Utah Game Development Reviving
That's the title of an article in the newspaper today. Part of me thinks it should read, "revival" instead of "reviving," which would call to mind big tent sermons with preachers doing the whole fire-and-brimstone thing, which sure would be awfully exciting. I can just see me jumping up and yelling, "Praise the Lord British!" or "I don't wanna burn in Halo!" or "The Devil May Cry!" or something like that. Maybe it's the whole indie game evangelizing thing.

But I digress.

Anyway, the best part of the article is that - in the print version, at least - it includes the "box-art" for Void War. Anyway, I've got a couple of quotes, got to evangelizing indie / downloadable games a bit ... tag-teaming with Steve Taylor of NinjaBee, apparently, as well as some other local devs / educators. Unfortunately, I'm quoted as saying, "I predict that this (downloadable games) will become very big for the independent developers in the coming years." Taken all by itself sounds a little like me saying, "I predict this Internet thing might become a big deal one day..." I guess it made sense to me when I said it in the context of a the rest of the conversation, as we were discussing the traditional retail model versus downloadable games. But by itself, it's pretty much a pronouncement from the heights of Mount Obvious.

Ah, well. It's a good article. And pretty spot-on. Things were looking grim a few years back for the videogame industry in Utah, and things seem to be going pretty well right now. Will it change? Will the ol' wheel turn again at some point in the future? Quite likely. The industry is pretty cyclic that way.

Anyway, if you want to read the article (sans picture), you can check it out here:

Utah Game Development Reviving

Labels: Biz, Mainstream Games

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