The following is a test of my interviewing skills for a future project I'm doing. It was decided later to post it on the forums for a fascinating inside look at John's perspective of the Flash world. If you have any responses or feedback PLEASE post on my userpage.
Tydus: Congrats on the successful release of Last Stand 2! From the short amount of time I've had with it, it's incredible. But what's next for AG? Are you planning any huge releases?
jmtb02: I'm not sure! I know we have Dark Cut 3 coming up in October.... but I could have sworn we have another big release coming up soon.
jmtb02: Oh yeah, Sonny 2 Tydus: Dark Cut 3? That's actually a really interesting point for me, as a fan of both the series and your work. With the release of Dark Cut 2, people were kind of surprised at how realistic (and downright bloody) it really was. Of course, your response was Light Cut, a game that you either loved or hated depending on your opinions of teddy bears and unicorns. Where will Dark Cut 3 fit in all this, and have you found a happy medium?
jmtb02: Light Cut was an April Fools joke, lol. It was meant to get people riled up about another Dark Cut game.
jmtb02: Dark Cut 3 is going to up the ante in gameplay... the gameplay in #2 fell short and I've wanted to do better.
jmtb02: Graphics will probably be about the same or better. Tydus: When talking about the gameplay in Dark Cut, it's almost inpossible to avoid talking about your similarities with the DS and Wii series, "Trauma Center". A lot of Flash games have taking aspects of, or in some cases, "ripped off" certain console games in recent months. Do you think that it's unfair to judge a game by what it's based off of?
jmtb02: I think it's unfair to make the assumption that all games are based off of something else. Although I do have to admit that Trauma Center was an influence in my decision to make a surgery game, I didn't go and make a surgery game to leech off of Trauma Center... I Definitely wanted to do something different and new.
Tydus: One system in particular that's been a victim of this "concept theft" is the Wii. Why do you think it is that the motion sensitive controls lend themselves so easily to spawning Flash counterparts?
jmtb02: I don't think Wii in particular is suffering concept theft. In fact, I can't really say that many developers go out of their way to be "concept thieves." I think developers see dynamics and concepts that are good and try to include them in their own games, but never to make direct copies of these games. Tydus: Thanks, John!
