I was talking to a friend about some books I was reading when he suggested that I read some of Steven King?s works. He?s a big fan of Steven King, and he was telling me about how King wrote a couple of books under a pseudonym and that got me thinking. What if games were ghostwritten, or ghostdeveloped I should say. Say a big developer, like Valve or Rockstar (or whoever your favorite developer is), made a game under a pseudonym. I?m sure both of the developers I mentioned above (or whoever you thought of) are capable of creating some great games but they wouldn?t be judged by the fact that they have the developer?s name, and all of the reputation that comes with it, stamped on the box. I say this because I feel that some games in the industry are judged just because they have a developers name attached to it and not on the game itself. I think it could help show a developer that they could develop a good quality game that?s not judged differently because their name is on it. Or it could go the opposite way and have the game fail miserably and maybe have them reexamine the way they make games. So I was wondering does the Escapist think this could be a good idea.
