Goose book without the title Boss Fight is investigating the Australian development scene

At first glance, the House House 2019 sensation Untitled game It may not seem like the most obvious choice to write a book. Game – basically Hiding game in which your task is to cause problems – He was a viral hit, but he is not filled with extensive knowledge or complex mechanics that are begging to break up within hundreds of pages. So when Boss Fight Books announced Goose bookI was curious what approach he would do.

As it turned out, not only a fascinating behind-the-scene story, but the game was an excellent point of entry into a conversation about the program for House programmers and the wider Australian community of Gie-who fought for the name for years.

As part of the effort to distinguish books and documentary films, Polygon conducts a series of e-mail interviews with people behind them. Check the full list read on Heaven: children of light Book, a Street fighter 2 Document and others. Below, Untitled game The author of the book James O’Connor discusses the Australian game development scene, the strength of coincidences and page 171.

Polygon: on the surface, Untitled game This is a relatively simple game. What inspired you to write about this book?

James O’Connor: The initial spark was more than anything else, I would like to write about the Australian game development scene. I have been a fan of boss books for a long time, and the more books they published, the more I felt as if there was no opportunity, if they did not publish any books about the Australian development of the game – a topic that I knew quite well since my time, working here as a game journalist.

For decades, domestic studies were best known from their work with ports, hand translations and licensed titles-Australian studies were cheap and had a reputation of good work. After the global financial crisis in the 00 of the 20th century, many foreign investments that fueled this work dried up and studies began to flash. What we finished was a wealth of experienced game creators who knew how to work efficiently, who were never able to work on their own original ideas … and then the iPhone and the App Store. In the book I enter it in more detail!

I crashed the book Untitled game For practical reasons – I wanted to write about changes and changes in the local industry in 2010–2019, and Untitled game Terminated this decade perfectly with a huge, strange, funny hit that hit a huge cultural nerve. It is simply an ideal object – a peculiar idea, well realized, a game that everyone immediately recognized the moment when it was announced. I decided that delving into such a game would be interesting and funny. Fortunately, I was right!

What did you learn about the Australian development community while working on a book?

I have been in the Australian Game Development Community for a long time – as a journalist, and then as a programmer’s program – but I was most surprised by how many people from the whole local community cross with history about history Untitled gameDevelopment. Working on this book seemed a bit like I imagine that Stephen King feels when he writes history and finds characters from other books that suddenly pass through the side, except that most of them are in Melbourne, not Maine. Oh, here is the guy with whom I interviewed the magazine ten years ago; Ah, I didn’t know the person who ran this festival, she was friends with the band; Huh, this story has strange similarities to the other story that I have heard. These kinds of things.

I have long used generosity and support, which flows through the local game community of games in all of Australia, so it was nice to share it with readers.

What was the wildest anecdote or behind the scenes of the story you came across when reporting a book?

I will say that this is not necessarily a huge book of “wild anecdotes” because the stories that are really wild here All right Everything went than how bad. There is no scene in the office where the goose is dissolved and causes havoc, or where the publisher arrives for dinner, and four boys in House House must try to hide the ruined roast. Wild anecdotes are more in terms of line The perfect person who helped them in the next part of the development process simply appeared one day.

Perhaps the anecdote, which has stuck me the most since I was writing this book, is the one with which I run – the history of the day when four House House members really strengthened as a band. Like many good stories, it starts with a misunderstanding, it lasts with a coincidence and ends with playing Sportsfriends. It’s so strange Sliding door Moment – I honestly believe Untitled game It would not happen if everything went a bit differently on the day I describe in the introduction. There are several such cases in the whole story and it is interesting to think about it.

What is the best page in the book?

Page 171. Partly because it is exactly at the end, so when someone arrives there, he liked the book to go all the way (I hope). But this site also does something cool that I will not spoil.

I know that I just distinguished the beginning of the book and the end of the book, but I recommend that people read all other pages between them. Trumpet !!