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I have to agree with Adam here Roberto. Unless your '...' was meant to label the post as sarcasm. Sports certainly are both played in real-time and have a massive strategic component. Though RTS players have learned that to be competitive they need to reduce the time it takes to ...
Forgive if I'm way off base here, but wasn't he simply voicing the most extreme concerns of the mass market Wasn't this a bit of extremism to make a point. I don't think he was trying to be hypocritical, he was simply voicing the concerns of the fringe and making ...
I love that the subject of morality-design in games get's this much attention. Honestly, and this is just an opinion, but I don't believe it is possible to design meaningful 'consequences'. The problem stems from the fact that everyone feels something different in every experience whether in real life or ...
There definitely needs to be a blend of the motion sensing with something physically manipulated by the player in my opinion. Boxing on the Wii is alright with the hand held controllers, but the experience really breaks down when your characters start getting hit and your movements no longer are ...
Best 10 bucks I've spent in a long while. Thanks for writing the article. I'd like to drop the 'casual' and 'hard-care' monikers all together. Neither one helps define the demographics, and worse they pigeon-hole some publishers into certain design mentalities that are injurious to the creative process. If Pop-cap ...
The musical analogy is one that I try to use in every level I make. I draw flow diagrams before I start anything else. Basically a beat chart that is the backbone of my musical piece/level. I then fill all the valleys, troughs and mountain peaks with little musical bits ...
