Yet Another Dan Connors Interview: possible lawyer game as pilot?
A long interview with some interesting tidbids:
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/704545/Telltale-Games-Explains-Why-Theyre-Bringing-TV-Style-Pilots-To-Games.html
Choice excerpts:
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/704545/Telltale-Games-Explains-Why-Theyre-Bringing-TV-Style-Pilots-To-Games.html
Choice excerpts:
One thing we might do...there's a lot of talk around here about lawyering types of games and taking advantage of our tools to do that or other types of ways that you interact with players in table-based games. We did our poker thing back in the day and that was a fun and quick thing for us, so our tools are capable of producing a lot of different experiences and that's what this is about.
G4: One of the things that happens in the TV model is it's not necessarily all produced internally -- pilots can be outsources, ideas can come from the outside. Is the Pilot Program something that could possibly expand outside of Telltale?
Connors: Oh, yeah. That's definitely part of our growth plan so we go from a huge operation to a mega-huge operation. Definitely, I think that's something [we could do]. We've got a channel, we've got a infrastructure to support product coming through, so it may be something where we look for partners to work on something and maybe something where somebody is incubating an idea or a concept that's just a really cool franchise and has an installed base and taking a shot in the interactive world makes sense and it makes sense to us, so it might be that kind of thing.
We're also doing R&D about how to work with the connected elements -- Facebook, Twitter elements and iPhone and really trying to figure out what the connected experience is going to be like as devices become more diverse but can support an equally high level of content.
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"We're in production on other titles that will be our more typical Telltale stuff" makes it sound like more than one new series/season is actively being developed. I wonder if one of them is another CSI game -- what is the CSI team working on now?
np: David Bowie - John, I'm Only Dancing (The Best Of David Bowie 1969-1974)
Does that include sbcg4ap season 2?
It better!
Could you stop producing lava and ash from Eyjafjallajökull, then? Iceland would really appreciate it, I'm sure.
Is that the name of the volcano that's causing the problems? I wondered why the news never said it by name and instead just called it the Iceland volcano. Now I know. How on Earth do you pronounce that!
Like so
:eek:
Wow. I'm impressed by anyone who can pronounce that.
And I wanna learn!
Make me remember when I watched the Lazy Town Plays in Icelandic, the First one is Awful (Your eyes bleed!), the second one is watchable. With luck. But I did just because I wanted to say Íþróttaálfurinn correctly. And I think I already forget all about that...
Wow. That's one complicated language. I've never been able to get to grips with foreign languages, thankfully I'm a lot better at British Sign Language. I think it helps that it's visual. Whereas spoken languages all get a bit... muddly. Thanks for showing me!
P.S. Sorry for taking everyone off topic.
Ha ha ha ha !
*wipes eyes*
That's quite all right
(Plus, that was more informative than a lot of our off-topicness).
True story.... I can not properly pronounce my Wifes birth name.... everytime I try she is like "nope you're saying it wrong"
Her name is Ntxuaj
She has a legal alias so I and everyone call her by that.... her Legal Alias is Zua
Okay, here is my try. Is it anyone's first or second language so they can correct me?
I suspect you know that there is a difference between something good, something very good and even more something oustanding, right?
The majority of the TTG games is floating around in a somehow good quality cloud but just not above it. I miss that extra portion of quality which lifts something away from this, up, closer to the edge.
Yesterday I watched, for the first time, an episode of the show Castle. It happened to be this episode. Really felt like if Telltale wanted to make a game with the "feel" of a Phoenix Wright game, Castle would be a great license to pursue. Obviously it's not about lawyers so you wouldn't have the courtroom scenes, but I still think that would be too derivative anyway; the real heart of Phoenix Wright came from unraveling bizarre mysteries by interrogating quirky characters and making crazy leaps of logic, and this show has the right elements to work the same way.
Let's open the floor for discussion. If Telltale were going to make a Phoenix Wright style game, what sort of franchise/concept would you want to see it done with?