| Ace_O_Spades |
03-13-2005 12:18 AM |
Required Reading: Burn the House Down
http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonde...he_house_.html
too long to put in quotes in this article, but suffice to say it is an excellent read from the viewpoint of several big name devs who tell it like it is.
This is one of my favorite parts:
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How often DO they perform human sacrifices at Nintendo?? My friends, we are FUCKED [laughter]. We are well and truly fucked. The bar in terms of graphics and glitz has been raised and raised until we can’t afford to do anything at all. 80 hour weeks until our jobs are all outsourced to Asia. but it’s ok because the HD era is here right? I say, enough. The time has come for revolution! It may seem to you that what I describe is inevitable forces of history, but no, we have free will! EA could have chosen to focus on innovation, but they did not. Nintendo could make development kits cheaply available to small firms, but they prefer to rely on the creativity on one aging designer. You have choices too: work in a massive sweatshop publisher-run studio with thousands of others making the next racing game with the same gameplay as Pole Position. Or you can riot in the streets of redwood city! Choose another business model, development path, and you can choose to remember why you love games and make sure in a generation’s time there are still games to love. You can start today.
[standing ovation]
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I agree with most everything that was said. I just recently played through Fallout again, and jeez, it made me realize that you really don't need top notch graphics in order to have a game that will make you sit there for 8 hours without blinking.
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