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Sony green lights’ the documentary

After one month of contact back and forth, Sony allowes us to interview developers of Hardware Rivals

Sony says 'YES' to our documentary plans.

Sjoerd Banga
2018-10-02
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About 1 month ago we started contacting developers of the Sony Playstation videogame Hardware Rivals and tell them about our plans for a documentary about Hardware Rivals and it’s predecessor Hardware Online Arena. The project intrigued a lot of them immediately, so we we received their help to let Sony give us permission to interview developers

At a company as big as Sony there is always lots of red tape involved and people working there have their NDA’s (Non-disclosure Agreements), so it’s always a struggle to let them represent Sony or even their development team.

But the 4 weeks of emailing and especially the first version of the promo made Sony say yes to our project!

The art style we chose leant itself well when designing the projectiles of the weapons. This is especially apparent on maps such as ‘Outpost 92’ where it’s darker and they really look fantastic, almost like a firework display in very heated battles (Natalie Marten – Hardware Rivals Senior Artist)

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Sjoerd Banga

During my teenage years I already new it; I'm going to do something with computers or film. The digital era wasn't really there yet and that is how I rolled into 's why I started out in IT. A great period, during which my curiosity about how things work got satisfied in abundance. Film was a hobby for which my technical background was a blessing. The company I worked for kept growing in the meantime. The IT-department kept growing until we were almost with 1000 of us, but losing the personal contact with the customer; the people for who we built all those beautiful systems with useful tools. Work became more and more abstract. All those years I kept my fondness for film and all these hours filming and editing with my brother taught me the basics of storytelling. Camera's became digital and soon thereafter I decided to quit my job. The reason for this wasn't money, but to get a chance to focus on people again, and their stories. A few years later I also started doing photography and another few years later I picked up building websites. During all this period I realised I could tell stories. Not only my own, but also the stories of other people. What makes them tick and why do they do what they do.

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