office/

> On August 1st 1989 DMA Design, the Dundee studio behind Lemmings & Grand Theft Auto moved into its first ever office in Dundee's Nethergate.”

Well, 35 years ago yesterday :)

#DMADesign #ScottishGamesIndustry #ScottishHistory

We Built the Unreleased Lemmings Arcade Cabinet from 1991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6govmHnc2U #VideoGames #VideoArcades #ComputerGames #Arcade #ArcadeGames #Lemmings #DMADesign #DMA #90sGames #VintageGames #RetroGames #RetroComputing #RetroGaming

Lemmings in real (Human) life!

#Lemmings #retrocomputer #console #videogames #DMADesign #Psygnosis #MikeDailly #DavidJones #TimWright
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I have a new blog post up, in which I am (inaccurately) called a mastermind by my local newspaper, regarding #GrandTheftAuto.

https://www.stevehammond.org/2024/01/GTA-Again.html

#GTA #DMADesign

Oh no!

#lemmings #dundee #cityofdiscovery #dmadesign #amiga

Hey, my local paper has mentioned me! The Courier has an article asking about the creators of #GTA #GrandTheftAuto asking "Where are they now?"

I'm made to seem more important than I really was, so I'm not going to quibble about the small inaccuracies TOO much. 😁

#DMADesign

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/4837660/grand-theft-auto-dundee-dma-design-creators/

Mon nouveau projet de vie.

#Lemmings #Retrogaming #DMADesign #PerlerBeads #Pixelart #Psygnosis

@pasimako Love #Lemmings, but it’s the #Commodore Amiga original for me. (Did you know you could play split-screened with someone else using a second mouse on #Amiga and #AtariST?)

Here’s a great origin story from #DMADesign programmer @mdf200: http://www.javalemmings.com/DMA/Lem_1.htm

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #gaming #VideoGames

Bonus #photos taken by my husband during his lunch break on Tuesday. Mainly taken from #Seabraes near the University of #Dundee, #Scotland. #Photography #Nature #Insects #Grasshopper #Grasshoppers #Ladybird #Ladybirds #Lemmings #ComputerGames #VideoGames #90sGames #Sculptures #PublicArt #Reflections #Clouds #Sky #DMA #DMADesign #Rockstar

"Bloooood Money"

#commodore #cbm #AMIGA #BloodMoney #Psygnosis #DMADesign #retrocomputer #retrogaming #videogames #80s #90s #Geek

Oooooo... my old #HiredGuuns may viewer I did for Scott back at #DMADesign

Apparently doesn't work on newer #Amiga's, but I do still have the source kicking around. I'll see if I can package it up and upload it somewhere.

I quite fancy loading in HG levels and making them "proper" 3D.... that could be fun.

#retro #retrodev #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

It still works! #Amiga Admittedly been a year since I last had it on. Bought in 1992 as a "developer" machine for a developer price, back when I worked at #DMADesign

I knew I'd seen that #DMADesign picture before, and dug this out of my archives. It was taken for the #Dundee Courier 29 May 1997, on the occasion of DMA's flotation.

"That has to be good news for staff..."

#GTA #Lemmings #RetroGaming

Oh, and here's one of DC Thomson's images from #DMADesign in the mid nineties. That's me at the front on the left. Next to the robotic Lemming on a tricycle we'd had made.

#Lemmings #GTA