a 2018 interview<\/a>, Doak complained of this narrow vision among big game publishers about what can be marketed, discouraging developers from taking risks and focusing on what gamers really like. \u201cProbably now I’m more inclined to play indie stuff because \u2013 what I just said about marketing \u2013 that steps outside of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRare had a peculiar culture that allowed such experimenting. To read some development histories of GoldenEye 007<\/em>, it sounds like a group of students were left to muck about and created an amazing game, in part because senior managers were distracted elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt’s telling that Doak praised the comedy movie What We Do in the Shadows <\/em>for following a similar model. \u201cIt’s an example of a small team of people doing something really well because no one’s trying to interfere with it,\u201d he said, laughing.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt’s counter-intuitive to frame the reforming of an old game design studio, itself heavily-inspired by an even older one, as an antidote to dominant monolithic game publishers. But when TimeSplitters <\/em>emerges in several years, it might well prove that the old underdog still has better tricks than its rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week the news snuck out that the classic first-person shooter TimeSplitters is being rebooted. What’s more, the game will be made by a revived Free Radical Design, staffed by two of the original studio’s founders, David Doak and Steve Ellis. The entertainment industry is no stranger to reworking old intellectual property. Some would argue…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5297,"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rightdishonourable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}