Before GDC we had some amazing people stop by the studio - the Shadow of the Colossus team! I got up to get something to drink and all of a sudden saw 20 Japanese people in the kitchen. I said good morning to one of them in Japanese and all of a sudden they thought I spoke Japanese and started speaking back. My bad. I quickly said I don't speak Japanese (muri!) and went back to my desk. Later on in the day, Cory Barlog brought over the whole team to check out what we are doing with God of War 2. Figuring I would have a little fun with them - I took a script that we have to scale characters in real time (we used it with the Cerberus puppy transforming into the adult in part 1) and applied it to the skeleton creature. I scaled him 15 times bigger over the course of a few frames. Fumito Ueda asked me what I was doing and I told him we were making our own Shadow of the Colossus. Everyone laughed. It was really amazing to meet all of them and I wish I could have had longer to talk. The translator said how everyone was a big fan of God of War and I told him that all of us were big fans of Ico/SotC also and asked if I could take some pics:


Don't hate on american cell phone quality.
Anyways...There was a lot of cool stuff regarding God of War at GDC this year. Part 2 got announced!! If you haven't seen the bootleg video showing the trailer and the crowd reaction, make sure to check it out!
4 comments:
excellent, i loved the fact that you got to chill with the shadows of the colossus team... makes me dream of a collaboration project since they are two of my favorite games.
you need to kick down some more GoW2 info!
Team ICO and SSM would never get along; SSM likes games with good controls...
Roger that, Omar.
However, I'd love to see the programming teams and art teams get together. Perhaps have the SotC team work on the dynamics of the gameplay and SSM work on the timing/implementation.
Aside from that, a joint title effort would be HUGE for marketing. The way you could leverage things with enthusiast and mass market. Geez. Massive or, at the very least, very profitable.
It would be nice to at least see a budding relationship occur (ex. insomniac and naughty dog).
You never know!
cog
Great post thannk you
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