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Making a Guitar Hero

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#264. Pompous little indie douchebag

September 3, 2009

TONY: Sorry about that. I thought once we got you in the room with that Rock Band guy, we'd be good...
KEVIN: Ugh, "Alex Rigopulos!" What a pompous little indie DOUCHEBAG.

TONY: Look, it doesn't matter. We'll just pitch to Guitar Hero now, OK?
KEVIN: Yeah, let's talk to the ORIGINAL music game! Not some cheap COPY!

TONY: Well... Alex and his company actually invented Guitar Hero, too.

KEVIN: Bah... I hate it when douchebags are successful.
TONY: As do I.

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#265. The Kevin Edo business

September 4, 2009

TONY: Kevin, this is Bobby, he's from Activision. They do GUITAR HERO....
KEVIN: Hi, I'm-

BOBBY KOTICK: Oh, I KNOW who YOU are. Kevin, Activision wants to be... in the KEVIN EDO BUSINESS.
KEVIN: So you'll put us in the game?

BOBBY KOTICK: No... we want you to have your OWN game. We want to make a CUSTOM Guitar Hero JUST for Jumpstart Malady.
SOUND: CA-CHING!

KEVIN: Whoa, Anth, your eyes became little DOLLAR SIGNS for a second...
TONY: Yeah, that's a... a little facial tic I have...

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#266. Guitar Hero: Jumpstart Malady

September 5, 2009

TONY: So... great! Good to go. We'll make GUITAR HERO: JUMPSTART MALADY.
KEVIN: Awesome! My kid's gonna FREAK... how long'll this take?

BOBBY KOTICK: Well, each of our band editions is very SPECIAL to us, of course, but we've got over 17 in the pipeline. So by now it only takes...

BOBBY KOTICK: Scott, how long did GUITAR HERO: LEN take us?
SCOTT OF ACTIVISION: OH... about 3 man-hours.

KEVIN: Sweet! So we can knock this out by 6 o'CLOCK...
BOBBY KOTICK: Now, YOUR game will have more than one SONG in it though...

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#267. Coding your Guitar Hero

September 6, 2009

BOBBY KOTICK: Kevin, this is Yevgeny. He'll be coding your Guitar Hero.
KEVIN: You enjoy music, dude?
YEVGENY: I enjoy traditional Bashkir music ONLY.

BOBBY KOTICK: Yevgeny, the band's name is "Jumpstart Malady".
YEVGENY: OK... I run search for "Yellowcard"... replace with "Jumpstart Malady"...

YEVGENY: Coding of game is done.
BOBBY KOTICK: Great! I'm glad we fit that in before lunch...

KEVIN: Who's your favorite KURAI player, man?
YEVGENY: My allegiance belongs to Diyarov.
BOBBY KOTICK: Don't talk to the developers, Kevin. It CHEAPENS you.

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#268. Motion capture for Guitar Hero

September 7, 2009

TYLER THE MOCAP GUY: ...and one last one... let's see you do a SOLO...
KEVIN: OK...

TYLER THE MOCAP GUY: Oh, of COURSE, Mr. Edo!
KEVIN: I'd love it if you could mo-cap me simulating sex in one of these.

KEVIN: My publicist could produce my fake sex tapes SOOOO much easier.
TYLER THE MOCAP GUY: Sure, sure... Jenny? You wanna jump in a suit and hump Mr. Edo, please?

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