Critical Path documentary grills gaming legends
Industry luminaries including Tim Schafer, Hideo Kojima, Jordan Mechner, Ken Levine, Sid Meier, John Carmack, Jenova Chen, Richard Garriott and Will Wright feature in Critical///Path, a documentary which aims to "give game designers their due as innovators and influencers of culture."
Games industry luminaries including--deep breath--Tim Schafer, Hideo Kojima, Jordan Mechner, Ken Levine, Cliff Bleszinski, Sid Meier, John Carmack, Jenova Chen, Richard Garriott, Clint Hocking, Todd Howard, Warren Spector, and Will Wright have sat in front of the camera for Critical///Path, a documentary which aims to "give game designers their due as innovators and influencers of culture." And breathe!
Creator Artifact Studios describes Critical///Path as a "transmedia project exploring the art, philosophy, politics and psychology of video games." The first step will be an online archive of video interviews with those fabled figures mentioned before, and many more.
Then they'll release a documentary film, and a mobile app for hip kids with pocket telephones.
For a teaser of the kind of ruddy exciting chat we can expect, watch the trailer.
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Industry luminaries including Tim Schafer, Hideo Kojima, Jordan Mechner, Ken Levine, Sid Meier, John Carmack, Jenova Chen, Richard Garriott and Will Wright feature in Critical///Path, a documentary which aims to "give game designers their due as innovators and influencers of culture."-
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He does seem to be the odd-one out there, in terms of inspiration. In terms of influence, he's right up there with Carmack (purely from the impact of his company's engine, of which he is the focal point.)
It's just too bad they (Epic) doesn't have an engineer like Carmack who can come out and give these kind of interviews; instead, we get a proxy-for-all-of-Epic's-work.-
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He does, but rarely. Rein, Capps and Bleszinski are the official brand ambassadors of Epic.
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Tim is very private.
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One of these things is not like the others
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Cliff B's works likely influenced more popular culture than anyone else on that list.
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Britney Spears likely influenced more pop music than most other early-2000's pop artists. Is that universally a good thing? No.
CliffyB knows how to play with marketing and is an excellent businessman, and he unfortunately used that to stilt gaming from 2005 onwards, with such things as Gears and the victory gong, the whole "power creative" speech at GDC, his years of putting down the PC platform, and his over-marketing of Bulletstorm, and now, Fortnite. His protege in training, Tanya Jessen, is carrying the torch.
I'd like to see an Epic project without the influence of CliffyB, Mark Rein, or Tanya Jessen, but that won't happen because they are effectively driving Epic's agenda.-
So you're saying that because you (or people) don't necessarily think CliffyB's contributions/influence on gaming are positive that he isn't noteworthy?
The fact that he has had influence in any capacity is noteworthy.-
He's overrated, mostly because he's a marketing genius who knows how to steal the stage.
I'm okay with him talking about third-person combat. First-person, he's been out of for 8 years, excluding Bulletstorm. Story? Cut his mike; the Dom's wife thing was not Shakespeare. That's like talking to Ken Levine on Unreal Engine 2.5 mousecode; NO... just... NO.
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Yeah, its kind of strange he isn't in there. I'd say he's one of the latest PC Gaming legend next to those other guys.
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Hmm no ken Levine either
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Great Stuff, listen guys, this is what every mainstream ignorant consumer should watch :P
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EPIC did nothing but being a tech service to other devs
UT is a Quake clone
GoW is a mediocre brown consolized PC derivative-
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I wish I could give all those mainstream ignorant consumers a piece o' my mind.
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