Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Making games from movies

As news is announced that Desperate Housewives will be launched as a video game later this year, Julie Tamaki in the LA Times wonders why the King Kong game has had such disappointing sales.
Part of the reason is...the fundamental difference between movies and games: Games are interactive, movies are passive. Movie-based games that succeed often use the film as a starting point for new stories that cater to the strengths of interactive entertainment.

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