Telltale Games is wereldberoemd geworden met hun game over The Walking Dead. Nu is ook hun Game of Thrones game een ongelooflijk succes geworden.
Nu heeft Telltale Games in een interview met The Hollywood Reporter aangegeven dat een tweede seizoen eraan komt. Op de vraag hoe ver ze zijn met seizoen 2, antwoordde Telltale Games:
“While we cannot divulge any of the specific details, we can say that Telltale’s approach to game development is much more like television than most other game developers. Across all of our series — The Walking Dead, Minecraft: Story Mode and more — the development process at Telltale spends a significant amount of time upfront in the writer’s rooms not just with writers, but designers, directors and creative input from all across the studio. It’s not unusual for our games to exist longer on whiteboards and sticky notes and in scripts than they do in traditional game production. It’s incredibly similar to how TV often spends so much time in preproduction and planning before moving into actually shooting. It’s from then on that we take the live development aspect into play, observing the audience and their feedback as we adjust and build upon the experience along the way.
I’d say that’s been a defining approach here at Telltale over the last 10 years, as we’ve always envisioned our games as more in line with interactive drama and playable cinema than what most might traditionally think of as “games.” So while we cannot say exactly how far along season two is right now, we can say that there’s never a shortage of sticky notes on the walls around the studio.”
Dit is zeker een interessante mindset voor een gamestudio en hoogst waarschijnlijk is dit wat bijdraagt aan het succes van onder andere hun Game of Thrones game. Voor nu moeten we maar wachten op het tweede seizoen.
