Brian Fargo founded Interplay 45 years ago. He founded inXile nearly 25 years ago, and sold it to Microsoft in 2018. Why is he still–happily–making great games? “I'm pretty sure that Ridley Scott has enough money to quit,” he tells our own Daryl Ogden, in the way he often frames games in the context of other media. “What is he, 88 years old and he's still making films?”
Fargo tells Daryl how the years of running ever-growing companies–Interplay reached 500 game makers at one point–never dimmed his love for developing games,, for pursuing creative ideas, for nurturing creative teams. He tells of how working for Microsoft has freed up both him and his team to focus on the game, and to not worry overly about the business. And he explains as well how a focus on the player allows them to compete with an ever-burgeoning plethora of alternative consumer experiences, all in competition for the ever-shifting attention of the market.
Level Up Games:
Red Dead Redemption 2
Little Nightmares and Little Nightmare 3
Ball x Pit
Whispers from the Star
