{"id":3712,"date":"2017-03-02T21:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/warren-spector-almost-made-an-rts-branded-rpg-instead-of-deus-ex\/"},"modified":"2017-03-02T21:00:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:00:39","slug":"warren-spector-almost-made-an-rts-branded-rpg-instead-of-deus-ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/warren-spector-almost-made-an-rts-branded-rpg-instead-of-deus-ex\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren Spector almost made an RTS-branded RPG instead of Deus Ex"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Warren Spector, sale<\/a> speaking at GDC 2017, order<\/a> talked about rebuking game industry expectations during the creation of Deus Ex<\/em>. (credit: Sam Machkovech)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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SAN FRANCISCO\u2014Cyberpunk RPG Deus Ex<\/em> celebrates its 17th<\/sup> anniversary this year, try<\/a> and original game director Warren Spector took the opportunity to describe\u00a0the classic game’s\u00a0development process at this year’s Game Developers Conference. The rapid-fire talk was light on nitty-gritty details, but in addition to offering a unique version of\u00a0the game’s origin story, Spector explained\u00a0how the game\u00a0was nearly disrupted by work on a branded project\u00a0for another “successful” game series.<\/p>\n

Spector had just finished his work\u00a0on\u00a0Thief: The Dark Project<\/em>\u00a0at Looking Glass Studios Austin, and his goodbye from there was unceremonious: “Looking Glass ran outta money, let’s be frank.” Describing his financial situation as “panhandling” at that point, Spector returned to a game idea he’d pitched to Origin and Electronic Arts years earlier, called Trouble(Shooter)<\/em>. That action-RPG concept would have starred a ’90s-era\u00a0operative, ex-CIA, named Jake Shooter, who\u00a0was now working as a “hard-boiled private eye.” It likely would have shared elements of Deus Ex\u2014<\/em>particularly stealth and “play how you want” elements\u2014that Spector had dreamed of creating\u00a0post-Thief<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“I blew the dust off that Trouble(shooter)<\/em> proposal and convinced a company I won\u2019t name to let me make a RPG in a successful RTS line that I won\u2019t name,” Spector told the crowd. “I was about to sign the contract.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ Warren Spector, sale speaking at GDC 2017, order talked about rebuking game industry expectations during the creation of Deus Ex. (credit: Sam Machkovech) SAN FRANCISCO\u2014Cyberpunk RPG Deus Ex celebrates its 17th anniversary this year, try and original game director Warren Spector took the opportunity to describe\u00a0the classic game’s\u00a0development process at this year’s Game… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t