Paradox Interactive is a development studio based in Stockholm. They focus on strategic and historical games, and their recent release of Leviathan: Warships, which received five out of five woofs from yours truly has, er, made some waves in the Android community. Paradox was nice enough to take some time out of developing patches for Leviathan to answer some of my questions.
GAMEWOOF: First off, I know you want to talk about Leviathan: Warships but I have to talk to you about the trailer. Easily the funniest game trailer I have ever seen. How did the idea of a Jazzy, late-night radio broadcast come about? Who did the voice over and is there some kind of award we can give him?
**Answer from Steven Wells, Video Producer at Paradox Interactive**
CEO Fred Wester and I have a particular affinity for bad puns and lame jokes. Over the months that we on the marketing team were working on the project, I would tell Fred any terrible boat puns I’d come up with and he’d do the same. So by the time the trailer was recorded, it was well established that boat puns were funny.
The idea for the trailer came after I’d actually recorded and edited a different version of the trailer at home, with fast music, loud yelling, and of course boat puns. It was decent, but I wasn’t really satisfied. I showed a draft to my girlfriend who agreed that it was missing something. At some point I made some jokes about slow jazz and sexy boat puns. She suggested I make that version of the trailer instead. That morning before work I recorded it at my desk using some of the puns from the previous draft and lots of impromptu boat phrases, edited the trailer that day at the office, spread it around to Shams our biz dev guy who loved it, and released it the day after to much fanfare. I’m glad I listened to my girlfriend. :)
Today Paradox Interactive announced that it's parting ways with its subsidiary studio Harebrained Schemes effective January 1, 2024.
I mean it wasn't that intelligent to begin with, release it exclusive to the system that doesn't buy games. Plus it was on gamepass if I'm not mistaken. It's been a minute since I had mine on cause I just wrapped up chrono cross on ps5 but remember looking forward to checking this out on the Xbox. Try it on xbox if I liked it I would've bought on ps
dude go somewhere with that hating on xbox crap. you just admit yourself you wasnt buy the game on xbox , you played it on gamepass and buy it on ps5. you sounds dumb . you silent on forspoken and FF16 didnt sale good. and many other games. keep eating that foot in your mouth
Ff16 sold fairly well.
I prefer to buy on the console who isn't openly trying to kill physical media sorry for your feelings. Ms has been trying to kill physical for some time. Nintendo and sony are the ones still working with smaller publishers. So yes I will buy a game preferably on ps when possible. You act like I just admitted to murder lol. Relax
@shinoff2183
lies. the ceo said himself FF16 didnt sale good. stop the cap. and you can buy them games on xbox. so you full of crap. and what you mean Nintendo and sony are the ones still working with publishers.???? what the hell are you talking about dude xbox works with small publishers. you trying to move the goalpost to fix your narrative. so gonna ignored sony ps5 all digital system huh . rumor next nintendo system will be a digital also with two version.
Really xbox works with smaller publishers. I've heard numerous times xboxs minimum print is to high which is why you don't see smaller publishers like limited run games, special reserve etc work with xbox physical releases. I've read as high as 50k meanwhile Sony and Nintendo have had prints of 1k. Some wonder why smaller publisher haven't worked with ms on smaller releases. That's exactly why.
I assume you just don't know wtf your talking about. And again as someone who prefers physical video games why would or why should I give my hard earned money to a company who has since the announcement of xbox one been out to get rid of physical games. Gtfoh
Far as final fantasy 16 it's been stated It sold fine, would of sold more on pc sure, but it wouldnt of sold well on xbox, we know this, thank you ms. Ms admitted to games bot selling well on that platform already. Here's a newsflash to ya though psssss I didn't really like ff16 much anyway. So that's cute of you.
To clarify maybe a little I'm talking about smaller publishers that produce physical games. Not just any publisher
Paradox Interactive appears to be about to reveal something mysterious next week. It could be a new Civilization-style game, or something else entirely.
Besides its 11 active games, Swedish video game publisher Paradox Interactive currently has a staggering 13 brand-new titles in development.
That was brilliant marketing from Paradox Interactive...brilliant.
I loved those promo videos.