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March 21st, 2014, 23:06
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In a Puppeteer (http://www.joystiq.com/game/puppeteer) postmortem peppered with prickly punditry, Sony Computer Entertainment's Gavin Moore gave attendees of the Game Developers Conference (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/gdc-2014) a small idea of what he and his team hope to craft next. Coming offPuppeteer, a dark and clever PlayStation 3 platformer carved from the world of theater, Moore intends to pitch and pursue three to four smaller games beyond the borders of retail stores.
"I think we're too reliant on stores to sell our products for us," Moore said. Though Puppeteer failed to find a large audience – "not a disaster by any way," he added – it seems to have spurred a serious rethink of retail, marketing and the backbreaking work of creating a unique and polished game. Moore intends to "make three or four products at once, and put them up on the net somewhere for people to download.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/21/puppeteer-director-to-pursue-smaller-games-next-steer-clear-of/
In a Puppeteer (http://www.joystiq.com/game/puppeteer) postmortem peppered with prickly punditry, Sony Computer Entertainment's Gavin Moore gave attendees of the Game Developers Conference (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/gdc-2014) a small idea of what he and his team hope to craft next. Coming offPuppeteer, a dark and clever PlayStation 3 platformer carved from the world of theater, Moore intends to pitch and pursue three to four smaller games beyond the borders of retail stores.
"I think we're too reliant on stores to sell our products for us," Moore said. Though Puppeteer failed to find a large audience – "not a disaster by any way," he added – it seems to have spurred a serious rethink of retail, marketing and the backbreaking work of creating a unique and polished game. Moore intends to "make three or four products at once, and put them up on the net somewhere for people to download.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/21/puppeteer-director-to-pursue-smaller-games-next-steer-clear-of/