Det blev for nylig afsløret, at Troy Baker - en af de sande konger inden for stemmeskuespil i videospil - har tænkt sig at fordybe sig yderligere i det medie, han elsker, ved at træde direkte ind i spiludviklingssektoren. Idéen er at overføre hans mangeårige erfaring fra branchen og samarbejdet med et bredt udvalg af anerkendte studier til et nyt selskab, der tager det bedste fra dem alle for at skabe en stærk formel for fremtiden.
Selvom Bakers planer stadig er i de tidlige stadier, fik vi chancen for at tale med manden bag Indiana Jones, gnaver-detektiven Jack Pepper (fra det nyligt udgivne hit Mouse: P.I. For Hire) og Higgs fra Death Stranding under Comicon i Napoli. Her spurgte vi ind til, hvad han håber at opnå som udvikler, og hvordan det at færdiggøre et spil stadig føles som et moderne mirakel.
"Any game that ships is a miracle. By the laws of fate, it is doomed to fail and if you don't do that, then you somehow escape the orbit of at least mediocrity. You're crazy to do this. It's insane what we do. I don't think it's a problem to solve, though. I think it's in the sense of trying to get the waves to calm down. You're swimming in the ocean, but I've just continued to swim further and further away from shore. So, I've been doing that from day one. So, I'm going to continue to see how far out I can get. Fortunately, I've learned from literally the best in the industry and I think that it's easy in this industry to stay very siloed between your studio. If I can in any way pass on the lineage of some really great lessons onto a new studio, that go, this is the way that Naughty Dog did this. This is the way that MachineGames did this. To be able to create an amalgamation of those, I think, is a wonderful challenge. So, yeah, I'm here to tell as many stories as I can, like [Austin Wintory], we'll both drop dead doing it."
Du kan se hele interviewet med Baker herunder, hvor også den ekstraordinære komponist Austin Wintory er med for at diskutere AI, deres fremtidige projekter og meget mere.
Med succesen fra Mouse: P.I. For Hire, der netop har rundet 730.000 solgte eksemplarer siden lanceringen i april, virker det til, at Baker har fundet den helt rette timing til at bringe sit kreative indsyn ind i maskinrummet hos udviklerne.