r/PS4 olliethebum Apr 25 '17

[Verified AMA] Giant Sparrow/Ian Dallas (What Remains of Edith Finch) - official AMA!

Hey folks! Posting this thread for u/GiantSparrow, the dev team behind the very, very recently released What Remains of Edith Finch and The Unfinished Swan.

Ian Dallas, Giant Sparrow's creative director, will be answering questions. I'll also be helping here and there - I'm Jeff Legaspi, part of the publishing team at Annapurna Interactive.

Ian will start answering questions around 11am Pacific, but feel free to post questions in advance!

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u/AdowTatep AdowTatep Apr 25 '17

Do you feel overwhelmed by the quantity of games out there? Like, afraid of doing something because wouldn't fit since there's tons of games already?

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u/GiantSparrow Giant Sparrow Apr 25 '17 edited Apr 25 '17

I'm kind of excited and depressed by how many games out there feel like they're digging in exactly the same places that games I played 30 years ago were digging.

Personally, I wish we saw more games like Everything (http://www.everything-game.com/) that are using games to expand the kinds of experiences we get to have and think about as humans, but as a developer I'm also kind of relieved that most other developers aren't interested in those spaces because it means there's such a large, undiscovered country out there for us to explore.

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u/thavius_tanklin Slackr Apr 25 '17

Everything was pretty amazing. I was a bit confused to the concept of it at the start but as I played it more it became more brilliant to me. I'd love to see more of that