LucasArts games and movies: Convergence..

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http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/mar2006/id20060327_719255.htm

The tech convergence has George Lucas’s gaming and movie divisions working hand-in-glove. R&D honcho Steve Sullivan and project lead Chris Williams explain how it’s working

The ultimate goal is to boost collaboration between Industrial Light & Magic, the vaunted effects shop and biggest Lucasfilm unit, and its smaller game division, LucasArts.

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ILM is legendary in the special effects field and this sounds convergence sounds interesting. Its about time they took advantage of what exists within LucasArts..

 

[Bobbler]

God, this just reminded me how badly I miss old school LucasArts... back when every game they made was gold.

Neat, if not expected, though.

 

[Sonic]

Grim Fandango.......such a great game.

On top of that Lucas Arts was one of those companies that we could always rely on for a great game.

ILM is pretty important in the VFX community. I would like to see what comes of this. Even at this point in time there is still a very different set of needs when it comes to assets for movies and games.

 

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Yeah, LucasArts older games.. amazing stuff..
Monkey island, Grim Fandango, Full throttle, day of the tentacle, The Dig, Indiana jones and the fate of atlantis.. to name a few... pure gaming blizz..

 

[swaaye]

I forsee them continuing to make crap games. They've lost all their '90s talent.

 

[swaaye]

I forsee them continuing to make crap games. They've lost all their '90s talent. And working with a visual effects studio isn't going to bring in talented story tellers or programming wizards I imagine.

Hell they don't even make their own games. They hire 3rd party devs for almost everything.