thread: 2008-10-24 : Me and Robin Laws talk about writing
On 2008-10-31, Valamir wrote:
I dig Robin Laws.
I'll dig him more when he actually publishes a game of his own independently.
I like pretty much everything he's done, but can't think of a single game with his name on the cover that I would consider to be more than 80% finished. But its finished enough for the publisher to go to print with so that's that. Rune, Dying Earth, Hero Wars...I weep when I think how good those games could have been if they'd actually been fully polished and baked.
I don't know whether its the publisher's interferring, the traditional publishing model just not allowing enough time to get it right, or freelancers not having a vested stake in making what they write any better than "good enough"...but I like to think that if he were to publish something on his own...without the interference of publishers, or the time constraints of a release cycle; something that was completely his...I'd be blown away by the awesome. Until then...I find his thoughts only partially relevant to me, and how I perceive design.
