Andrew brings up a good point -- he's really woken me up to the inventiveness of storytelling in IF. Emily Short's column for GameSetWatch covers narrative in off-the-beaten-path games including IF which makes sense, given that she works in the form. http://www.gamesetwatch.com/column homer in silicon/
@Robert Allen, Well, since Edery thinks Valve is an Engineering company, I doubt he'd argue that it implies poor management. Without putting words into David's mouth, the point of the talk, I think, was largely to suggest that Commitment companies are a viable and in fact positive choice. But that ...
I didn't leave out any discussion of games -- he mentioned POP1 a lot, POP2 a little, POP3D in passing, and Sands of Time extensively. I think the primary reason is that SOT is the game that was used as the basis of the Hollywood film deal. The other games ...
