This is a bit old at the moment as we missed it when it was published on January 9th, 2007, but Gamasutra focused their weekly column “Media Consumption” on Petri Järvilehto; Creative Director on Alan Wake. Media Consumption is a column that looks at the media and art diets of our favourite industry personalities.
It’s a good little insight into Petri’s favourite music, movies, books and games and also has a little bit about Alan Wake in it.
The game is set for release on PC and Xbox 360, though is currently without a date. Järvilehto notes that the game is “coming together well”, adding that he feels Alan Wake is “an exciting project to work with, both technology as well as concept and story-wise”.
The game was demonstrated at the Intel Development Forum at X06 in Barcelona back in September. “Everyone seemed to like the direction where we are heading, and even though we’re not really talking about the game right now, I’m starting to get anxious to show all of the new stuff that we have up and running,” Järvilehto comments.
We took some time to ask Helsinki, Finland-headquartered Järvilehto about the ill culinary behaviour going on in his media diet right now.
Remedy’s Development Director, Markus Mäki, is set to speak at the upcoming Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday March 7th, 2007.
Markus’ session will be a 60 minute lecture on how the gaming industry is rapidly changing to a distributed model and will also discuss how Remedy’s team structure, every-day tools and processes are tailored to meet the challenge of Alan Wake.
Swedish newspaper, Aftonbladet, has listed Alan Wake as the number one most wanted game of 2007!
Alan Wake beat games such as Spore, Grand Theft Auto IV, Bioshock and Crysis to name just a few amongst the 50 titles listed. Though the site is in swedish you can check it out here.
Finnish television show Tilt.tv had a interview with Petri Järvilehto, Sami Järvi (aka Sam Lake) and Saku Lehtinen a couple months ago which we unfortunately missed. The interview was recorded and uploaded on YouTube, albeit in very low quality.
What distinguishes this from the rest is that throughout the interview pictures are shown of the Pacific Northwest in Washington, where Alan Wake is based on. Some of them are very cool to check out; especially the motion capture one.
