The following stories are passed down to you as game industry folklore.
The truths they reveal to future game designers are more important than
their accuracy.
Lesson One
In the late 1990s, Acclaim Entertainment licensed the movieBatman For
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ever to be developed into a video game. The second Batman movie was
expected to be a major hit, with hot stars like Michael Keaton as Batman,
Jim Carrey as the Riddler, and Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face. At the time,
Acclaim was among the top video game publishers in the world.
When I was hired at Acclaim as producer and then executive producer,
many staff members including producers, assistant ...
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