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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
| MMORPGDot Feature: A Conversation with Ian Livingstone |
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At last year's Australian Game Developers Conference, MMORPGDot editor Muun had the opportunity to speak to gaming industry legend Ian Livingstone. Co-founder of PnP gaming company Games Workshop with Steve Jackson, former chairman of Eidos Interactive and current Creative Director, Livingstone has been an instrumental figure in the industry. While Eidos isn't known for their RPGs and the conversation covers general gaming territory, the article gives a small insight into the views of an industry captain:<blockquote><em><b>MMORPGDot: You moved from pen and paper to computer games. Do you have a similar creative input into the latter as you did in the former?</b>
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<br>Ian Livingstone: Yes I do, I'm responsible for all the acquisitions of every game that we publish but I also ensure that I have a creative input into all of those titles. Rather than specialising on one game I put my finger in everybody else's pie really. I try and add a value from my long experience in gaming and try and help with the design of the games that we sign up. It's just really to get a focus on a few things that are important in the game to differentiate it from the competition. I'm always trying to make things clearer, simplifying the message where it's needed and find out why people care about the game. I want players to develop a strong sense of emotional attachment to the game. One thing I learnt from the role-playing games is that emotional attachment to characters is a very compelling feature of the game so I try and add realism and emotional attachment and get people to care about the character they are playing. If I can think of an angle, unique hook or selling point, I try and add that too.</em></blockquote>Read it <a href="http://www.mmorpgdot.com/index.php?hsaction=10053&ID=1206" target="_blank">here</a>. |
Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:50 pm |
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Ratavuk
Noble Knight
Joined: 08 May 2005
Posts: 213
Location: I-Net |
Oh great, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson were my hero's before i started playing video games and especially RPG's. They published the fighting fantasy books and i enjoyed them very much in it's time. |
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Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:53 pm |
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