"French/German TV channel Arte interviews two game designers from different generations on their current projects and the state of the industry today."
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Into the Night: Jason Rohrer and Chris Crawford
This episode of German/French documentary series, english title "Into The Night" features the meeting of my two favorite game designers, Jason Rohrer and Chris Crawford. Having seen the whole thing I can say that the quality of ideas, the way their conversations are framed, and the humanity between them really brings the whole ivory tower aspects of game design down to earth. If the object of these documentaries is to bridge games as a high to the wider world of New York Times reading film goers, then this is perhaps the most effective. (--PlayThisThing.com)
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Alright, if that isn't material for inspiration then I don't know what it is. It's 4 am here and I'm stuck in my chair writing about a game design idea revolving around coming up with ideas.
ReplyDeleteAnd, you know, I've had a million and one ideas before, but nothing as monstruous as this. But on the other hand, it's an ant compared to storytron.
Anyways, I'm kind of rambling here, I should probably try and get some sleep.
Haha yes, these two can have that effect. Combine both and... well, you'll stay awake till 4am :)
ReplyDeleteOf course Storytron -at least as idea- will overpower any other design, as he says, it is like the culmination of his life. A life dedicated to pioneering game design, to mark the path and to do some magic.
Chris Crawford is like the Gandalf of our industry.
Although some of his words bother me, and its about the part when he says "if it fails, my life was a failure" (or something along those lines). I dont quite follow that; he means commercially? he means socially? Because I cant see how a design of a life can possibly fail, even if no one ever plays it, its there, like a piece of art.
I guess that he cares a lot about the public recognition of his work, and that if it fails commercially it fails as a design... a mindset which I don't share in particular, but can sympathize with (he said he'd be financially bankrupt if storytron didn't succeed).
ReplyDeleteYes, thats what I thought initially.
ReplyDeleteNow Im thinking he is so certain of his sucess that he is not really conecting with what he says about failure.
The money connects the dots: that certainty, makes him put all his money into it, and also, as you say, would turn a failure into a disaster.
You know, I recently changed lolzorz's hosting and improved the video quality of the Rohrer - Crawford Video, just in case you want to change the embedding (because the old one isn't working) the new url is:
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Much appreciated Mr. Don Hilo!
ReplyDeleteDude, your spam filter ain't working right =P
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