Jurassic Time

Trespasser- The Lost World: Jurassic Park; a sadly failed and forgotten game from 1998. Instead of delivering on a fully-realized world of dinosaurs in a 3D environment, it instead produced endless headaches for most of its gamers as they attempted to trek through the various bugs and glitches; much more terrifying than any dinosaur. However, the story that was told through Richard Attenborough's performance of John Hammond was masterful and quite unforgettable. Unfortunately, it was a performance that would have been lost entirely if it weren't for efforts to excavate all the audio files from its depths.

I didn't want fans of Attenborough or Jurassic Park to miss out on what I believed to be a deeply thoughtful and melancholy look into the mind of the park's creator: a story not told with this level of personal marred recollection in the novels by Michael Crichton or the films by Steven Spielberg. In the past, I only had what was recorded for the game in its files. It was in a jumbled mess that I had to put in a storytelling order, fitting it as correctly as I could, like pieces of a complex puzzle. Setting it to Bill Brown's incredible score from the game was like having Attenborough's words put to a lovely beat and rhythm to be enjoyed. The end result was Jurassic Time: The Memoir Of John Parker Hammond (a name derived from the game's strategy guide). The audio program was finally a way to experience the story apart from the game, in the most complete way possible. Through various editions, I eventually added some sound effects, additional tracks, and other enhancements into the mix.

After some attempts to get the story across, things became pleasantly complicated when I received a wonderful gift from the game's writer, Austin Grossman. It was a complete scan of the actual script read by Attenborough for the recordings! However, on those pages were about 80 sets of additional dialogue that were apparently never recorded. The additional dialogue had wonderful and engaging information that really gave a bigger scope to the story that was told.

It was then that I knew I had to "excavate" a proper book compilation of the entire story. Just like the audio files, the script was all out of order; categorized by sections of dramatic tone for Attenborough to read instead of within context of storytelling. After putting it all in the best order possible, I made the entire book look like something John Hammond himself had put together. It comes complete with fantastic illustrations. This style was later adapted into an engaging video program.

I eventually had the tools to bring this additional dialogue to life with a synthetic recreation of Richard Attenborough's voice using audio from Trespasser. The audio and video presentations had the new dialogue bookended with Anne, performed by Minnie Driver: a woman stranded on Isla Sorna after an unfortunate vacation accident. She comes across "Hammond's Lost Diary", which features the rest of Hammond's intended story with these recreated files. It was the final step in having the entire story performed.

The Hammond Memoir has been through many variations over the years, but the "Definitive Edition" was finally created. I still cannot believe it has been over a decade since I decided to bring Hammond's buried story to the surface for everyone to enjoy. This final incarnation will hopefully stand the test of time like the very story it tells.

Jurassic Time: The Memoir of John Parker Hammond is something I have been very proud of preserving, and will always hold dear. I hope you will, too.

- Derrick Davis, Creator of Jurassic Time, 2021

Preserved Hammond Recordings

Presented for the first time are the entire available and unedited recordings of Richard Attenborough’s performance of John Parker Hammond from the DreamWorks Interactive PC Game Trespasser- The Lost World: Jurassic Park. These were the same files featured in Jurassic Time: The Memoir Of John Parker Hammond audio program, an audiobook-style presentation that included music from the game edited to carry the story. Most of the files are sourced from an early alpha version of the game that featured the best quality available. The retail version of the game featured degraded quality and dreamlike echo effects on the voice, whereas these are mostly the untouched recordings with fantastic sound. Some of the dialogue remains edited, in stereo, with minor atmospheric effects (but are also offered SFX-free in the 'Additional Files' thanks to new removal software). A set of dialogue that reads an old diary entry sadly remains in intentionally degraded quality. Also included are a few alternate versions of the dialogue and some additional dialogue selected from the DreamWorks Interactive PC Game Chaos Island- The Lost World: Jurassic Park that is hard to come by (and sadly in poor quality).

In addition, the files created by a synthetic recreation of Richard Attenborough's voice using audio from Trespasser are also included. These were heard in the "Hammond's Lost Diary" tracks. They continue the rest of Hammond's intended story, as seen in the game's original script.

The files are all organized in folders in the order done for The Definitive Edition. It should be noted that in the game files themselves there was no storytelling order at all; just a scattered, incoherent mess. After over a decade of different versions of The Hammond Memoir, I decided it was finally time to have the recordings themselves easily accessible. While I still firmly believe The Definitive Edition is the best way to experience Hammond’s story, I know these files have been long-requested. So here they are; preserved for all time.

Jurassic Time.

Anne And Hammond's Audio Adventure

Hi guys!

A few months ago I began work on an audio project, similar to that of Jurassic Time, entitled Anne's Audio Adventure. It was the first time I'd done something like that, and following that, I decided I would try to do a longer, more Trespasser-canon audio script. In the works from around August, this was scripted and put together over the course of about a month. It follows Anne's journey through the island, based on a prose-like walkthrough, before the "actual" prose walkthrough release. It is based on what that walkthrough dictated, the retail build of Trespasser, and a bit of imagination in between to fill in some gaps.

As I'm not a complete expert when it comes to audio creations, or canon-Trespasser scripts (and the like), please consider this a sort of "basic version" - it's open to feedback and further development. Consider it partly a community project - I know this isn't perfect, and there are probably some parts which all of you won't like, thus it's a sort of "first complete build beta stage" thing. However, it does contain every single VA and VH included in Build 96, and VH162 from the Retail version (at least, I tried to include all of them, and I think I did).

You can download the transcript files here: Anne And Hammond's Audio Adventure Transcript Download

Anne's Audio Adventure

Anne's Audio Adventure was made by LtSten in the spirit of Jurassic Time. It follows the same theme but with Anne instead of Hammond. This is an early version of the "Anne And Hammond's Audio Adventure" project.

Trespasser Soundtrack

Download and listen to the full Trespasser soundtrack. You can download the promo soundtrack made by Bill Brown (but originally unreleased) or the complete collection, compiled and collected by Scallenger.