Games industry is shockingly immature says Epic's Mike Capps
Epic president wants to encourage more sharing of experiences between developers
The president of Gears of War developer Mike Capps reckons that the games industry still has a lot of growing up to do.
The Epic Games boss explained in a recent interview that the industry needs to learn to share and co-operate more in order for it to grow especially in terms of the quality of games produces.
"Our games industry is shockingly immature from a business perspective, because so few folks have business experience before coming in, or an education for business. It's awesome because it's entrepreneurship gone right, that's what our industry comes from, and that's really exciting, but there's not a lot of sharing, there's not a lot of great game business 'how to' books, so we try to share and people listen to us, for some reason, and we try to learn as much as we can from everybody else and their mistakes. It just seemed like the right thing to do," Capps began.
Sharing experiences seems to be a big part of Capps' ideas for growth. He added: "There's no reason, if you find a bug, you don't go 'ha ha ha, that'll give us an edge on Splinter Cell!' Because it doesn't at all and so you share it, because it's one less thing that Epic has to find and fix and they can focus on something you care more about. And you share with the Mass Effect guys and they share with you."
Epic has just topped the iPhone charts with their latest release, Infinity Blade 2.
Thanks GamesIndustry.biz.
