Chapter 15 Getting the Gameplay Working ............

Chapter 15 Getting the Gameplay Working ..............

“Those who wish to be must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascina-

tion, the real relation, the underlying theme.”

— Neil Peart

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ollywood has a system. It is a well-known system with a well-defined goal,
where the largest unknown is “Where is the money coming from?” not “How
will we ever make this film?” Hollywood producers and talent know how to go
from a treatment to a script, through multiple revisions of that script, then how to bring
together the personnel that will shoot the film, and finally a smaller team that will edit
it, culminating in the completion of the film on time and on budget (usually). Hollywood
as a whole has much less of a handle on whether the final film will be any good or not,
but they do at least know how to get the film made. Seldom does a film already in pro-
duction have its script completely rewritten, its personnel trimmed, or more people
added willy-nilly to its cast and crew. Customarily, films are completed months and
months before they are scheduled to be released. Granted, sometimes the film may

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