Released on: 1999
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Indie Game Developers Discuss Their Failures
Prototype. Don't get comfortable. Keep your head up. That was the message at yesterday afternoon's "Failure Workshop" at the Game Developers Conference. 6 different independent developers, responsible for titles like "World of Goo," "Off-Road Velociraptor Safari," and Plants vs. Zombies," shared their development horror stories to help an audience of hundreds. Here's what we learned from their months and sometimes years of pain.
"No amount of 'theming' will save a bad idea."
Kyle Gabler, half of indie dev 2D Boy, spoke about the follow-up to PC/Wii/iPad success "World of Goo." The title, "Robot and the Cities That Built Him," sounded fun: a giant robot destroys a city over and over again. But the game, as Gabler describes it, was boring. Very boring. It took two months of polish before the two-person team bothered to prototype the game. With tangible proof that the core idea, while entertaining thematically, was no good,»
- Chris Plante
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Doug Liman: a man Bourne to heal | Ed Gibbs
The Bourne Identity director wants to turn his multimedia project about Guantбnamo detainees into a documentary
He's better known for inadvertently reviving Bond and spawning Brangelina, but Doug Liman's latest project couldn't be more different to his big-budget actioners The Bourne Identity and Mr and Mrs Smith.
Inspired after his recent shift towards the Washington politics of Fair Game, which is released tomorrow, Liman found the promotional trail for his take on the Valerie Plame affair attracting a fresh set of voices – those of the American Civil Liberties Union (Aclu) and the Pen American Centre.
The various parties had plenty to talk about. The Aclu had been pushing for the release of thousands of classified documents detailing Us conduct in prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantбnamo Bay. The fruits of their labour – 150,000 documents released under freedom of information law – gave an account of what went on behind closed doors.»
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