Under de senaste åren har det varit svårt att hitta hoppfulla tecken inom spelindustrin i takt med att enorma uppsägningar drabbat utvecklare, kreatörer och även spelmedia. Men Phil Foxton, en branschveteran med 30 års erfarenhet, menar att det fortfarande finns hopp.
Under Barcelona Game Fest i år höll Foxton en presentation om underdogs i spelvärlden och hur de kan vara nyckeln till framtiden. Foxton sade:
"What's happening is those people that have been laid off, they are making studios that are creative powerhouses. They're able to do things that they weren't able to do at the large studios. They're able to make games that we wouldn't see otherwise... We just would not see them if it was still a Microsoft, Sega, Nintendo ruled world.
My whole point of this is, look, yes, the state of play is not that good right now, but it's getting better. There's hope and how to make that hope greater is to actually be the studio that is creating that hope. It's up to people like myself with 30 odd years of industry experience to be the one to go, hey, it's OK. Not a problem. Chill. It's going to be fine. And that's where we're at."
Foxton hjälper idag nya utvecklare att förvandla sina studios till framgångsrika företag och vill se fler underdogs lyckas, eftersom han tror att det är där nästa stora genombrott inom spelvärlden lär komma ifrån. Se hela samtalet med honom nedan.
