The Movies Interview

Shacknews has posted an interesting interview with The Movies (developed by Lionhead Studios) associate producer Brynley Gibson about the upcoming movie making sim.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

Shack: From what I’ve seen the of the filmmaking tool, it’s a very robust engine. What went into that aspect?

Brynley Gibson: Well, it’s a big part of the game, and a lot of development did go into making that part of the game. Firstly, we have the scenes that make up the films, and we went with quite a realistic animation style. It’s much more realistic than the animation you’ll see in the studio lot, which is much more stylized, a bit more over the top. We created a scripting tool which uses flow charts to build a scene, so rather than having to code scripting for it we use these flowcharts so it’s a very quick and simple tool to build scenes quickly. As a result we have thousands upon thousands of scenes now across forty or so sets.

The full article can be found at this link.

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