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The Grumpy Gamer Speaks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the welcome-to-monkey-island dept.

Ron Gilbert, well-known for his work during the golden age of LucasArts adventure games, is also well known as The Grumpy Gamer. Gamasutra has up an interview with Gilbert, discussing his career in the post-Threepwood period of his life. From the article: "It's actually kind of frightening, you know. You sit down with a publisher and the minute you mention anything like an adventure game or something story-based or adventure-game-like in any way, the meeting's basically over. So the publishers do have a huge resistance to this. And I think a lot of it is that they cannot point to anything like this that is successful in the market today. So it's very difficult for them to put anything behind it. It's a very difficult process."

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  1. HOLD IT! by Kamineko · · Score: 2, Informative

    You sit down with a publisher and the minute you mention anything like an adventure game or something story-based or adventure-game-like in any way, the meeting's basically over.

    Your Honor, how do you explain the existence, and subsequence release of the popular Nintendo DS adventure-attourney game, 'Phoenix Wright: Ace Attourney' (Originally a Game Boy Advance game: 'Gyakuten Saiban' roughly 'Comeback Court')

  2. Re:What can it possibly cost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ron Gilbert's already made the calculations for you on his website. His project development total, without marketing, comes to around $950,000. See:
    http://grumpygamer.com/4904226