From Bedrooms to Billions

[PaulEMoz]

Yeah, if it's done well it'll be a superb watch. Let's hope so!

[OX mkII]

From Bedrooms to Bloody hell is this thing ever going to be released?

[bcass]

Having looked at the interview previews on their youtube channel, it looks like they're doing a great job, with a huge number of interesting interviewees, many of whome have never been seen or heard in such a public way before, so why rush it? This is the first time this sort of thing has ever been done seriously from a UK perspective, and represents quite an ambitious project, so isn't it worth doing properly?

[OX mkII]

Having looked at the interview previews on their youtube channel, it looks like they're doing a great job, with a huge number of interesting interviewees, many of whome have never been seen or heard in such a public way before, so why rush it? This is the first time this sort of thing has ever been done seriously from a UK perspective, and represents quite an ambitious project, so isn't it worth doing properly?

Well, yes but I'm bloody impatient and the release date keeps getting knocked back.

[merman]

They just recovered from a major computer failure and are doing more interviews.

[Jimaroid]

Shoddy backups eh?

[gravy]

Definitely be up for buying it when it comes out.

If there's another fund raising round though it's going to hard to maintain some enthusiasm for the project so I hope they don't go that route.

[PaulEMoz]

They just recovered from a major computer failure and are doing more interviews.

I understand the need to be thorough... my intention is to interview as many as possible for my book project, for instance. But I really can't see how they can do justice to all the people they're talking to within the running time of a film, possibly even in the special edition. You would think there will be a lot of footage left on the cutting room floor.

Still looking forward to it though.

[OX mkII]

They just recovered from a major computer failure and are doing more interviews.

I understand the need to be thorough... my intention is to interview as many as possible for my book project, for instance. But I really can't see how they can do justice to all the people they're talking to within the running time of a film, possibly even in the special edition. You would think there will be a lot of footage left on the cutting room floor.

Still looking forward to it though.

I hope it's not just a case of several people covering much the same ground from their own viewpoint as that's going to get stale pretty quickly, also I hope it has sequences where several interviewees can interact as groups or even have ex gaming journalist interviewers as I think it would bring out something special rather than just a load of one to ones with an interviewer that we don't know.

[llamaprotector]

The youtube videos are uploads of parts that are not going to be in the released documentary no?

Anyway whatever they produce it's better than the current situation where nothing covers this at all. The segment with Iain Lee and Matthew Smith talking about Manic Miner in Thumb Candy was great and I just wish we had more of the same (and a blanket ban on any Mario/Sonic chat).

If you toid a school kid today there was a time you could sit in your bedroom and program a genuine blockbuster game that would top the charts with little more than a £10 reference book and some magazines they wouldn't believe you, but that's how it was (and ditto for British music scene at the same time too around the time of the dawn of the home computing age).

[bcass]

The youtube videos are uploads of parts that are not going to be in the released documentary no?

Doesn't really make any difference. They indicate that they've chosen the right people to interview and that the interviews are interesting.

[venusian]

I really can't see how they can do justice to all the people they're talking to within the running time of a film, possibly even in the special edition.

Presumably their intention is to tell a story. You don't need every little detail to do that; it's the job of the film-makers to stitch the material together so that it communicates their message without just doing an information dump.

If there's an appetite for every little detail then perhaps somebody should put together a book?

[gravy]

That's an argument for needing less people rather than more in your interview pool and part of the art of making documentaries.

Great documentaries do have a narrative and a story, you just can't make an easily understandable and engaging story if you've tens of characters in it.

[mamemeister]

Definitely be up for buying it when it comes out.

If there's another fund raising round though it's going to hard to maintain some enthusiasm for the project so I hope they don't go that route.

Please tell me you're getting a freebie Gaz, surely?

[gravy]

Nah of course not and that's not an issue at all Really happy to support this kind of thing