A Reuters story titled "Video game makers seek more fun" is currently making the rounds on different news services. Not surprisingly it's all about how un-fun a lot of games are these days, and features some interesting tidbits from Ron Gilbert.
Ron Gilbert, an independent game designer, said he is trying to create less expensive games that can be completed in four hours, which is about one-tenth the time of many games today. Gilbert said he is in the process of shopping story-based adventure games to publishers.Make of this what you will.
"When you spend all day at work, the last thing you want to do is go home and become frustrated by video games," Gilbert said. "There is a gigantic group of people who want easy-to-play games."