Game Thinker and Game Maker with more than a decade of experience, former EA Los Angeles contractor as RTS games patch balance designer and current game director and creative lead of the british-brazilian FluidPlay Studios.
True, and that nasty side effect usually called slippery slope is mostly tied to the traditional game structure of the RTS games. Unfortunately in recent years the wrong elements have been attacked, like limiting popcap and even upkeep - not to mention completely limiting the amount of units and removing ...
So sad to see Nick go. He was the one in the top ranks to push Unity towards not-so-flashy-yet-needed avenues, like the new GUI and a global timeline, similar to Flash 's. I 'm afraid Unity will suffer in the long run with the lack of his vision and future-proof ...
Not to mention that a prototype is the shortest path between your vision and an external coder, if you want to later optimize things or hire a coder from the east. Playmaker is amazing, I 've even used it for a 48H Ludum Dare with our vector art system RageTools ...
I couldn 't say it any better, 100 agreed. In part that 's fault of the game industry new landscape. Any novice gamedev reading about it will surely get entangled by the multiple options being discussed everywhere - and changing everyday like you said. If you 're aiming for some ...
Simple, simply use all of them to your advantage so your ideas get done, and quickly stereotype anyone that goes against your ideas by pointing them to this article - creditably created by the great Cliff Bleszinski
The only thing Blizzard provided IceFrog, once contacted, was a sound F.O . Everybody seems to forget that. Even their promised sell-able Blizz-approved mods never turned into a reality, due to multiple excuses, which was again incredibly short-sighted. Now they have official mod maps wtf is that supposed to mean ...
