Schilling: Giving Up on Kingdoms of Amalur Was Not an Option
Also, video games are good!?
Curt Schilling, former baseball star-turned-video game exec, has told of his "education" in the industry since starting work on debut game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
Despite having the assistance of Elder Scrolls legend Ken Rolston, fantasy author R.A. Salvatore and comic book creator Todd McFarlane, Schilling said that he and his outfit - 38 Studios - have learned a lot from the game's development.
"I've gotten an education in these last five years," he said to the Winnipeg Free Press. "You talk about 'Oh, I want to open a business and I want to make games.' Then you actually do it, it's an entirely different world.
"At some point [however], in my mind, it became too good and too big to walk away from. I had plans around what my initial personal investment was going to be — in time and money. That changed over time, because I knew we were doing something uniquely different... Walking away became not an option. Like everything else, we went all in."
He also spent a bit of time advocating the benefits of video games. Ban this sick filth!
"I think if you can't get on the Internet and download a song from iTunes and a movie from Netflix and search Wikipedia, I think that makes you a geek and a nerd nowadays. ... This is a connected generation. The new street corner is Facebook and that's where kids hang out," he added.
"As a parent, it behooves you to be involved in your kids' social life as best as you can to know what they're doing, what they're saying and who they're hanging out with. We're in a different age and gaming has always been an incredibly positive influence on my family."
Curt Schilling. What a guy.
Despite having the assistance of Elder Scrolls legend Ken Rolston, fantasy author R.A. Salvatore and comic book creator Todd McFarlane, Schilling said that he and his outfit - 38 Studios - have learned a lot from the game's development.
"I've gotten an education in these last five years," he said to the Winnipeg Free Press. "You talk about 'Oh, I want to open a business and I want to make games.' Then you actually do it, it's an entirely different world.
"At some point [however], in my mind, it became too good and too big to walk away from. I had plans around what my initial personal investment was going to be — in time and money. That changed over time, because I knew we were doing something uniquely different... Walking away became not an option. Like everything else, we went all in."
He also spent a bit of time advocating the benefits of video games. Ban this sick filth!
"I think if you can't get on the Internet and download a song from iTunes and a movie from Netflix and search Wikipedia, I think that makes you a geek and a nerd nowadays. ... This is a connected generation. The new street corner is Facebook and that's where kids hang out," he added.
"As a parent, it behooves you to be involved in your kids' social life as best as you can to know what they're doing, what they're saying and who they're hanging out with. We're in a different age and gaming has always been an incredibly positive influence on my family."
Curt Schilling. What a guy.
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