When I was a boy in the fall I got to watch a process that never failed to fascinate me.
There was an old building in the back of my grandparents lot. The boards were grey with age, twisted and warped so you could see ribbons of daylight from inside.
There was a huge flat table in there, anachronistic in that it was made of steel or something. And rows of shelving for storage.
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When asked in an interview in OPM, “Do you have any advice for aspiring game designers?” Wright answered:
Expose yourself to ideas, subjects, and design approaches from outside the games industry. There’s a world of useful stuff out there for you to discover, and by pulling from outside sources, you’ll contribute to broadening games rather than inbreeding them.
Substitute just about anything for ‘gaming’ in this and it still sounds like good advice to me.
Tonight’s movie selection was 1990’s version of Cyrano de Bergerac starring G�rard Depardieu as Cyrano, the delicious Anne Brochet as Roxane, and Vincent Perez as Christian.
What a great production. Now I’ve got to confess that I never read the original play by Edmond Rostand so I didn’t know the whole story. I knew about Cyrano speaking for Christian to Roxane, whom he loved, and that he had a big nose and all that rot. So the first half of the film was reasonably familiar ground. But the second half (after they go off to war) was all new to me and a wonderful tale.
Well worth watching, if you haven’t seen it.