Outsiders in the Entertainment Industry

Speakers: David Braben

Track: Vision

Format: Lecture

Experience Level: All

Description: This talk looks at the changes we all have to address in the next few years: changes to the business model and funding, to how we regard IP, risk, creative credits, how we work as an industry. We need to stop studying our collective navels and realise we are part of a wider entertainment community and work together. We need to do this to become truly part of the 'mass market' rather than nibbling at the edges. It uses "The Outsider" as an example of how we are trying to address each of these issues; funding, risk, creating game and film IP together, creating technology to span multiple games, realising the problems with 'real' people, putting together large, detailed worlds in a cost-effective way. It also touches on the talk "Five years from now," given at GDC 2001--even then we were talking about 'next-gen gaming'--and will follow up with a few suggestions of where we might be five years hence.

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