Posted by Ross

Thu, 5th Apr 2012

Laughing Jackal Q&A part 3

Hi everyone.  Welcome back to the Laughing Jackal Q&A.  We’ve got a couple of new questions this week, both from Ajescent, who wants to know more about our future and our relationship with Sony. Before I get onto that, I’m relieved to be able to tell you that Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s Fighting Fantasy: Talisman of  Death can now be downloaded from the Vita store :)  We’re still waiting for Duael Invaders and Hungry Giraffe, but everything else should be available on there now. 

Now, onto the questions:

In an ideal world, where do you guys see the LJ name in 10 years time? Is it still making Minis and PSNs, or full blown AAAs?

Well, 10 years is a very long time in gaming and an awful lot can change in that period. I mean, if you look back where gaming was 10 years ago the Xbox had only just launched, online hadn’t really taken off on consoles yet and the only game I’d played on my phone was Snake, and all that’s ignoring trends in AAA gaming.

In 10 years time I’d hope we would be stretching ourselves with more ambitious games, although I’d hope we’d still be flexible enough that the scale of each game would be no smaller or larger than the concept demanded. While I wouldn’t ever want to rule out boxed games (and there is something very cool about walking into a shop and seeing a game you’ve been involved in on the shelves), digital is going to be the way to go long term.

While it’s not a very complete answer I’d basically hope we’d still be working on great games and whichever format it’s on is of secondary concern.

What exactly is the relationship between LJ and Sony? Is it 1st party, or will we see LJ games on other platforms?

While we’re not a first party publisher we have a very good working relationship with Sony and we enjoy creating games for their platforms. We’ve also received a lot of support from Sony with banners on the PSN store and have regularly been included in the PSN + programme, which gets our games in front of a huge number of people.  Having said all that, we are platform agnostic and we’re planning on releasing some of our Minis on iPhone in the near future. :)

Anyway, that’s all for now. I’ll be back next week, so while you wait why not go and download the Fighting Fantasy games onto your Vita and then join us on our Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google+  pages?

Happy Easter everyone. :)