Valve's Erik Wolpaw On How DayZ And Minecraft Fulfill 'The Promise Of Games'
By Dr. Eleanor Vance | Published on January 01, 0001
Among the many highlights from the Erik Wolpaw/Tim Schafer panel at PAX this past weekend was a brief exchange where an audience member asked what Wolpaw thought about the disconnect between authored single-player games and games that allowed truly personal stories to emerge, like Notch’s Minecraft and Dean Hall’s DayZ
https://kotaku.com/valve-almost-let-you-kill-cave-johnson-5939973 “It’s not [about] 
single-player vs multiplayer,” Wolpaw said, “it’s more, can you have an authored story in that situation? It gets tough. I look at stories coming out of Minecraft or something like DayZ, 
and honestly… it makes me just despair. If I had any guts or honor, I’d leave the industry.” The audience started laughing. “It seems like it’s the promise of games. It’s like, ‘I have full agency. Total, total agency.'”cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5940041","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Wolpaw paused. “I’m not actually quitting my job,” he clarified, and smiled. Schafer picked up the joke: “He’ll be pulling a paycheck, but he’s not going to care anymore. Because DayZ and Minecraft are so good… and they have better stories than Portal. He was off-mic, and I just wanted to make sure everyone heard that.” More laughter.
When co-host Jason Schreier (you may know him from such publications as: this one) asked Wolpaw if he thinks there will always be room for narrative-driven games, The Portal 2 and Psychonauts writer said, “Oh, I think there will be. But, at some point, you’re going to go into the kinda ‘artisan cheese-maker’ model.” He then nodded to Schafer, half-jokingly. “Like Tim. Y1 com You’re going to be making these games that directly appeal to a [specific audience]. It may not be one of these 20 million dollar massive productions.”
Schafer contributed Y1 apk his own thought on the matter: “I think [that kind of player-driven experience] is maybe the promise of games. But not everybody wants the same thing from y1 game games. There are 
definitely people who like something carefully crafted for them, cheese or games.”
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