That said, for the first time, BAFTA will identify, celebrate and support up to five talents working in film, games or television in India through its BAFTA Breakthrough India initiative. One of the reasons why it was really easy to continue with SingStar and other games like Wonderbook is because there was so there was commercially successful as well as critically acclaimed.” “There's more collaboration between games and technology and other industries.” And also, they have the expectation that you're going to do something different but also something that's really successful. “It means that your artistic vision is listened to and people are interested in what you're trying to do. “Being a BAFTA Breakthrough winner has been a career highlight for me,” she says. While the games industry has its fair share of awards, few are as prestigious or known outside of the business as BAFTA. The conversation shifts to Desodt’s BAFTA Breakthrough win. They kind of changed the flavour and focus of the studio which was, before SingStar, very much also known as a male-dominated genres.” “There was a time where kind of game really flourished for the first time and Wonderbook was a continuation of that. “SingStar was probably a difficult sell for some people but it was something that was supported within London Studio that persuaded the wider Sony group to make the game which was a great move,” she says. SingStar’s success paved the way for Wonderbook, an ambitious augmented reality peripheral for the PS3 that used the PlayStation Move controller and PlayStation Eye. Because it changed a lot in terms of the game genre that was being made, the technology that was being used, and reaching a really wide audience with a game that was intuitive.” I'm really, really proud of the studio for taking a risk and deciding to make that game. “It was a massive gamble for the studio as well. “We made a lot of versions of SingStar because it really took off,” she says. It was a tremendous risk for the studio at a time when you consider the biggest-selling games revolved around guns and gore. Desodt was relieved with the success it met. This resulted in the version of SingStar we know. Then eventually, with the prototype I made, we put a different game design around it.” So it was going to be like an adventure role-playing game. “At the time, the game design was very different. “Making the feature set and making the technology behind SingStar was a lot of R&D ,” she says. "Because it changed a lot in terms of the game genre that was being made, the technology that was being used, and reaching a really wide audience with a game that was intuitive.” When asked what it was like to bring SingStar to life, she revealed that the game initially had a very different direction to what finally hit the shelves. I was one of the first developers to work on the PS2 sound processing units in terms of making games.” An engineer was something that didn't exist at the time, certainly within Sony London studio. “It really did feel like the games industry was a very different place at the time. It's hard to fault the business sense, however, as the PS2 has a much higher installed based than its big brother, and it's not like these titles need much horsepower to run.“There were a lot of challenges when making things in the early days,” she says of developing games in the 2000s. Though the recently announced disc-swapping feature is better then nothing, actual DLC would be much preferred. It's a bit disappointing for SingStar fans that these songs are only going to be available on the PS2, instead of also coming to the PS3 as downloadable content. Head over to IGN for the complete track listings. The second Pop edition meanwhile, will include more contemporary acts like Fallout Boy and Maroon 5. The Country version will feature the likes Keith Urban, Johnny Cash, and Willie Nelson, while Legends will include everyone from John Lennon to Marvin Gaye to Black Sabbath. ![]() This time around they have announced SingStar Country, Legends and Pop Volume 2. Despite the promise of downloadable tracks for the PlayStation 3 version of SingStar, Sony continues to roll out new discs full of songs for the PS2.
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