Excellent article from Lisa Wood Shapiro about what it was like to produce Ripper, a 6-disc FMV game starring Christopher Walken. Shapiro was the production office coordinator for the game, and she shares a lot here about her experiences producing an FMV game with a team that was tremendously overworked.

A typical movie script averages around 120 pages, but Ripper’s was 317 pages and a full four inches thick. Each scene required the actors to do multiple takes with the different lines that would enable the player to go off in various directions. “Walken would do the same scene with all these different bits of dialog,” head game designer and writer F. J. Lennon tells me. “You needed all those different lines. The big thing for us was hours of play.” The shoot was so complex that the writers were on set at all times, often making changes as they went along.

(Take-Two Interactive - PC/Mac)