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Corey Cole's Blog

Co-creator of the Quest for Glory series, Castle of Dr. Brain, Shannara, Passport2 Bridge, JetSetPoker, The School for Heroes, Tower of Indomitable Circumstance, and others.

Game designer, technical designer, project leader, software engineer. Specialist in role-playing, puzzle, and adventure games.

PC (DOS/Windows), Web (php/HTML/etc.), other platforms. C/C++, many other languages.

Avid role-playing and card gamer. Bridge Silver Life Master. 200+ bowling average. Sing in a choral group (baritone/tenor), play a bit of folk guitar.

Corey Cole's Comments

Comment In: Accessibility & the Folly of Exclusivism [Blog - 04/23/2013 - 06:51]
Great article. I 've been ... Great article. I 've been told I should play Bioshock Infinite for the story and interface research, y 'know , but I 've been avoiding it. Most action games have jerky frame rates that get me seasick. And my tolerance for frustration has declined over the years. So yeah, I ...

Comment In: Why I'll Never Work on First-Person Shooters Again [Blog - 04/19/2013 - 06:56]
I decided long ago not ... I decided long ago not to work on shooters. I have a lot of reasons for this: They make me seasick at least when the frame rate is slow or choppy , I don 't really care for the message of ultra-violence, and I find them me-too, same-old-same-old boring. The ...

Comment In: PC hardware shipments see worst decline ever as mobile reigns [News - 04/11/2013 - 10:47]
I used to buy a ... I used to buy a new system for myself every two-three years. Between my wife, myself, and replacing broken laptops, that typically amounted to a computer purchase each year. r n r nNow I 'm on a system I 've had since 2009. I 've made some minor upgrades to ...

Comment In: Why are We Still Talking about LucasArts' Old Adventure Games? [Feature - 04/05/2013 - 04:00]
Secret of Monkey Island and ... Secret of Monkey Island and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis were Lori 's and my favorite adventure games - Yes, above any Sierra game. We don 't count Quest for Glory - too close to it to compare to anyone else 's game. Ron Gilbert once confided that ...

Comment In: Gamasutra's Kickstarter Survey: The Results [Feature - 08/31/2012 - 04:40]
I thought maybe the Other ... I thought maybe the Other category mostly consists of people who are unemployed and maybe shy about admitting it. It corresponds well with the income 0 - 10K level, which would be unemployed, students, and part-time contractors... or not-yet-successful indie game developers.

Comment In: Chris Crawford reflects on a Kickstarter gone wrong [News - 08/24/2012 - 03:52]
My issue was that it ... My issue was that it is a learning game with little or know opportunity to learn. Perhaps this would have been added in a later build I 'm not sure what Chris 's intentions were/are. It isn 't useful to see a graph showing that the world got better up ...

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