Rock, Paper, Shotgun interview Erik Wolpaw

[Evo]

Rock, Paper, Shotgun have a brilliant interview with the writer of Portal and Psychonauts here where Erik Wolpaw talks about his early days in the game industry, working for Valve, Portal and much more![br]

Also, there is cake. Why?s that?[br]Well, there are lots of message games coming out now. Like they?ve got something really important to get off their chest about the war in Iraq or the player is forced to make some dicey underwater moral choices. Really, just a whole heck of a lot of stuff to think about. With that in mind, at the beginning of the Portal development process, we sat down as a group to decide what philosopher or school of philosophy our game would be based on. That was followed by about fifteen minutes of silence and then someone mentioned that a lot of people like cake.

[br]Fancy some Cake?

 

[Pesmerga]

Hilarious responses.

 

[Laivasse]

Oh man, Tim is great and also everyone else at Double Fine is great, including everyone who was responsible for the f’ing Meat Circus.

Ha, I completed Psychonauts just last night. Glad to see he HATES the F'ing Meat Circus (tm) bit as much as I did. But yeah, great writing.

 

[Asuka]

That was one of the best interviews i have ever read.

 

[jondy]

That was one of the best interviews i have ever read.

quoted for truth and luls

 

[Penguin929]

That was an awesome interview.

 

[Harryz]

That was a blow job worthy interview.

 

[Kadayi]

That is an ass funny interview for sure.

 

[Intamin]

Was the Meat Circus the part where you [just in case:]

Spoiler

climbed the ladder and had to keep from drowning, etc?

 

[Laivasse]

Was the Meat Circus the part where you...

Yep, that's the one. It made me want to post anthrax to my PC.

 

[Asknoone]

Maybe he’d write a Team Fortress jingle or a ballad about something Gabe said about the PS3 or, really, who knows?

 

[Zigrah]

While that last answer was hilarious, he really dodged a major question that made me really curious what they are being secretive about. Great Interview.

 

[UseAbuse]

While that last answer was hilarious, he really dodged a major question that made me really curious what they are being secretive about.

probably Gabe's secret love for the PS3 :naughty:

 

[poullos]

While that last answer was hilarious, he really dodged a major question that made me really curious what they are being secretive about. Great Interview.

The exact same feeling I used to get whenever someone asked Gabe about TF 2; silence.

Valve must be cooking something under the...cake.

P.S: oh boy what a fantastic interview.

 

[Kadayi]

While that last answer was hilarious, he really dodged a major question that made me really curious what they are being secretive about. Great Interview.

Well given they kept TF2 under their hats for so long it's a certainty that they will have been putting their love into something else(CS2 at a guess) beyond just EP3.

 

[Planetary]

dicey underwater moral choices

Hmmm... I wonder what that could mean?

 

[The Mild Gatsby]

It's a reference to Bioshock.

 

[Planetary]

It's a reference to Bioshock.

Sarcasm on the Internet is like extraterrestrial life. Unlikely to ever be proven or disproven, yet many say they've seen it, while many don't believe it exists.

 

[Naurgul]

I read it last night. It was a great interview. The man is clearly crazy, though!

The moral choices part maybe was a reference to all games that are trying to put moral choices, regardless of whether they succeed or not. The man is a writer-comedian and there's nothing inherently funny for him to like in moral choices.

 

[NeoNight]

right ok so when are we getting new portal maps?

 

[Logic]

The cake bit reminds me of "People aren't wearing enough hats", in regards to the meaning of life.