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Cats or dogs?

I’m just awake, so here are a few ones: Which ingame episode is your favorite one and why? Will you work closer with movie directors on future games? Will you extend the “Bright Falls”-setting for future DLC? What is more important: a good metascore or sold games? and now I must drive to work …

Hi,oh ok,we know Alan is a writer and his lastest writting is about a police in New York who his wife and child have been killed and this story has become popular.Hasn’t this story a relationship with Max payne ? Because First, Max was a police in new york and second, Max payne game is very popular game.

At any point in development was there a fishing mini game, and how far along was it? Will we be likely to see it in DLC?

They could be like evil fish, and when you catch them you have to shine a torch on them before bashing them against a rock

Everyone’s been asking what their movie/book influences were, but I’d be more interested in hearing if they were influenced by any existing survival horror games – specifically whether they were fans of Silent Hill, given that the Alan Wake and Silent Hill have been mentioned in the same breath by the press many times during the game’s development.

Given that traditional horror games appear to be floundering or becoming more like standard third-person shooters, did they have specific ideas on how to reinvent the genre for the 21st century right from the start? Were there things that they definitely wanted to do or to avoid in order to stand out from the crowd or broaden the game’s appeal beyond the usual horror game fanbase?

Where do horror games go from here? What are they still doing badly?

I got only one question for you Remedy.

Is Alan Wake afterall Max Payne?

*hope u get my drift*

Who gave the idea of Alan Wake?

Why did you develop Alan Wake only for Xbox 360? What about the PC version?

Ok last question from me and its if Alan Wake was a real person would he come to VG247 for his gaming news?

What are the sales figures for the Alan Wake boxer shorts?

http://store.alanwake.com/epages/alanwake.sf/en_IE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/alanwake/Products/AW-3010/SubProducts/aw-3010S

1st thx Remedy for this game,i didnt play Alan Wake yet but am alredy excited for a sequell, so my question is would u do a sequell if the sales was less than expected due to the fact that big games will launch near your launch date for Alan this month, but the fans reaction was good and the reviews -as u mentioned- was satisfying to u?

2nd question is that y just u dont put some kind of a survival mode as a DLC, as it’ll be a kind of a competition between players to share the point they gain and the time they stand in this mode?

sorry for the bad english

OK. I’m going to give this another hour then pick ten.

Sam Lake has been quoted as saying “We have all kinds of ideas related to replayability, but we want to prototype them further before we’ll talk about them.”

Want and how many of these ideas made it to fruition, and what fell by the way side?

Its been revealed that the story for Alan Wake 2 has already been thought out, has there been any thoughts given to the story of Alan Wakes third series?

Whats next for the Alan Wake Engine?

What percentage of the games development was outsourced? Given the chance to make Alan Wake 2, would you prefer its development to be handled solely in-house.

If Alan Wake were to become a real tv series, who would you like to play Alan? Would Ilkka Villi be the go to guy.

Something that I’ve been thinking about while I’ve been watching this game is that very often when you’re playing a game that’s got a psychological component, it concentrates on that. Say it has shooting mechanics; they’re not as polished as a shooter, and so the game gets evaluated against shooters and is found lacking.

I felt that to make a GOOD third person shooter with a psychological compontent is very hard to do or almost impossible. Game design formula is not properly cracked yet. Whats your opinion on that? Was that intentional from the start to make a Psychological thriller with Action?

Who’d when in a fight Alan Wake, James Sunderland or Chris Redfield

Who’d survive the night in a haunted house Alan Wake, James Sunderland, Chris Redfield or Luigi

Edit: Hindle already did that one.

If Alan Wake could make a cameo in another game what would it be?

Blerk dude i already asked that question but it was worded differently.

My apologies, Mr Hindle – there’s loads of stuff in here that I’ve just skimmed over.

I have a few more questions. If you could make any game of any genre next what would you like to make and if its not a pure horror game would it have horror elements if possible?

The game has been along time in the making, what held up development for so long and how do you feel now the game has finally gone gold and about to be released?

Do you have any aspirations in making an online component (in some form) to this game or any future games you make?

free stuff drives people crazy and its ok ive asked that many he may not use any lol

Right. Stop please

/stops

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/Hammer time

but? who? what?….damnit!

What was the idea behind the twitter inspired brightfalls.net?

we’ve got until 11:46am

@ 177: Collaborate and listen.

Cant Touch this!!!!! did i come in to late dam it

My-my-my-my music hits me so hard
Makes me say, oh my lord

Thank you for blessing me
With a mind to rhyme and two hype feet

Just Dance has ‘Cant Touch this’ in its song list

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo

What kind of batteries are a flashlight Alan? How they charged without help?

Now you love Alan more than Max? : (

They don’t own Max any more, do they?

Rockstar are developing Max Payne 3

What were your inspirations for the game? Specifically, what books / movies / television inspired various parts of the game and how the ‘look and feel’ comes across?

Is Alan Wake J Allard in a wig?

1)Is there a chance to see the book by Alan?
2)What were the main sources of inspiration for you?
3)Would the development of the story with his father Alan?

Sorry for my terrible english

Will the sequel have kill-streaks or Care-packages? If not, NO SALE!

trolls aside,

Could you Remedy give a short setence on why of the choosing of some of the licensed songs?

OK. I’m going to send these to Microsoft. Really sorry if I didn’t pick your question. Some really brilliant stuff in here. Many thanks for having a go.

6 – CroMagnon

Like Max Payne, Alan Wake is obviously a pun. What were the other first names beginning with ‘A’ you came up with at that first brainstorming session?

8 – Gheritt White

If you had your time making the game again (but know what you know now), what would you do differently?

36 – andry456

If Sony would give you a good sum to make a Killer Application exclusive on PlayStation 3, you could accept?

39 – OlderGamer

With each year that passes, not only does the average age of the gaming public increases but alos far more women game too. How does that impact the game, its content, presentation, and over all development proscess?

52 – Roarster

Lots of games seem to take influence from the films of Ridley Scott (especially Blade Runner, Alien and Black Hawk Down) but Alan Wake is one of the very few that looks towards David Lynch. What attracts you to Lynch and why do you think most developers seem to shy away from his films and the atmosphere they create?

101 – Riren

Was there ever consideration of contracting a Horror author like Stephen King or Dean Koontz to write Alan’s “narrative” passages?

143 – bytemap

A while back there was a poll when you first started developing Alan Wake. In that poll, you asked many fans as to how Alan would interact with his characters coming to life. A majority of fans opted for a gun.

As the idea of this game developed further as a psychological thriller, you encompassed ideas of using light as a weapon. What made you still use a gun as an option?

144 – JoeX111

One of the more prominent themes in Twin Peaks is that the aw-shucks good-naturedness associated with small-towns is just a front for dark dealings behind closed doors. Many Stephen King novels also explore this same theme. As both Twin Peaks and King were obvious influences on “Alan Wake,” what can Bright Falls tell us about isolated communities and the people who thrive there? Is there any larger social commentary beneath the psychological action thriller aspects of the game?

153 – Nprime

we know Alan is a writer and his lastest writting is about a police in New York who his wife and child have been killed and this story has become popular.Hasn’t this story a relationship with Max payne ? Because First, Max was a police in new york and second, Max payne game is very popular game.

155 – Blerk

Given that traditional horror games appear to be floundering or becoming more like standard third-person shooters, did they have specific ideas on how to reinvent the genre for the 21st century right from the start? Were there things that they definitely wanted to do or to avoid in order to stand out from the crowd or broaden the game’s appeal beyond the usual horror game fanbase?

Good show.

It was a good time ^_^

Questions sent!

whatever

ahh darn it, none of mine got in oh well, some good questions sent though