Singapore-MIT Game Lab Interview
Posted by Ray @ 3:29 pmWired’s Chris Kohler has a nice interview up about the Singapore-MIT game lab announced last year. They have an interesting plan - to do research on the creation of videogames, and to pitch it to the videogame community by actually making games, as opposed to releasing an academic research paper.
I doubt, however, that Singapore is the best place to do this sort of thing. Zeng works in the videogame industry, and his opinion of local game developers can be summed up as “individually talented, but with nobody to provide them with vision”.
Without a strong sense of vision, I’m not sure the Singapore chapter of this game lab will be on equal footing with the MIT chapter. I wouldn’t want the local talent to be reduced to highly trained code monkeys, when in fact they are capable of so much more.
I guess we’ll just have to see what kind of games come out of this lab.