Comments on: New Introversion Game?

By: KindredPhantom

KindredPhantom — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:35:53 +0000

I am intrigued by this.

By: Seb Potter

Seb Potter — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:51:19 +0000

Worth remembering that as a TV commission “developing” means “working on ideas for” and not producing anything tangible.

Fear not though, one of the people behind this at C4 is the fantastic Alice Taylor, and she provides more information about what they’re up to on her blog http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2008/07/introversion-ch.html

By: WillyCoyote

WillyCoyote — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:12:29 +0000

Google says Chris Hastings has two optioned feature films and a third, Reflex Action filming in the US next year. That sounds like an action movie – which suggests this could be a FPS? An FPS crossed with Time Team. Great, we get the chance to shoot the hell out of Tony Robinson!

By: Rook

Rook — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:10:44 +0000

Chris Hastings wrote the scripts for a couple of short films, one of which apparently won some sort of award. So I don’t think there’s anything special going on there except that he’s a guy that can write scripts.

By: phuzz

phuzz — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:49:01 +0000

Are Channel 4 going to be filming anything as well? I can imagine a C4 program about life inside Introversion would be interesting to more than just the gamer community.

By: caramelcarrot

caramelcarrot — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:01:25 +0000

Betting on Time Team game.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:19:25 +0000

This is similar to the UK government’s/Ofcom’s PPI (?) scheme that was intended to help fund game development, out of the TV license fee. It was scrapped a few months back I think as nobody could quite see how it would work.

By: BillyBob

BillyBob — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:33:27 +0000

The site for Chris Hastings seems to be a feature film production company which makes sense of the Channel 4 link. Are we seeing Introversion diversifying down the MGS route?!?!

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:24:34 +0000

It’s interesting that C4 have pulled out of film production but are apparently expanding into games.

By: Biggles

Biggles — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:12:06 +0000

Channel 4 funding indie games? That can only be a good thing, especially if they’re going out and funding pre production/experimentation phases. From my understanding that sort of thing is quite typical in tv, but games devs are usually expected to self fund their demos (which is a stupid publishing business model, frankly and needs to grow up!) so any change there is definitely most welcome!

By: Tr00jg

Tr00jg — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:32:00 +0000

Let’s hope subversion is still alive. But this Chronometer has me intrigued.

By: Not-a-Bot

Not-a-Bot — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:14:05 +0000

@freelance police: I meant more in terms of people working on the games rather than money. IV still only has a small number of employees, though they’ve been growing a bit recently (presumably due to this)

I’m pretty sure Subversion is still alive too.