Interview with Scott Miller (3D Realms)

[Section_Ei8ht]

Found this on digg. A really interesting interview with the CEO of 3d Realms, Scott Miller. He talks about Prey and Duke, but mainly he talks about how hollywood licensing into the gaming industry is bad, and more innovative, first game franchise starters are more important. Now if only we could get more publishers to think like that.

http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=12680

[Minos]

Nice stuff

THR: What about the latest "Duke" game ... the one that seems to be taking forever to build?

Miller: We've put about $7.5 million into that and we've been working on it since late 1998. So it really hasn't been that much of an investment. And once it comes out, if it's as successful as we think it'll be, we'll make that money back in the first day or two of sales.

[Erratic]

I really would have guessed alot more than just a few million. Pretty surprising.

[Polaris]

They should just cancel it, maybe release whatever they already have done for free, then after Prey is done begin work on a new Duke that utilizes whatever engine Prey uses and not call it "Forever".

[KungFuSquirrel]

It's not like 3DR is working on Prey in the first place...

[Polaris]

Well humanhead may be developing it but 3DR is atleast producing it.

[Section_Ei8ht]

Well humanhead may be developing it but 3DR is atleast producing it.

cuz it's so hard to count money these days... :roll:

[LOOM]

isnt duke being developed on the unreal 3 engine?

[csharp]

Nice stuff

Miller: We've put about $7.5 million into that and we've been working on it since late 1998. So it really hasn't been that much of an investment. And once it comes out, if it's as successful as we think it'll be, we'll make that money back in the first day or two of sales.

Strange, i feel like im going to download this

[mikezilla]

I wouldn't trust anything 3dr has to say about how the industry is working with any kind of validity. They've managed to not ship the product they're working on for going on twelve years and every step of the way have been vocal about what everyone else is doing wrong. To call other devs out for using licenses is absolute rubbish. People want to play licenses so people make them, and a lot of times they make them so their company doesn't close.

This is like Paris Hilton giving a homeless guy advice on how to get a job.

[Skjalg]

I couldnt agree more^^

[cdxx]

This is like Paris Hilton giving a homeless guy advice on how to get a job.

lol

[The Postman]

I wouldn't trust anything 3dr has to say about how the industry is working with any kind of validity.

I have the utmost respect for 3DR personally. George Brousard is kind of like the Col. Kurtz of the videogame industry. He does his own thing unbound by publishers or the desires of players for more ported/expanded/licensed cookie-cutter games. I know everyone laughs at Duke's borderline vapor-ware status, but 3DR has also shipped other titles and worked with other companies in the interim and managed to stay a float and stay true to themselves. That's more than can be said for a lot of smaller developers who aim big.

[mabufo]

That may be Mr. Postman sir - but I've yet to see a box with the words 'Duke Nukem: Forever' on it at the local video game shop.

[mabufo]

Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever