Elite Beat Agents Devloper (Keiichi Yano) Interview from Gamefest

[disgruntled_jojo]

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

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

[ferricide]

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.

[The Sceneman]

that was a pretty good read

[disgruntled_jojo]

Ferr: Agreed.  I'm guessing a lot of them aren't confident enough with their English to go to many of the western conferences.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

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.