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HERE COMES THE BRIDE.
THE FOURTH FILM BY QUENTIN TARANTINO
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movie. What people want are good things. Quality, I guess.”
Game developing is always a long-slog, but even in a world used to projects taking a consider- able amount of time, Galleon’s six-year gestation period is an epic chunk of time. Gard freely admits that there were points where he doubted that it’d get finished.
“Oh, sure. We’ve been through some very difficult times here, times when we haven’t
when you design it all,” he admits. “I mean the rest of it is really boring, because you’ve just got work and work to do. You’ve got to plough through all of the tasks and achieve all of the aims that you set out and that’s the drudgery of it. The designing part is great and to be honest with you I look forward to getting on with something else.
“It all depends on whether Galleon is successful and
been paid for months on end. It’s been very hard. The publisher who we’re currently with has been going through some tough financial times of its own too and that always causes havoc. That’s one of the reasons why the game has ended up taking so long. We kept losing big chunks of the team because they weren’t get- ting paid regularly.
“Everyone’s always got paid eventually. But it’s very difficult to run a business if you don’t have a consistent cash-flow to make sure that everyone’s wages are paid on time. It’s also very hard to get your development together when people are going in and out of the project and the new people have to learn exactly what the people who’ve left have been doing.
“It’s very crappy that sort of thing. There are definitely a few times when we’ve been up against the wall.”
But Gard and Confounding Factor have pulled through. Galleon’s at the bug-testing stage now and Gard can finally look forward to his baby seeing the light of day. And to beginning work on fresh ideas, perhaps?
“The thing is that the fun part of a project is the first six months,
whether or not it’s something that the publisher would want to franchise.”
And if it isn’t? Well, Gard’s philosophical about the future.
“If Galleon isn’t successful, I’ll just come up with something else,” he smiles. “Design some- thing new...”
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