Interview With Bing Gordon (EA)

djedery writes "I interviewed Bing Gordon (Chief Creative Officer of EA) via email. We discussed game design in academia, outsourcing, game scheduling / budgeting, games for India / China, getting along with marketing, and risks." Decent interview; could be longer but the line about reverse engineering the Genesis is an interesting one, especially considering that some of the current legislative attempts would make that illegal.

/. effect = fame

[andrewman327]

"The best grads will have 'published' at least one project to public acclaim, such as 10,000+ downloads..."

10,000? So one link on /. can make a person one of the "best grads."

Overall a great interview. I like where it talks about the need for business acumen in software development. It seems that there are certainly developers who are missing this.

Re:my question

[Anonymous Coward]

Tons. I, for example, work for a major game company that I can't mention, in the position of CCO.

Do you know how hard I worked to come up with the idea of switching from Arabic to Roman numerals for the continuation of our flagship franchise?

Hrmph, I thought not.

This is barely an improvement

[saboola]

I read Interview with Bing! 2006 and Interview with Bing! 2007 seems to be just a rehashing of the same ideas as the prior just with updated information. Ever since EA has gotten exclusivity to the Interview with Bing! license the whole series has gone down hill.

Re:Bing Rocks

[Anonymous Coward]

I remember talking with other EA people at the Redwood Shores building and laughing at just how hardcore EA execs when it came to putting console makers in their place.

That comment was built with English words, but I'll be damned if I can parse it into an English sentence that makes any kind of sense.

You're looking in the wrong place

[BlackCobra43]

The creativity stems from figuring out which game developer they feel like purchasing, bleeding dry then discarding next like the financial vampires they are.

Re:I could never take seriously a man named Bing..

[CDLewis]

This coming from SkunkPussy ...

Re:Bing Rocks

[mad.frog]

If by "rocks" you mean "is a fucking tool", then yes, Bing rocks and rocks hard.

But then I'm guessing you haven't experienced his management style directly.