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“Hollywood Don’t Understand Games” Says Tigon Studios Head
Tigon studio’s are best known for the Riddick games and other Vin Diesel game Wheelman. Tigon Studio’s head Ian Stevens spoke earlier to GamesIndustry.biz.
Now there’s no denying that video games these days make a lot of money, heck movie studios just want a slice of the cake and the profits … But just because there’s a lot of money to had, it doesn’t mean that Hollywood like it.
“There’s certainly no shortage of guys that look at games and see them as toys, and meaningless bullshit, and now look at revenue – and for their own survival’s sake have to care, and have to get involved,” Tigon Studio head Ian Stevens said.
“I think a lot of it has changed because we’re making so much more money than they are.”
“Oftentimes people in Hollywood struggle to understand the creative decisions that we make – they don’t get why something is more fun than something else, or why a character would need to be changed completely to work as a videogame character,” he said.
“I think that’s probably really hard to get unless you play games. I don’t know there’s an academic way to understand why Mario is fun, or what’s fun about a raid in World of Warcraft, or why it’s cool to shiv people in the neck when you’re playing Dark Athena* – I don’t know there’s an abstract way of explaining that.”
Stevens, however, acknowledged or rather made the stereotype that game developers don’t know how to tell stories; he says there is more “depth and vocabulary involved in film-making that we (developers) are just completely ignorant of.”
“Try as we might, we’re not film-makers – and those are the collaborations that are the most interesting to me, to get some of those people working together to bleed and blend those lines, and get some of the expertise into a game… as opposed to an abstract sharing of ideas, which is what we do.”
To an extent I agree but I think in recent years we’ve seen improvements from both sides, better (not good) tie-in games and far better storytelling in games too but it certainly isn’t wrong to say that both sides have a long way to go but more importantly these improvements are possible.
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