Chris Hecker. Loudmouth. Lunatic. Pithy quote-giver.
In arguably the most talked-about speech of this year’s GDC,
art-school-dropout-turned-programmer Chris Hecker offered some words of advice to Miyamoto and Nintendo: “Make a console that doesn’t suck ass.”
He also chastized Nintendo for not treating games as an art form. Ooh, it burns!
I think this is a good time to take a look at Chris Hecker’s
background, and why he might think that casual profanity and semi-ironic art
posturing would make for a good game industry address. Is Hecker just mad
because he realized that his forthcoming AI-heavy evolution title Spore is too
demanding to run on the somewhat simple, but overwhelmingly popular Wii?
Or was this just an a publicity stunt to draw attention to Spore, as well as Hecker's pet cause of game industry unionization? Either way, it worked.
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