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« on: April 03, 2009, 10:27:12 AM » |
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I didn't see the Game Journalist rant at GDC, but Petri linked to Chris Hecker's bit on Twitter... which was fine and all, but during this Chris awarded Clint Hocking the Duct Tape Award and let him say a few words. The best part was:
"I thought we were going to learn something from the people who were making these independent games that were challenging the way we thought about games. A year later I think they've learned way more from us than we've learned from them, and they're kicking our asses. So if you like making triple-A games, it's not a fucking joke. You better fucking learn from these guys because they're going to decimate us. Badly. And you won't be making triple-A games anymore because you'll be out of business."
Not really related to game journalism, but pretty awesome nonetheless, yeah?
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« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2009, 11:11:43 AM » |
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That is some mighty fine quotation material. This guy sounds interesting! I'll have to watch the rant  |
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Ivan
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alright, let's see what we can see
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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2009, 11:14:11 AM » |
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When are all the GDC/IGF videos going to be available?
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progrium
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« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2009, 01:10:55 PM » |
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Ugh, probably not forever.
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hen hao wan
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« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2009, 03:00:57 PM » |
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It's a nice thing for him to say but I don't agree with it. I don't think indies have adopted very many game design strategies, tropes or whatever from big game business really, and I think that indie games really are making people think differently about games in a way that big game biz is and can not. But for me it's nice that people high up at places like Ubi are starting to feel inadequate like this: it's a good validation for making games the way one feels they should be made.
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« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2009, 04:36:06 PM » |
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He definitely talks like one. I attended his rant last year (for which he won that duct-tape award) and it definitely deserves the recognition awarded. However, it all kind of back around for me when his team released Far Cry 2 which basically had nothing in it from what he preached at his rant. Maybe he just rants to get other people (like us) to take the risks, I dunno... Kudos to him for being vocal about it, but practice what you preach. no?
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progrium
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« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2009, 04:38:08 PM » |
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Well obviously he needs to go indie. It can be difficult to do those difficult things he's challenging people to do in his talks at a large company like that.
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« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2009, 05:08:56 PM » |
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I've been trying to find an appropriate thread to contribute this to, this one will have to do. For those of you who weren't there, here's the mega64 introduction to the IGFIt certainly made me laugh, and is mildly related to the topic of the thread. |
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progrium
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« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2009, 05:12:04 PM » |
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Terribly appropriate. I loved that clip.
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« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2009, 06:23:38 PM » |
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The music video was awesome too.
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« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2009, 12:03:53 AM » |
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Video of hocking's mini rant is included in the youtube video of hecker's rant, which I saw here: http://chrishecker.com/Do_Your_Job_Well%2C_PleaseI do wish he'd elaborated a bit on what exactly indie is learning from mainstream ... aeiowu -- I think maybe he tried stuff with far cry 2 and it didn't work out like he'd expected? |
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