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Riding in Cars with Game Designers

June 25th, 2007 | Category: Game Design, Games, The Game Biz

Overheard while driving back from lunch last week:

Game Developer 1: “Hey, is [COMPANY REDACTED] still working on [GAME NAME REDACTED]?”

Game Developer 2: “Has E3 happened yet this year?”

GD1: “No, don’t think so…”

GD2: “Then no.” (grin)

One of the worst things about working in game development is knowing cool stuff and not being able to tell anybody. For instance, I am currently working on The Sims Castaway Stories. I can tell you that because the web site announcing the game is up. I can’t tell you anything else about it. As I’ve mentioned before, since Aspyr Media does almost all contract work, it’s absolutely vital that we not get a reputation for leakage.

I can’t wait for E3 to finally pass so I can tell you about the [COMPELLING FEATURE REDACTED].

What the…I can’t even tell them about that? Damn.

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6 Comments so far

  1. GBGames June 25th, 2007 9:39 am

    I’m just hoping that they include [COMPELLING REQUESTED FEATURE REDACTED] in the…hey, wait a minute!

  2. Dave Shramek June 25th, 2007 10:27 am

    But think of the alternative. Imagine producing a decent action RPG to a flurry of “meh”s because it isn’t what it was promised much earlier in the game’s development.

    Just a cautionary FABLE about telling people things before the ink is dry.

  3. Viridian June 25th, 2007 10:46 am

    Hee hee…I love game development snark.

  4. WonderMellon June 25th, 2007 1:05 pm

    Hmmm… this whole post just reeks of “I know something that you don’t know” :-)

    (Note: Smiley face used to indicate sarcasm so comment will not be misconstrued as ill-will)

    I guess that is just one of the drawbacks of working outside the game development world. I may not be able to mention upcoiming clients, but I can tell you all about [insert non-compelling new feature here]

    Living vicariously through game developer’s blogs :-)

  5. sol_hsa June 25th, 2007 2:15 pm

    I’ve found that I pretty much have to work on some hobby stuff just to have something to talk with my friends about. All work stuff is NDA:d..

    I was at a game industry party a while ago, and ten minutes in I just had to nod and smile when someone was speaking of some possible future hardware technology.. oh, the stories I could tell you if I could tell you. Maybe in a few years..

  6. Viridian Games » Finally! September 11th, 2007 12:47 pm

    [...] that horrible tease of a post I made a couple months back about how we here at Aspyr were working on cool things I couldn’t [...]

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