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Critters, Art, and Development: Epicenter Studios’ Bryan Jury

Epicenter Studios (Critter Round-Up, Real Heroes: Firefighter) cofounder Bryan Jury sent us a heads up about an interview he did with GameCritics.com’s Brad Gallaway. While I found his email references to himself in third person a little odd, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt since the interview was pretty good. He described it as “a former Call of Duty producer-type from Activision, talks about starting up an independent studio, kind of trashes Gears of War in an answer about games being art, and explains how they got their first game deal”, which more or less hits the nail on the head. On ‘games as art,’ he’s got this to say: