Extracto de un artículo de Fingergaming:
“If a game earns 50% more revenue at a lower price point, it’s a pure win situation as the developer makes more money AND more people get to enjoy the game. And if those two things are true, does it really matter what the sale price is?”
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“If you want a job, make a great demo and sent it to every publisher and team you would like to work for. Tell them you’ve sent it to every publisher. This means that if they like it, they will move very, very fast. Good people are very hard to find…”
“We’ll see how the market reacts but I think people like games that are different. Even if they’re not perfect, I think just the fact that they’re different… people really respect that, so that’s what we’re hoping for.”
“I don’t know how you’d do something for a single market, such as Italy. Maybe you could do something really niche, but to be a world player, God, it’s frightening for these small companies.”
“I’d say about 40% of the programming time on Tomb Raider was spent developing tools, which was well worth it because then the artists can go off and put all their expression into what they’re doing without bothering us all the time.”
“You can’t put playability in a game design document. There might be a few key points but playability is just about playing the game. Does it feel right? And if it doesn’t feel right, you need to tweak it.”
“We forget that games are about limitations. Limitations are what really makes games. Take the game of chess -possibly the greatest game of all. You’re on this stupid board and you’ve got 64 squares, you can’t move off the board, and the pieces only move in certain, really horrible ways that are totally stifling to your creativity. Yet, here is this incredibly rich game.”
“Madrid is perhaps one of the last places one would look when scanning the globe’s videogame development community for innovation, but burgeoning outfit Rebel Act Studios is crafting technology which looks set to put the city it calls home on the map in style.”
“Carmel concluded, when it comes to pairing with publishers, “don’t do it,” and suggested a flat-fee upfront deal for regional retail publishers. He also noted that for digital distribution, you should focus on the big guys to get your game into a prominent distribution area — PSN, XBLA, WiiWare, and Steam.”
“And the question is, how many times are you willing to lose before you give up?”
“When we design games that kill the player repeatedly, most people don’t get the message that the game is challenging; they get the message that they’re dummies who can’t survive ten seconds in a game.”