“games are just websites that are really difficult”

My favourite tweet today was made by @jonassmith saying: ”Overheard at Nordic Game ‘games are just websites that are really difficult’”.
Funny, and as it turns out it seem to have some bearing. I went to the social gaming seminar with the title “Are social games the new black”, which the panel was sure of. There was a discussion that [...]

- Was it good for you too? Talking about quality.

“Public service broadcasters have traditionally been given the responsibility to guide us through big technical changes, but both the broadcasters and the film institutes have missed the train when it comes to cross-media. The independent producers must be given the responsibility to drive this development, and they need new funds to do it.”
This was the [...]

Quantic Dream’s advice when making films out of games and games out of films

Guillaume de Fondaumière of Quantic dream shared some advices to people that are planning to make game/film adaptations.
Pitfalls when films becomes games
The idea to make a game often enters the picture late in the process which make up for impossible time constraint for the game developer. Sometimes movies just aren’t suited for a game because ”there’s [...]

Introducing Nordic Game by Media Evolution

On this site Media Evolutioners together with Petter Palander (@achaido), Helena Collin (@collinskan) and Cecilie Stranger-Thorsen (@cilistranger) will be blogging about what’s happening at the Nordic Game conference. The idea is to put the discussion into a broader media industry context. What’s happening right now in the game industry have implications and provide opportunities far [...]