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SiN Episodes Canned? - briefly
(hx) 11:43 PM CET - Jan,28 2007 - Post a comment / read (4)
Ritual's new owner Mumbo Jumbo has said that action games will not be the studio's primary focus from now on, casting doubt on the future of SiN Episode: "The idea of acquiring Ritual was to have them strengthen our development in the casual genre and not to have them involved at all in the action style games. If there's an opportunity to have them do something on the SiN episodes, we would look at that, but that will not be the focus of the company. The combined companies will focus exclusively on casual [games], unless opportunities present themselves that we think are strategic from a business standpoint... Again, I wouldn't close the door on [traditional games] but that's not the primary focus." MumboJumbo CEO Mark Cottam has also confirmed that the deal is effective immediately and Ritual is already at work on a series of titles for MumboJumbo.

If you're like most hardcore gamers, you won't really be familiar with MumboJumbo. You might have played one of their games (like Myth 3), but probably can't remember the name of it. So thankfully GamaSutra comes to the rescue here with a rather thorough interview with MumboJumbo's CEO Mark Cottam, covering pretty much everything there is to know about what the company does and how it operates. Here's a taster:
GS: That was obviously not what we consider a casual game; it's sort of a full-priced, regular game. Is that something you still do, or...?

MC: If you go back to the beginning of the company in 2000, MumboJumbo started as a developer of action, or AAA type, content working for companies like Take-Two. We specifically developed Myth III for Take-Two and they actually published it. We did work also for Electronic Arts and Dreamworks. In 2003 we saw the emergence of the casual game category. We knew we had to develop an expertise in the categroy, even though we didn't understand what exactly made a game "casual." So in the middle of 2003 we converted our development efforts to casual games, and now all of our development resources are committed exclusively to casual games.
last 10 comments:
xxxx(12:15 AM CET - Jan,29 2007 )
Sin is canned. To those around when Sin 1 came out, shouldn't be any surprise to you. The least they could have done was release the MP code and leave it open. But will that happen? wouldn't count on it.

miglaugh(02:02 AM CET - Jan,29 2007 )
What exactly is a casual game?

Is it a game like those childish party games that nintendo peddles on the masses?

Don't get me wrong, they might be fun when you're drunk, or really really bored, but they aren't going to get anybody excited (or at least shouldn't) to shell out some cash.

Eh, good riddance I guess. I was duped into buying that Emergence episode of Sin, and surprise surprise it really sucked. Come to think of it the last game I payed for and liked was HL2. I guess I should go back to getting them the other way.

yhancik(02:43 AM CET - Jan,29 2007 )
same question, what the heck is "casual game" ? any examples ?

and why buy a "regular" studio to develop "casual games" ?.. if it makes sense ?

xxxx(04:08 PM CET - Jan,29 2007 )
It all doesn't make much sense cuz the dudes running Ritual are a bunch of morons to begin with. IMHO. Good riddance. Like I said, release what you have of MP and let the masses finish it since Ritual was obviously too incompetant to do.

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