http://www.simonsmess.com A mess of ideas and things I want to share Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:44:49 +0000 fr hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.simonsmess.com/entrepreneur/future-of-video-games/ http://www.simonsmess.com/entrepreneur/future-of-video-games/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:04:00 +0000 simon http://www.simonsmess.com/simonsmess/?p=25 In a world where EA is king, and others are fighting for the crumbles of the cake, it is nice to see some original moves.
Telltale, the company behind the resurrection of the Sam & Max franchise after a long long time of inactivity, has just secured a $5M funding round to pursue its business.
The originality of this company is that they are not developing big ass games in the traditional way (spend 3 years in full speed development, be one year late, to provide a costly not necessary interesting game), but rather have an agile approach: They sell their games as episodes. This allows them to have quicker turnaround time, to have their customers hold their breath between each episodes release, and of course all of that for the good of the gamers out there.
So I give a big round of applause for this new approach and whish them a very successful list of episodes, specially with the Sam And Max franchise (nostalgy, nostalgy).

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