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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: disgruntled_jojo on September 14, 2007, 09:08:39 PM

Title: Elite Beat Agents Devloper (Keiichi Yano) Interview from Gamefest
Post by: disgruntled_jojo on September 14, 2007, 09:08:39 PM
Didn't see any one else posting about it, and it's definitely an interesting read:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1884/feeling_the_elite_beat_keiichi_.php (http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1884/feeling_the_elite_beat_keiichi_.php)

So, the obvious question is, why are you at Gamefest?

Keiichi Yano: That's probably the biggest question I can't answer, but I guess there is an obvious answer, and a not-so-obvious answer. We've always been Xbox developers. A lot of people don't know this, but we've been doing graphics engines and game engines on 360 for awhile now.

0_o
Title: Re: Elite Beat Agents Devloper (Keiichi Yano) Interview from Gamefest
Post by: ferricide on September 15, 2007, 06:06:31 AM
thanks. it was nice to track someone interesting down at gamefest. not too many japanese developers sadly. they need to get on the tech train pronto.
Title: Re: Elite Beat Agents Devloper (Keiichi Yano) Interview from Gamefest
Post by: The Sceneman on September 15, 2007, 08:21:58 PM
that was a pretty good read
Title: Re: Elite Beat Agents Devloper (Keiichi Yano) Interview from Gamefest
Post by: disgruntled_jojo on September 17, 2007, 05:31:03 PM
Ferr: Agreed.  I'm guessing a lot of them aren't confident enough with their English to go to many of the western conferences.
Title: Re: Elite Beat Agents Devloper (Keiichi Yano) Interview from Gamefest
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on September 17, 2007, 05:36:48 PM
he mentioned something I'd heard from the Japanese side, before; namely, Unreal 3 development is horrid because the documentation is scanty and unless you have a super brilliant programmer who ALSO speaks English you are going to miss out on 3/4 the information available to you.

I'm sure Epic outsourced their tech docs once 15 months ago and called it a day for Japan.