It’s all about gameplay! It’s all about story!
It’s all a pile of BS. It’s true. Thousands of developers “claim” to focus on gameplay just like thousand of animators “claim” to focus on story… but in the end, I’ve always believed the final quality is related to the average skill/talent of the people who made the game/film no matter what the ideologies the people espouse.
Ed Catmull (of Pixar fame) talks about how many studios “focus on stories just like Pixar” but fail to deliver quality storytelling “just like Pixar.” He believes it’s the people who contributed the most to Pixar’s success and so I do.
Catmull says, “If you give a good idea to incompetent people, they will ruin it. If you give a bad idea to a great team, they will fix it.”
Here’s his Stanford talk about Pixar and why it has been successful.
His main motto is: The difference in a successful company and a failed one is “the people.”
Add comment February 6th, 2009