Remedy: Our inspiration is anything but videogames

Oskari Hakkinen, Remedy’s Head of Franchise Development, sat down for an interview with GamerZines to reveal where their company get inspiration from for their games. His reply: anywhere but other games.

Oskari Hakkinen, Remedy’s Head of Franchise Development, sat down for an interview with GamerZines to reveal where their company get inspiration from for their games. His reply: anywhere but other games.

“We don’t take a lot of inspiration from games, so to speak,” he said. “We don’t look at other videogames as a source of inspiration but we do definitely look into other pop culture like movies, books, graphic novels, TV series and alike.

Lost is certainly an inspiration, not from a plot perspective, but what Lost do really well is a tightly-paced thriller in a TV series type format, and that’s definitely an inspiration.”

Alan Wake comes out May 19th, as an Xbox 360 exclusive.

Via [GamerZines]

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