Jackass producer answers questions about his own game
by Andrew Yoon 
{ Aug 6th 2007 at 12:30PM }
In a self-made interview, Aaron Rigby, producer of the upcoming Jackass game, talked about some of the features in this licensed PS2/PSP game. Our initial hands-on impressions of the mini-game collection were surprisingly positive, thanks to the game's great sense of humor, and wonderful video editing feature. Read on for more.
How came the idea of a Jackass game?
The original series was the biggest inspiration. It was just crazy and creative. The way the jackass crew had the show set up gave us the opportunity to draw from a huge amount of stunts.
Is the game based in actual sketches or are they completely new?
Nearly every stunt is original. The risk-factor of the stunts has been pushed higher for the game so, as tough as the guys are, they probably wouldn't survive things like diving off a sky-scraper or rolling down a street in a trash can. We can get away with a lot more peril in the games that would be suicidal with real people.
Gallery: Jackass: The Game
Does Jackass - The Game have multiplayer elements?
Oh, yeah. The PS2 will give you head-to-head and round-robin gameplay and the PSP version takes advantage on the WiFi features for multiplayer.
What are the differences between the PSP and the PS2 versions?
Well, multiplayer is one of the differences. The PSP version also supports editing and exporting your replays. Basically, you play a stunt, save the replay, head over to Director mode and edits things like length, camera angels, add slo-mo, then export the stunt to your memory stick. Once it's exported, you can upload the stunt too and show off your mad skills. For the PS2, you'll get more detailed environments, including pedestrians to annoy during the stunts, and we expanded on the Bail-Out feature, where you rack up points based on how many injuries your character sustains.
Was very difficult to create a game based in a TV series that hasn't got any kind of story or screenplay?
Oh, definitely. The story was pretty basic initially, but we got help from the jackass cast to make it more authentic. It was their input that made the story-line work and their voices that added the credibility and humor to it.
The big appeal of Jackass is the spontaneity. Do you think you have succeeded translating this into a videogame?
That was a real pain. In most games success is success, you either accomplished your goals or you didn't. Jackass doesn't work like that. The stunts in the show were just as good whether they accomplished what they set out to do or failed completely. That means that our goals in a stunt had to make sure that an entertaining failure worked just as well as a resounding success.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sandino @ Aug 6th 2007 6:52PM
self made interview?
This interview was made by a well-known spanish games journalist and delivered by the company to the media as proper promotion material, without permission or knowledge of the spasnish journalist who, eventually, ended up working FOR the company and the promotion of its game... for free. They even fooled the journalist into thinking he was being granted an exclusive interview with Jonhnny Knoxville in exchange of 2 pages on his magazine speaking about the game: then they had the producer answering the questions, and used the interview as promotion material.
Unfortunately this kind of shit is quite usual in the business...
its all explained here: http://www.mondo-pixel.com/