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Please, tell me a story…
During the new academic year inauguration day at Vigamus Academy in Rome, David Bowman – vice president at Telltale Games – held a special lesson about american history in gaming and how the industry is focused on telling stories, with graphic adventures becoming more and more popular – as happened with The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones or The Wolf Among Us.
Our Andrea D’amely took the chance to ask some questions about Nintendo and Bowman kindly answerd to them.
NintendOn: During the lesson you talked about Telltale history and the many collaborations had with partners in the industry: can you tell us how do you fell about Nintendo and the Switch?
David Bowman: I think the platform is wonderful: anything that allows people to have mobility and flexibility in how they play and where they play – I’m all in favor of that. This is a really cool and accessible piece of hardware, that allows people to play the way they wanna play, so developing for it makes perfect sense for telltale games. We have projects heading towards it right now – we’re taking our back catalogue right now, individually one by one moving it over. As long as our memory profiler works on it, we’re going to port it over and make it ready to play.
NintendOn: Can you tell us which game are going to be released on Nintendo Switch? We’ll be able to play The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones o Guardian of the Galaxy in the near future?
David Bowman: That is one of ur goals – the reason I can’t answer easily is because we have only so many people in the building and every time we want to take some of our catalogue and move it to a new platform that takes a period of time. We’ve done the technology portion of it and now this takes to the production people, the people who that have to rearrange content to make sure it works well on the platform… they are working now – that is happening at the same time we’re continuing to make our traditional games in our traditional platforms. So is a matter of time: we believe in the platform, we think it’s good and it makes financial sense for us to do it.
NintendOn: That looks like a full support from Telltale, but are we going to see an exclusive game for Nintendo Switch?
David Bowman: We don’t do exclusive content specificly for a platform because we want as many people in the world in whatever way they want to – to experience our stories
we do think that Nintendo has a platform that is a great way to experience content and it really fits our narrative games, is a really good fit.But we won’t make an exclusive – unless Nintendo wants to come to us and talk business, you know, that a whole different story of course. We love Nintendo, every gamer loves Nintendo.
We’d like to thank David Bowman for the interview,
as well as Link Campus / Vigamus Academy for the opportunity