Remember the guy who said “The way you manufacture a Wii is you take two GameCubes and duct tape. It’s not clear to me that Nintendo gives a sh*t about gaming as an art form“. Yeah, that wasChris Hecker, and he just got laid off from Maxis. Ironic, as he worked on the originalSpore, andSpore: Heroesis just about to make it’s way to the Wii. Maybe Nintendo demanded his head on a stake, to be barbecued atop a pile of burning money, before they would allowSporeto take its place in the Wii’s library? Yeah, probably not.
Even more ironic is the fact that he’s now going indie with a game calledSpyParty; a game that looks like it’s running on twoTurboGrafx-16s scotch-taped together!
HA HA HA! YES! BEST JOKE EVER BLOGGED! YOU’RE WELCOME!
All hilarious comedy aside,the game sounds interesting, and I have to give Hecker credit for going indie in this economy. Still, I’d bet dollars to donuts that he’s looking everywhere for jobs asSpyPartycomes together. I just hope Chris doesn’t plan on going to Nintendo for work. I’ve got a feeling that their inabiliy to “know sh*t about gaming as an art form” just may keep them from appreciating Chris’s body of work.
