Spector working with Pixar on game

By Robert Purchese Published 14 July, 2008

Disney contacts blossoming.

Deus Ex creator Warren Spector has said his Junction Point team is working with Disney Feature Animation and Pixar on a new project.

"My team and I have been working hard on our own and in collaboration with folks from Disney Feature Animation and Pixar. If I say any more, I'll get in trouble, so let's just leave it at that," said Spector on his blog.

Disney acquired the studio last July with an eye to making fresh IP and adapting existing Disney brands for console.

Spector is yet to reveal what Junction Point is up to, but his comments on the official website suggest when he does that half of us will think he is crazy and the other half will be mightily impressed.

However, it's unclear whether this is the same project as the Pixar collaboration.

Spector recently aired his motive for working with Disney as a way to distance himself from games about "guys in black leather carrying guns". He also believes games should be shorter and more creative.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • tomjoadsghost #1 4 years ago

    Really looking forward to this, theres no reason all why licensed games shouldn't be great and employing someone like spector to build those games is the most positive step you could take.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #2 4 years ago

    It wouldn't surprise me if Pixar and Junction Point were collaborating on an upcoming IP, to release a game and a film at the same time. Although as Disney/Pixar have released their schedule going through till 2012, not sure what it could be...

    Next year's film, Up, about an old man and a boy scout having what looks like Baron Munchausen-styled adventures across America would make a great kid-friendly RPG in Spector's hands. It'd make a better game than Newts (a sex comedy about Newts) and Cars 2, anyway.

    Although I'd love to see Spector make a game based on Toy Story 3...

  • alimokrane #3 4 years ago

    He has been saying this since he left Eidos and we have yet to see something COME ON!

  • agparrot #4 4 years ago

    My money is on "Denton vs. Goofy"

  • mkreku #5 4 years ago

    So from Deus Ex to Disney? Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

  • Farfarer #6 4 years ago

    C'mon, don't let us down, Warren :S

  • Wickerman #7 4 years ago

    I'm confused, why would anyone want to distance themselves from the uberness that was Deus Ex?!

    If it was anyone else, I'd say that was just a very flowery way of saying 'Mickey Mouse just dropped a phat load of cash off on my doorstep, and I just couldn't say no', but he actually seems rather passionate about his games...

    Ah well, good luck to him - will be interesting to see what he comes up with!

  • pauleyc #8 4 years ago

    Maybe it's a Toon game (or even an MMO)? Not sure where the Pixar involvement would come into play but it would be interesting nonetheless.

  • bitesize #9 4 years ago

    theres no reason all why licensed games shouldn't be great

    there's plenty of reasons why they're usually not great. they're generally made alongside the film they're licensed from, so you're trying to do a game version of a film that doesn't exist yet, you tend to get very little in the way of finished assets for reference (tho some people are better than others), and most damaging, you're working to a very strict unmovable deadline far in advance of the film's release date (despite the fact that games generally take longer to make than films). all of these add up to an average product at best (with a few notable exceptions, usually ones that aren't trying to make the game of the film but take a different story in the same world).

  • neilka #10 4 years ago

    No, licensed games are rubbish because the developers know they'll sell no matter what kind of tat they churn out.

  • bitesize #11 4 years ago


    let me guess - knowledge of videogame development not your strong suit, then...

  • holydrone #12 4 years ago

    It would be nice to see a Pixar-developed graphics engine, but I doubt that would happen.