Anders Drachen

As promised, the first question from our #FDG18 #comingshitstorm panel: Won't big data analytics on games move the kinds of games towards the mean? Games that we know will sell get made; new ideas get avoided as there is not data.

CC’ing @CatherineFlick @LiesvR @JoseZagal @benmedler @andersdrachen for responses. Fight!

Is that not already the case with the conservative way games/films are produced nowadays (Call of Duty 1337, GTA 12, ..)? Could more detailed Information (which the term big data suggests) not also lead to new approaches where not whole concepts but smaller parts are reused?

I think we’re often unfair with the innovation that happens in big AAA titles (GTA, Assasin’s creed, CoD, etc). I often see it in “little things”: new subsystems, minigames, etc. Things that would seem like major innovations in small titles...