Peter Jackson on the Future of Storytelling 42
Via VoodooExtreme, an article on Team Xbox covering a panel at X06 on the future of storytelling in games. Along with Mr. Jackson, industry veterans Peter Molyneux and Greg Zeschuck weigh in on this issue. The meat of the article is a video of the presentation, which is regrettably in .wmv format. The Escapist has some highlights of the conversation up in their news section. "'I've got to the stage now where I just end up catching something on DVD and I'm more excited about games coming out in the next 2-3 months than films,' said Peter Jackson, director of Lord of The Rings and founder of Wingnut Interactive, an offshoot of his movie studio. 'That created an awareness in me of the shift in entertainment options out there, and if I'm feeling that others are too.'"
feelings, woah, woah, woah, feelings... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm feeling, Peter, that you're feeling influential enough to generate feelings among the hoi-polloi, the better to feel your wingnut investment a bit heavier on the hip.
Just a feeling.
Re:Who wouldn't be more interested in games? (Score:3, Funny)
I remember when interactive fiction was the best thing ever. You could tell the computer what you wanted to do and it would do it.
Pheh. You kids! Back in my day, "interactive fiction" meant you jumped to the bottom of the page, where it read something like, "To stay to help the gnome, turn to page 21. To run away, turn to page 16."
And we liked it that way!