Here's the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon interview of Brütal Legend developer and friend of the show Tim Schafer that
we were talking about last Friday.
If you've followed Brütal Legend at all, a lot of the details will be old hat to you, but some of the behind-the-scenes elements were new to me (and interesting whether or not they're new to you).
Game developers are stereotypically anti-social as far as humans go, but Schafer gives good interview here. Fallon's fanboyish approach to gaming may softballed the interview a little bit, but still, Schafer comes across as a guy who may not have chosen his profession for the minor chance that he may have to do Late Night-level press but is nonetheless not too uncomfortable with it. Without getting too editorial about the games industry as a whole, developers who can actually hold their own in this kind of high-level mainstream element are going to be necessary if gaming is ever to really be considered an entertainment platform on par with music, movies, etc.
Hell, I've seen a few of the bigger names on the Brütal Legend soundtrack do worse in the interview chair.
If you've followed Brütal Legend at all, a lot of the details will be old hat to you, but some of the behind-the-scenes elements were new to me (and interesting whether or not they're new to you).
Game developers are stereotypically anti-social as far as humans go, but Schafer gives good interview here. Fallon's fanboyish approach to gaming may softballed the interview a little bit, but still, Schafer comes across as a guy who may not have chosen his profession for the minor chance that he may have to do Late Night-level press but is nonetheless not too uncomfortable with it. Without getting too editorial about the games industry as a whole, developers who can actually hold their own in this kind of high-level mainstream element are going to be necessary if gaming is ever to really be considered an entertainment platform on par with music, movies, etc.
Hell, I've seen a few of the bigger names on the Brütal Legend soundtrack do worse in the interview chair.
