Don Daglow: 10 Surprising Ideas On The Future Of Games
By Shawn on Monday, November 12th, 2007 at 6:58 PM PST In Gamer Life, Games Industry, Lord of the Rings
At the 2007 IGDA Leadership Forum, Stormfront Studios (Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Neverwinter Nights) president and CEO Don Daglow lead a discussion aimed at getting developers to look towards the future of making and delivering games called “10 Surprising Ideas for Leaders on the Future of Games.”
Daglow expands upon ten ideas meant to kick start the thought processes including:
- Idea 1: In Games, the Future Will Always Embarrass You
- Idea 2: The Future of Interface is Cultural, Not Intellectual
- Idea 3: How to Become a Futurist
- Idea 4: Who Controls the Future?
- Idea 5: Why are there former game programmers, but not old game programmers?
- Idea 6: In the future, games will do more good
- Idea 7: It isn’t just audiences, it’s architecture
- Idea 8: Xbox Live will be Everything Live
- Idea 9: Conglomerates, Conformists, and Consent
- Idea 10: …For the year 2043
Hopefully the industry will listen to insightful gems such as this:
Daglow stated that developers, publishers, the press, and the retailers do not control the future. “The publisher-developer blame game misses the point,” he said. “Neither of us are in charge. Since we’re polite, we don’t blame each other. We blame retailers and the press — unless they’re around — and it’s not their fault, either. Game players control the future. They decide what’s fun. And when you accept who controls the future, it liberates you to focus on creativity and fun.”
via Gamasutra
Lame
Would you care to elaborate on that statement?
it’s not lame. The way Daglow compiled his list, I can see how some people may not understand it.
nobody ever believed me when I told them I control what video games were made.
did he come up with this stuff as he was speaking it?
its intriging, if somewhat cryptic.
now heres a suggestion for idea 11- get a better idea 10
havoc, it is slightly cryptic.