The Art of LucasArts

Gamasutra has a piece talking with Michael Rubin about his new book, Droidmaker. From the article: "GS: Why do you think George Lucas saw the importance of games so early, and why was he able to capitalize on it so relatively well? MR: I think he actually didn't see the importance early. He had to be convinced that a games effort wasn't going to be a distraction. Quickly though, he was able to integrate his personal interest with education and using technology to aid in education, with the research going on in the games group. Making video games was only one aspect of that groups' work."

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GS: Why do you think George Lucas saw the importance of games so early, and why was he able to capitalize on it so relatively well? MR: I think he actually didn't see the importance early.

GS: George Lucas is a god! I want him to have meh babiez!
MR: Actually, he had no vision and isn't that great of a director and didn't even LIKE video games. Star Wars was literally ripped from Kurosawa, Empire was directed by someone else, in RotJ he brought us Ewoks, in TPM he brought us Jar Jar and the last movie could be entirely summed up by the word "younglings". What crack are you smoking that you love him so?

(fairly loose translation)