The video game industry has given us anecdotes of all kinds, and it seems that it will continue in this wake for a long time. These kinds of stories grow in number if we look at companies as powerful as EAwhich now stars in a new curiosity in which the games of The Lord of the rings with installments of the golf saga PGA Tour.
What do these franchises have in common? Glen SchofieldCEO of Striking Distance Studio and director of the recent The Callisto Protocolreveals the relationship between the two sagas in a video that answers questions from various users regarding video games.
“’Man, why don’t the newly founded studios make their own graphics engine? It’s like, man, stop being lazy.’ Wow, okay. Okay, my teams have made many engines and they are difficult. They take years and years, especially nowadays you need to take an old engine and rebuild it. But making an engine from scratch, in today’s market, It’s going to take you years, and millions of dollars, and you’ll still get it wrong..
Around the time I came to EA, they had a bunch of engines there, and we started developing one for Lord of the Rings. And I don’t know, they spent about a year on it. And I said, ‘What are we doing? We are two years away’. So we look and we got creative.
The Lord of the Rings deals with large areas, with a castle at the end, or a fortress. What’s like that? Tiger Woods [PGA Tour]. Long areas and at the end is where you get food, where you finish. So we took the engine from Tiger Woods and we turned it into a Lord of the Rings engine. You just have to be smart in what you do and what you use for an engine.”
The Callisto Protocol, available now
Glen Schofield and Striking Distance Studio have been in the news due to the recent release of The Callisto Protocol, an installment that caught the attention of space horror fans due to its similarities to the iconic Dead Space. At 3DJuegos we are delighted with this title, because, as we have already told you in our analysis of The Callisto ProtocolIt is a sign that a very classic genre is coming back. However, we must also admit that the game is not perfect and makes some decisions that do not just convince us.
