Junction Point Studios’ Warren Spector is already thinking about a third Epic Mickey game.
Spector normally approaches development by considering a trio of titles. When working on a project, he tends to “plan out at least three games” since his “games take about three years to make and I need to make sure I’m willing to put in as many as ten years of my life on something.”
Spector explained:
“I assume every game developer has a process they go through when they start a new project, and mine involves a couple of things.
“One is [that] there are seven questions I ask myself and if I can’t answer them I don’t do it, and that’s posted on my blog if you’re curious. But the other is, I always plan out at least three games.
“I plan out a three-game story arc, and I plan out a three-game, sort of, gameplay arc, what am I going to introduce in each game. I don’t do that because I actually expect to do those games, I do it because my games take about three years to make and I need to make sure I’m willing to put in as many as ten years of my life on something.”
“It’s got to be a compelling enough world and compelling enough characters that I can do that. And so before we started with the first one I had four stories actually. At the high level, sort of thought out, I did this for Deus Ex too. I knew what the first three games were going to be before we started the first one.”
“For example, I knew we were going to do some songs in the second game and I knew we were going to do two player co-op multiplayer, I just knew that before we started the first game. And have an idea that if we’re lucky enough to do a third one what we’re going to do.
“So I already had an idea of what’s the next step, you know, before we started, so I’m always incentivised to do it.”
01./01. [PSP] 2nd Super Robot Wars Z: Saisei-hen
02./02. [3DS] Kingdom Hearts 3D -Dream Drop Distance- #
03./06. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land #
04./03. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2012
05./05. [3DS] Kid Icarus: Uprising
06./08. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G #
07./04. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2012
08./09. [3DS] Mario Kart 7
09./07. [NDS] Pokemon Conquest
10./10. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
11./00. [PSP] Atelier Elkrone: Dear for Otomate #
12./11. [PSP] Black Panther 2: Yakuza Ashura Chapter
13./14. [3DS] Harvest Moon: The Land of Origin
14./16. [WII] Wii Sports Resort with Wii Remote Plus #
15./19. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (PSP the Best)
16./13. [PS3] Devil May Cry HD Collection
17./18. [WII] Mario Kart Wii
18./22. [WII] Wii Party #
19./17. [3DS] Hatsune Miku and Future Stars: Project Mirai #
20./00. [PSP] Armen Noir Portable #
3DS – 63,796
PS3 – 17,765
PSP – 13,166
Vita – 8,250
Wii – 6,837
Xbox 360 – 1,373
PS2 – 1,212
DSi LL – 800
DSi – 633
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
3DS – 72,115
PS3 – 19,370
PSP – 14,804
Vita – 8,931
Wii – 7,099
Xbox 360 – 3,764
PS2 – 1,355
DSi LL – 793
DSi – 743
According to the latest issue of Famitsu, Guild 01 will include a demo for another Level-5 title, Time Travelers. Players will be asked to complete particular conditions in order to unlock the trial. For the time being, those conditions are unclear.
Time Travelers is without a concrete release date. But perhaps the inclusion of a demo in Guild 01 is a sign that we’ll be seeing the final game sooner rather than later.
In North America, 3DS owners can watch “The Rifle’s Spiral” until Apirl 23.
