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| Re: More Adventures in 'Who Writes This Stuff!?' | |
| Posted By: Louis Wu <halo@bungie.org> | Date: 9/28/10 10:14 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: More Adventures in 'Who Writes This Stuff!?' (General Battuta) : Marathon did. :( I had this conversation with someone recently - if you took every word Bungie's ever published about the Marathon universe, and wrote them down on paper (or a Word document, I'm not asking you to be a Luddite), you'd have a handful of pages - certainly fewer than 20 or 30. The rest of the Marathon lore - the HUGE body of work that fleshes out the universe - was all created by fans. And it was created over a period of more than a decade, with the PRIMARY FOCUS of remaining consistent with the existing work. And even with that tiny amount of actual developer material, Bungie STILL had to release the 'Lost Network Packets' to reconcile some problems in the timelines. In contrast, Halo's got 5 games (6, if you count Halo Wars), 7-10 books depending on what you count as a 'book', a half-dozen comic series, a DVD's worth of short animations... the quantity of non-fan-created material is VAST. And the producers of that material range from the game developers to hired authors to contract animators in a foreign country. In short - it's not fair to compare the two; when you produce almost no primary material, it's MUCH easier to withstand detailed scrutiny, since you don't have as much OPPORTUNITY to run into conflicts.
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