Jaffe: Next Game Mix of "Mistake" and God of War
God of War creator misjudged PS3 audience
"I'd call it a mistake, is what I'd call it", said God of War creator David Jaffe of his PSN game, Calling all Cars, yesterday.
Jaffe was sharing a stage with David Crane, director of AppStar, for a discussion of casual gaming at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas. Expanding on the problem with Calling all Cars, Jaffe went on, "We made a rookie mistake as a new studio doing smaller games. We had a casual theme with a hardcore mechanic on a machine people had paid $500 for. Nothing matched up. If I were going to go back and remake Calling All Cars I would’ve skinned it different."
He added that, “There was this misperception and incorrectness on my part, that you buy this $599 system and bring the same mentality to a $5 game as a $60 game, and that was a mistake”.
Still, onwards and upwards. Jaffe hinted that his next game is "in between God of War and Calling all Cars." A bit like Castle Crashers, maybe?
More over on Gamasutra.
Jaffe was sharing a stage with David Crane, director of AppStar, for a discussion of casual gaming at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas. Expanding on the problem with Calling all Cars, Jaffe went on, "We made a rookie mistake as a new studio doing smaller games. We had a casual theme with a hardcore mechanic on a machine people had paid $500 for. Nothing matched up. If I were going to go back and remake Calling All Cars I would’ve skinned it different."
He added that, “There was this misperception and incorrectness on my part, that you buy this $599 system and bring the same mentality to a $5 game as a $60 game, and that was a mistake”.
Still, onwards and upwards. Jaffe hinted that his next game is "in between God of War and Calling all Cars." A bit like Castle Crashers, maybe?
More over on Gamasutra.
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headcasephil 18 Feb 2010 15:24
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Calling all Cars was and still is fantastic it was not a mistake its the game that's played when the family's around after all ways make a giggle or two happen iv played most games from the ps store and calling all cars is in my top 5