Boston-Area Firms Combine Tech, Film And Video Games
What if the imagination of a video game developer became the seed bed for a crop of Hollywood epics and TV series? And what if movie and TV directors left the backlot to build video games?
Massachusetts companies are betting these developments are around the corner. Between film production and video game development lies fertile ground for New England’s peculiar blend of expertise in graphics software and large data problems.
“The industries are definitely converging,” said Brett Close, president and CEO of Maynard-based 38 Studios LLC, which he hopes can turn the typical model on its head, by spinning film and book franchises out of video game characters and stories. That’s been done before, but Close plans to do it better.
He talked about the emotional impact of the first few minutes of the Star Trek feature film released last month, where a ship’s captain sacrifices himself to save his crew and his family. “A lot of people don’t understand that’s possible in video games,” he said. “You imagine those kinds of sequences; by the way, you can embed them in video games.” Read full article.
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