Walking the Walk
Greg Costikyan, one of the loudest critics of the state of the game industry, has taken his own medicine; quit a steady job as a game-evangelist for Nokia, and founded a company to resuscitate the rapidly fading PC gaming scene.
The scratchware manifesto quoted on the new company’s front page originates from 2000, and is available at the underdogs’ abandonware site. However, it was pretty much nothing but a breath of hot air until this event.
In a year when the charts have been dominated by sequel after sequel, and the news extolling the virtues of yet more photorealistic graphic abilities of the next-gen consoles, it’s a duo of brave men that believe in the power of originality over established IP and the attraction of gameplay over visual wizardry.
I will be keeping an eye out for the company, and not only because Greg is a good and provocative blogger (and do read his two-part article at the Escapist as well).
