Indie Game: The Movie Page #4

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They want to see the game.

"When do we get the game..."

"When can we play the game..."

There's been so much speculation about

When? Where? ... How?

If EVER this game is going to come out

FINISH THE GOD DAMN GAME!

I'm working on it.

As hard as I can.

All the time.

"What's taking so long"

"What the f*** are you doing Phil?"

I'm doing the best I can here!

I don't hear people b*tch about

Valve taking-

Well, no, they do b*tch about Valve

and Episode 3.

BUT NOT AS MUCH AS FEZ!!

And there's hundreds of people

working there!

ICO took five years...

Red Dead Redemption:

A thousand people. Five years.

GTA4:

A thousand people. Five years.

Nobody b*tches about that-

A THOUSAND PEOPLE!!

There's two of us here

"It's taking too long"

F*** OFF!

JESUS F***ING CHRIST!

Like...

It really gets to me.

I guess, that's the price you pay

for being indie.

And being the one guy that

people know is making the game.

You open yourself up to

these kinds of personal attacks.

That I wasn't ... uh ...

That's not something I was expecting,

when dreaming about being independent.

Not this Army of A**holes online ...

... to, not ruin my life,

but to make it that more ...

...hard to enjoy.

It's a complicated game also.

It was ridiculously over ambitious.

For my first indie game.

It's a classic mistake.

And we didn't realize

we were making it.

We thought it was going to take a year

We thought it was going to be

a simple game.

And it became a completely

different game many times.

[Phil & Renaud converse in French]

My name is Renaud.

I've been programming FEZ

since the beginning.

Since three years ago.

Day to day, it's just coding stuff.

Adding features. Fixing bugs.

That's what I do.

There's a lot of

personal pressure to ...

... finish what you've been working on

for so long.

And there's a lot of people

expecting it to be really awesome.

And much bigger than we've shown.

Because, every time we show something.

We say:
'oh that's nothing'.

'that's just a small part'

'you'll see how much better it gets'

The personal pressure is bigger to me

than the outside world pressure.

I really need to get this done.

It's a learning experience

I've made games before. But I've never

produced an entire game from A to Z.

For commercial release

On a real platform.

With Microsoft.

I've never done that before.

It's terrifying.

It's really really really scary.

Especially when you lose funding.

Or something like that ...

There's just no safety net there.

There's nothing to fall back on.

There's always the threat of

everything falling apart.

Any day now.

FEZ is now scheduled

to release in 2011

13 months left.

It was very difficult to make the game

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