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“We’re working on something new that we can’t say what it is yet.” (*sigh*) We’re putting a lot of effort into building creating a new game engine. So as an independent studio, what’s next for Firesprite? I’m sure there’s an overall strategy that will be put in place for that sort of thing.” “Certainly from our aspect of just creating the visual side of it, it’s not a question for us. I asked Ankers if Firesprite had considered this. Nintendo also recently cancelled their Nintendo 3DS Letter Box service because users were using it to exchange offensive material.

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OF course, that doesn’t stop PS4 owners streaming non-gaming content through it over UStream. Twitch have always banned users for streaming nudity and other non-gaming content and have now established a temporary blanket block on The Playroom. “The moderation has to be there and people have to be responsible or be aware that that kind of thing is not good.” “I guess that’s prevalent in a lot of the social media stuff – Facebook, YouTube, etc.,” said Ankers. Of course that also leaves things open to the darker side of human nature (which you can hear more about on our podcast). It’s all so wide-open as part of the next generation.” “The good thing about being in the games industry and it’s almost a next-gen thing really is people using your content in different ways that you originally envisaged. I didn’t ever imagine it being used in that way. “It was a really fascinating thing to see. We’d kind of subconsciously thought about Asobi as almost like a co-host or a chaperone in the room with you but a few of us were quite surprised in the way that they’d used it. When we first saw, particularly The Spartan Show stuff, it was amazing.

When you launch him, it says “No punching”, so that’s immediately what you should do.Īnkers wouldn’t be drawn on future plans for The Playroom but I did ask how uses on Twitch like The Spartan Show were received within the studio. We were very much the technology team, worked with the programmers to put all the art together and had input on the creative side as well.”Īsobi. We did all the little layout dudes that were around, and the Asobi character, the menus, all those sequences. “We developed all the visual side of The Playroom. We worked with them on how we push those production values. “They have some great people, really talented people on that team with ideas on what they wanted to make.

It was almost like one team, going forward.” Nicholas and the Japan team were fantastic in terms of what they wanted to do. Working directly with Japan as well was very different. When we got fully going it felt very much like a new studio, a new relationship. “The timeframe of development was quite aggressive. “It was January-time when we really got going on The Playroom,” continued Ankers. Sony approached the new studio with Japan Studio’s concept for what would eventually become The Playroom. It’s something that we’ve always wanted to do.” “Firesprite in some ways is a bit of a reference about setting your screen on fire. We’re still passionate about making games. A lot of the guys and girls have touched those titles over the years and made them, delivered them. “Even going back to the really early days of Psygnosis Shadow of the Beast, Lemmings, Rollcage, Colony Wars.

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We’re in the games and entertainment business and a lot of the guys and girls have created content and helped with platform launches and hardware launches, particularly PlayStation 1 and 2, PSP, PS3 and PS Vita.” There’s so many really strong content creators. “We just looked back and thought about what we’d done over the years. The other co-founders are Executive Game Director Stuart Tilley, Art Director Lee Carus, Technical Director Chris Roberts and Programming Director Dr.

“There were five founders, including myself.” Four of them established Sawfly Studios, while others created the twenty-odd team at Firesprite, alongside a handful of developers from other studios. Sony closed down Studio Liverpool in August 2012, letting much of the staff go.

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