Daniel Cook is a veteran game designer who runs the popular game design website Lostgarden.com. He writes extensively on the techniques, theory and business of game design. He is the Chief Creative Officer at Spry Fox, was a professional illustrator in his youth and managed to collect both a degree in physics and an MBA. Some of his games include Triple Town, Steambirds, Tyrian and Leap Day.
Rarely has a more damning critique of the entire boxed product model ever been uttered. - r n r nImagine some crazy industry built on: r nStep 1 Build hype and brand awareness. r nStep 2 Build a product that vaguely matches some points. r nStep 3 Release the product ...
Those inside a community rarely can understand the perspective of those outside of a community. They see the benefits and assume everyone else is in a similar position as themselves. Communities, by their very nature a bounded social systems. Norms and language start to form and some folks bounce off ...
In the grand scheme of things, this particular case is quite rare. Often what game developers describe as period pieces are just light fantastical treatments that repeat existing modern caricatures of a complex era. r n r nHowever, there do exist the occasional historical game that attempts to simulate historical ...
You might find these older articles on the Stage Gate process what you discuss here interesting: r n r nProject Horseshoe overview of Stage Gate as applied to the game industry. r nhttp://www.projecthorseshoe.com/ph06/ph06r5.htm r n r nDiscussion of agile thinking and Stage Gate r nhttp://www.lostgarden.com/2007/02/rockets-cars-and-gardens-visualizing.html r n r nFor what ...
I tried to count up how many years it has actually been and I got a little wobbly on my numbers. :- Tyrian was 1995 r n r nTotally agree with you about being so close to our craft that we often can 't see the joy it brings the ...
