Boy, I wish Ron Gilbert could have read this post and tell me when he thinks about it.<\/p>\n
I’ll put a note in his blog.<\/p>\n
I just finished watching yet another episode of Unscripted, a show
\nabout a few actor wannabe’s and their struggle in the cruel harsh world
\nthat is Hollywood.<\/p>\n
They go to auditions, do stand-in and extra jobs, go do an acting class, and have emberrasing moments in their personal lives.
\nAll throughout this show, there are mini-speeches given by their acting
\nclass teacher, which reminds me every single stage director I’ve ever
\nmet. Pompous, arrogant, cocky, man who acts as if he knows everything
\nbetter then everyone else, especially better then you and me, but in
\nreal life he’s a loser who is yesterday’s news and all he can do now is
\nteach acting in the local high school.<\/p>\n
He keeps having speeches about how hard it is, how tough it is to be
\nsuccessful, how much the work itself (the acting work) is what’s
\nimportant, and there’s talk about talent, and agents, and politics, and
\nbackstabbing, and all sort of shit.<\/p>\n
But then I get reminded of the industry i try to be in.<\/p>\n
The game industry.
\nLike Ron Gilbert say all the time, even though the game industry really
\nreally wants to be as big as Hollywood, it’s light years away.<\/p>\n
The budgets for the largest games ever made, only makes a small tiny fraction in comparison to big time movies. In any case, and i want this written down first so i can have a copyright on it, my idea is this: And remember, if you do it before me, I’ll sue you, because now that I’ve dated my idea, it’s mine !!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boy, I wish Ron Gilbert could have read this post and tell me when he thinks about it. I’ll put a note in his blog. I just finished watching yet another episode of Unscripted, a show about a few actor … Continue reading
\nAnd to think that you might enjoy a movie for about two hours, but most
\ngames have 30+ hours of game play or they don’t get a publishing deal.
\nOnline games have much more then that in game play hours.
\nFrom what i know, games like Warcraft, gets budgets of something like
\n10 million dollars, while the crappy game I slaved over had no more
\nthen 300,000$ as it’s budget. while movies like Star Wars<\/a>, as IMDB tells me, have budget of $115,000,000 (estimated).
\nHell, the crappy company I work for, who makes this really boring file
\nstorage servers used to store the rendered data that makes movies have
\na budget of more then 10 million dollars.
\nOh and let me tell you about the cruel world of programmers… or
\nrather the cruel world of Israeli High Tech. Those actors in the series
\ncomplain that they have to work while they’re looking for they’re
\nbreak, that they feel uncertain, that it’s a tough world where dog eats
\ndog, where you get back stabbed by your best friends, where you don’t
\nknow what the future holds, and that if you’ll make it or not is not up
\nto you, because there are agents, and directors, and producers and a
\nwhole lot of bunch of people who have more power then you and all you
\ngot is your acting work.
\nWell, it’s the same here in my world. I don’t know if and how
\nlong my job’s gonna last, I don’t know if the company I work for
\nis going to exists in a month, I don’t have any power over what i do,
\nor what i don’t, and especially I don’t have power over weather
\nI’m successful or not.
\nAt least in the Hollywood acting industry, if you got talent, and
\nyou’re working hard, and with some luck you get to be successful, and
\nfamous and rich. In my world, both the probability of that happening is
\nlower, and the amount of money and fame you earn is much less.
\nI think that statistically, the mean average of our industry’s gain as
\nan individual is lower by a few orders of magnitude then of an
\nindividual in Hollywood. This is worth checking up, because i might be
\nrambling nonsense here.<\/p>\n
\nLets make a TV show\/movie\/comic strips\/flash cartoon\/computer game
\nabout guys who are trying to get a break as game developers, and the
\nharsh life and environment they are in.
\nWe’ve all seen SO MANY movies and tv series about making TV and movies.
\nBut in recent years, I almost haven’t seen one game that’s about making
\ngames. Yeah, you might think there’s not enough exciting material
\nthere, not enough meat to work with, and that’s where I disagree, and
\nwhere i come in the picture. Do you think that there’s enough meat in
\nthe commercial flight business to make a whole show about ? or in
\noffice life ? It’s the same thing. What makes a show\/movie\/game is it’s
\nstory, or stories. Not the setting, but the setting is what sets the
\nenvironment. And i say let’s have game making as the environment !
\nI haven’t seen any game developing in games since good ol’ larry 3.
\nLet do it !<\/p>\n