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alfredofroylan on 13 September 2009

Cand we consider Pilotwings as a "casual title"??

Factor 5 was my most recent place of employment where I was brought on as a Jr. Game Designer. I was working on an unannounced casual title for the Nintendo Wii.

My main duties were to implement missions based on the activities outlined in the design doc. Most of what I did was to create fun missions/activities using object placement. We had "design kits" which were essentially just a group of assets that were made to function with certain mission types. How they were placed throughout the environment determined the experience given to the player. For example, if a mission was to destroy a number of targets I would vary the mission by changing the number, type, and placement of the targets. The missions were designed to be played in 5-15 minute increments and players had a wide variety of activities to choose from.

...

I loved working on this project because it taught me a lot about designing for casual players as opposed to my previous experience designing for the hardcore players.

Mmmhhh that sounds like some of Pilotwings (or the Plane game in WSR) anyway the resume of this guy is quite interesting:

SHIPPED TITLES

-Title Classified- March 2008 to Dec 2008
Developer: Factor 5
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Publisher: Classified
Lead Systems Designer on a casual title for the Wii.

-Title Classified- Aug 2007 to March 2008
Developer: Factor 5
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Publisher: Classified
Lead Designer on a 3rd person shooter featuring ground and arial combat.

http://www.reillygames.com/games.htm

http://drewlanglois.com/resume.html

 



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famousringo on 14 September 2009

I wouldn't be surprised if The Last Story is the new subtitle for Metroid: Other M. Seeing 'Other M' on a store shelf isn't going to excite any game buyers, so you know Nintendo has to come up with something more catchy than that.

Metroid: The Last Story.

...maybe I just have Metroid on the brain.



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Khuutra on 14 September 2009
famousringo said:
I wouldn't be surprised if The Last Story is the new subtitle for Metroid: Other M. Seeing 'Other M' on a store shelf isn't going to excite any game buyers, so you know Nintendo has to come up with something more catchy than that.

Metroid: The Last Story.

...maybe I just have Metroid on the brain.

I do not want that title attached to my Metroid, dammit!

Or my Zelda!



famousringo on 14 September 2009
Khuutra said:
famousringo said:
I wouldn't be surprised if The Last Story is the new subtitle for Metroid: Other M. Seeing 'Other M' on a store shelf isn't going to excite any game buyers, so you know Nintendo has to come up with something more catchy than that.

Metroid: The Last Story.

...maybe I just have Metroid on the brain.

I do not want that title attached to my Metroid, dammit!

Or my Zelda!

Don't be so worried. The Metroid franchise is ripe for prequel mining, and if it's attached to Zelda that just means Link is going to the end of time or Ganon is going to crush everybody's imagination or something.

When Nintendo wants to make a game, they make it. If they don't, then they don't. They're not the kind of company that lets story issues get in the way of a good game (or some reliable game sales).



"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event."  — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
*Image indefinitely borrowed from BrainBoxLtd without his consent.

puffy on 14 September 2009

The Last Story could very well also be a title from Project Sora. Just throwing that out there :P

I do think it's interesting that Nintendo DID actually have Factor 5 working on something, seems like it was cancelled or shelved though.. I hope we see something from Factor 5 soon..



 

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ClaudeLv250 on 14 September 2009
famousringo said:
Khuutra said:
famousringo said:
I wouldn't be surprised if The Last Story is the new subtitle for Metroid: Other M. Seeing 'Other M' on a store shelf isn't going to excite any game buyers, so you know Nintendo has to come up with something more catchy than that.

Metroid: The Last Story.

...maybe I just have Metroid on the brain.

I do not want that title attached to my Metroid, dammit!

Or my Zelda!

Don't be so worried. The Metroid franchise is ripe for prequel mining, and if it's attached to Zelda that just means Link is going to the end of time or Ganon is going to crush everybody's imagination or something.

When Nintendo wants to make a game, they make it. If they don't, then they don't. They're not the kind of company that lets story issues get in the way of a good game (or some reliable game sales).

Other M is already a prequel.

"Now presenting Metroid: The Last Story...followed shortly in chronology by Metroid 4!"



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woopah on 14 September 2009

theres 4 games inbetween metroid 1 and metroid 2. metroid the last story could be the first game chronologically for all we know :P

factor 5 situation is crazy. so many leaks but no official information. i just want someone to tell me whats going on!



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