demagogue on 26/7/2012 at 08:11

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Well this is sort of cool.

I guess I'd ask what things they were most proud of from their time in LGS -- sort of cliche though.

You could ask them about that time someone referred to "Games made for MIT grads" as an insult (was that Levine & co trying to shield Bioshock from the charge?), which is a pretty transparent knock at LGS**... And maybe ask them what's fair & what's unfair about that kind of criticism for games these days, or just comment on it.

Like it's understandable that games being overly complex for no good reason* isn't the best thing, but watering games down to the most shallow common denominator can't be healthy in the end either.

* LGS games never struck me in that way though; that'd be more like Dwarf Fortress, although that ironically kind of cornered the market in overly-complex games because of the very paranoia out there in making them means there's not that many of them for that niche.

** Edit: I think you all know this, but it's a transparent knock against LGS of course because it was in Boston, half of them actually were MIT grads I think, and somewhere they described the atmosphere of the office as very university like, where people tossed off creative ideas like it was an academic project, not so much a business...

BrokenArts on 26/7/2012 at 16:11

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:p:)

It would be interesting to find out, the attendee's, how many of them are familiar with Looking Glass, anyone want to guess? I'm thinking on the low side. We went a couple of years ago, mainly young college guys. Some of which needed a shower..... desperately. :sweat:

june gloom on 27/7/2012 at 04:54

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Said the right way it certainly could qualify as an insult, though.

Vivian on 7/8/2012 at 09:10

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Yeah, this is what I'd want to hear as well.

taffersshadow on 8/8/2012 at 12:19

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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzUi5aQTftg) Linky

Watching it now myself...