How Rolando creator Simon Oliver caught the big fish
Just spotted this video from the June 2008 'This Happened' London interaction design meetup, with 20 minutes of Hand Circus's Simon Oliver discussing his inspiration for his iPhone hit Rolando.
Oliver shows off the failed attempts that got him to the place where he could create the game, reveals how Ico/Shadow of the Colossus inspired its design, and gets big bonus points for referencing David Lynch's excellent book Catching the Big Fish in showing where he gets his inspiration (here, physically, a swimming pool).
Simon Oliver at This Happened... [indirect thanks to Rolando artist Mikko Walamies for 'liking' the video]
Previously:
Touch me I'm slick: ngmoco/Hand Circus's Rolando - Offworld
Rolando gets papered - Offworld
Ready for their closeup: Mikko Walamies' Rolando art - Offworld
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sleepybrett
#1 – 9:17 PM February 27, 2009
'"Loco Roco" was definately an inspiration...' FFS the man basically build "Loco Roco" for the iPhone.
greenglyph
#2 – 8:48 AM February 28, 2009
I think it would be fair to give him the benefit of the doubt in this case. He cited it as an influence, along with several other sources that definitely resonate with the finish product (or is that the other way around?). In any event whether it's convergent evolution or iterative innovation, I think leveling claims of plagiarism are a little overzealous.
Did Gygax and Arneson, for instance, plagiarize Tolkien, or build upon his work? I think the former, and I think it's important to consider the possibility of a similar relationship at work here.
sleepybrett
#3 – 11:05 AM February 28, 2009
It think you example needs a little work. Lord of the Rings was first published in 1950, the first D&D edition almost 25 years later. Not to mention that one is a novel, the other is a game.
Loco Roco and Rolando share the same medium and are what ... two years apart? If you sit down and play both side by side it's my feeling that you can't walk away without a bad taste in your mouth.