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el 06-Jul-2008 |  Ron Gilbert is probably best known for his work at LucasArts, where he worked on such favorites as Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Day Of The Tentacle. Most recently, he's worked on Penny Arcade Adventures and has a forthcoming title called DeathSpank. Gamasutra sat down for a somewhat lengthy interview, discussing the episodic model, working within the current industry framework, and moving outside the current studio framework into a more 'Hollywood' type model. On this aspect (shifting to a more 'team' based approach where people come together to work on specific projects), he's got this to say:
I think that it will [shift into a Hollywood-type model]. And I think that, ultimately, it has to. And I think we will shift to that model, but I think that there are a couple of things that have to happen before we really shift to that. One is that I think technology has to settle down a little bit. I think technology is moving forward really rapidly, and part of what a lot of teams do is exploring new technology, and I think that's kind of hard to do with an ad hoc thing. I think the other thing that's going to have to happen - and this is a really big one - is we're going to have to become unionized. Because I don't think that you're going to be able to grab all of these freelance people when you need them if there isn't some kind of a union structure that's over the top of them. You can't really have a bunch of animators just floating around from job to job with nothing in between. So I think there's going to have to be a lot more structure, and I think that's going to have to come in the form of unions - which, you know, I don't know that I really agree with that; I think unions bring a lot of bad things to gaming, but I think they're going to be necessary for us to move into that Hollywood model.
Interesting interview with a lot of content; worth plowing through if you're in the mood for some interesting reading. Spanking Death: Ron Gilbert Goes Episodic... And Loves It [Gamasutra]
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| Wallace & Gromit go episodic with Telltale |  Filed under: Action, Adventure
Not content with merely developing one episodic game series featuring a charming dog, Telltale Games has revealed a new game starring Aardman Animation's eccentric duo, Wa [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Jul-2008 by Ludwig Kietzmann in BreakingNewsEpisodicTelltale-GamesWallace-and-GromitWallace-and-Gromits-Grand-Adventures
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| PC Gaming a $10.7 Billion Industry [Games Convention 2008] | | The PC gaming industry pulled in $10.7 billion in 2007, with only 30 percent of that coming from retail sales, the president of the PC Gaming Alliance said today. Speaking at the Games Convention Developer's Conference in Leipzig, Rand Stude said that online PC [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Aug-2008 by Brian Crecente in Games Convention 2008 Games convention developer's conference Leipzig PC
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| Episodic Strong Bad Game Coming to WiiWare [Wiiware] | | Homestar Runner is coming! Homestar Runner is coming!
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, a series of episodic games for WiiWare, is coming to the Wii this June, Telltale Games announced today. The game will be released as a five-episod [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Apr-2008 by Brian Crecente in Homestar Runnerstrong badTelltale GamesWiiwiiware
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| WarGames: A Retrospective [PC Gaming] | | Wired has put together a retrospective on the silver anniversary of WarGames, which if it isn't the first movie premised on PC gaming, is certainly the most notable. The film came out in 1983, the summer of Return of the Jedi. And as I recall it at the time, WarGames was well [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Jul-2008 by Owen Good in PC Gaming Movies WarGames WOPR
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| Facebook Criticized For Violent "Game" [Facebook] | | With some calling Facebook the new frontier for gaming, it's unsurprising that it keeps making headlines. After all, it's not part of the gaming industry unless someone's complaining about excessive violence. Yes, game violence. On Facebook. If you're already a F [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Jul-2008 by Leigh Alexander in Facebook Controversy Social Networking Violence
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| Wal-Mart gaming blog holds 'green gaming summit' |  Filed under: Business
We couldn't help but feel a little guilty as we read about a recent "green gaming summit" held by Wal-Mart's gaming blog, Check Out. Perhaps it was the revelation that our consoles, which we constantly lea [..] Read complete article | | Published 31-Aug-2008 by Griffin McElroy in check-outenvironmentgreen-gaming-summitwal-mart
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| Rockstar's Houser - Fuck Casual Gaming [Casual Gaming] | | Apparently the post Grand Theft Auto IV release has the bravado reaching all-new levels over at Rockstar. In an interview with New York Magazine, Rockstar VP and GTA IV co-writer Dan Houser had some decidedly negative things to say about the industry's shift to [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-May-2008 by Mike Fahey in Casual GamingGta IvNewsOpinionRockstar"
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