Game designer Will Wright, creator of Spore and the Sims series believes that games are not a good medium of which to tell stories.
"Games are not the right medium to tell stories," Will said in a recent interview. "Video games are more about story possibilities."
"This is storytelling," he said. "Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare."
He is currently in development of a TV series called "Bar Karma", where fans went on the website, wrote possible plots for the series and even vote on the music it should have. What would he know if he didn't even write the TV show?
Of all the "Sim" franchises none uses any kind of storyline. Games are meant to let people "create their own stories," Will said. Ok. So Wright likes open-endedness. Is that a word?
Will says he is a fan of Grand Theft Auto, but he skips the missions. "What I enjoy about Grand Theft Auto is kind of going out and creating my own story," he adds.
On the other hand, he doesn't like the Metal Gear Series, because of the lengthy cutscenes.
While he was trying to get TV producers on board, he was not having much luck. "Most of them, basically, kind of laughed me out of the building," he said. Do they know who he is?
He did get the idea sold though. He also says he is trying to find a way to make movies interactive. Yikes.
Link: http://current.com/shows/bar-karma/
Link: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/02/18/will.wright/
