{"id":49,"date":"2006-02-07T18:28:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T22:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rakkar.org\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2006-02-07T18:28:27","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T22:28:27","slug":"true-convergence-of-games-and-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/02\/07\/true-convergence-of-games-and-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"True convergence of games and movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI have a premonition that the convergence of games and movies is going to be more real than people think.<\/p>\n

Consider these points:<\/p>\n

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  1. Budgets and graphical realism for games keep increasing.<\/li>\n
  2. Hollywood is increasingly adverse to investment risks<\/li>\n
  3. Game and movie tie-ins are increasing, with many major movies being released at the same time as the game.<\/li>\n
  4. Computer animated movies are increasingly popular and make a lot of money<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Right now it costs $30-$50 million for an AAA game and from $50 to $200 million for a movie. Lets say 10 years from now games are truly photorealistic and cost twice what they do now. What’s the next logical step?<\/p>\n

    Rather than make a game for $100 million and a movie for $100 million, make a movie using the game’s graphics engine The movie is in fact just the scripted portions of the game tied together.<\/p>\n

    Does this sound reasonable?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have a premonition that the convergence of games and movies is going to be more real than people think. Consider these points: Budgets and graphical realism for games keep increasing. Hollywood is increasingly adverse to investment risks Game and movie tie-ins are increasing, with many major movies being released at the same time as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakkar.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}