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GamerGate - Evidence that Phil Fish stole Fez

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GAMES insisting that our medium can reach beyond entertainment Search Interview: Phil Fish Sunday, November 25, 2007 [8:36 pm Homel lAccountl Phil Fish is lead designer for the forthcoming 3D pixel game Fez, which was recently previewed on Arthouse Games. Fe is also a contender in this vear's IGF. Phil has been making games since he was two years old. After attending both art school and game school, he got his industry start at Ubisoft Montreal, and he currently works in the industry as a level designer. He also makes up one fourth of the Montreal-based game-art collective Kokoromi, and these days he's busy organizing their second annual GAMMA event (which doubles as the closing party for the Montreal RSS 2.0 General Info --Reaclin na ame Submission Older Stories The following interview was conducted by email on November 21, 2007 ame 1a Jason Rohrer: Can you describe the circumstances that led to the creation of Fez? Where did the initial idea come from? Was the 2D/3D idea present from the start, back in the earliest pixel art stages? Phil Fish:Some time ago, me and Shawn McGrath started working on an idea of his. Me and him met at GAMMA and a few times after that. We bonded over our sincere hatred of almost everything around us. So we wanted to collaborate. I offered to help with some art. Other Site ames The Artful Gamer utton for the game's look. The first iteration was all about origami. You know folding paper, folding space. It was pretty cool. But then one night I came up with the trixel idea. Pitched that to him, we both loved it, and that was it. But then we started having a few conflicting ideas about how handle this or that. Being a designer first and artist second, I couldn't just shut up and let him go ahead with what I thought was an absolute trainwreck of a design call. Mind you, by then everything was still super early, and those were the design calls that were going to shape the game. I had a very specific vision of how things should be, and he had a diametrically opposed vision of how things should be. But Shawn being the coder (I can't code s---), he had the bigger end of the stick. So we had a bit of a fight, and we kinda "broke up" Indy Gamer Ito let hun go aheadwith whater first and artist second l ou de should handled eed

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Combo Breaker

Combo Breaker

Feb 04, 2015 at 10:20PM EST

''We bonded over our sincere hatred of almost everything around us'' Phil Fish in a nutshell.

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thegreato

thegreato

Feb 04, 2015 at 09:09PM EST

Holy shit.

He pratically sunk his own ship right there.

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