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Warren Spector on Licensing
An anonymous reader writes about an "interview with Warren Spector about his thoughts on licensing movies for games. From the article: 'At these Hollywood meetings, the same thing has happened to me more than once, with multiple people...I describe the game I want to do. I tell them I can deliver you a triple-A title for this cost...Spector names a high figure; no one has ever yet written a check that big...They think it over. Then they say...What could you do with twice as much money?'"
Good Lord, that article made my eyes hurt. Obviously the article's content mattered less than ensuring the cool background graphics were aligned with a specific font size. The result is that one can't punch up the font size without the text overlapping.
Attention web designers of Slashdot: one of you probably knows the individuals who developed this site. If you do, it is now your professional and moral obligation to smack some sense into them. That is all.
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
" isnt that guy on trial for shooting a B-movie actress in the head while getting a BJ?"
You're thinking of Phil Spector.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Spector
The pursuit of absolute tolerance leads to the most rigorous and ludicrous intolerance. - REX MURPHY
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/deve loperId,127/
:P
Shows he worked on
Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home
Which as you can see says it was a licensed title.
Technology, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
Do not allow such design styles in websites to become popular. Please! I'll do anything! PLEASE!
Mod parent up. Movies really don't make as much as they used to.
Here's a link to the top 100 films, by domestic gross, adjusted for inflation. It tells a very different story. Titanic isn't even in the top 5.
Almost all video game conversions of movies (and TV shows) fucking suck, just like all movie versions of video games fucking suck.
Looking at the Metacritic list of PS2 games in score order, the best movie game ever is Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, at 85%--but that puts it at #183 on the chart. So basically, there are hundreds of games better than the very best video game ever based on a movie.
Now look at the bottom of the chart. By my count, 15 of the 40 worst PS2 games ever are movie/TV games.
Personally, I find it amazing that people are still willing to throw money at developing video game tie-ins for movies and TV, and even more amazing that suckers are willing to buy them.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Movies really don't make as much as they used to.
From the box-office point of view, yes. But if you add revenues for TV licensing, DVD, pay-per-view and merchandising, the numbers are quite different. Box-office accounts for less than a half of a film's revenue.