Game Programmer living in Bogotá, Colombia. Working for Immersion Games. Participated in development of games such as Monster Madness, and Cellfactor: Psychokinetic Wars. Currently working as AI programmer for AAA 2010: Heroes del Ring, a game about Mexican Wrestling.
Personality can explain why we like or dislike certain type of games. It can also explain why some developers are better at creating an specific type of game.
Dirk, it is true that UT3 also simplified the gameplay a little bit. In fact there's a lot of examples which try in order to make a cleaner game in the UT3 example they fail due to its bugs because simplifying also implies having things done right: as I mentioned ...
Arthur you're right when you say fun is an important aspect of a game, but as I said on my entry it is not always the objective of a game to entertain and therefore fun loses importance. Meanwhile, for the games which do consider fun of extreme importance this entry ...
Upgrades and Achievements are two components that can be followed by the player or not. There's an analysis someone made about open world games explaining examples in Prototype or Infamous where the player can't do anything they want unless they have obtained certain upgrades. I don't see a problem with ...
Games are not meant to follow the trajectory of films. Story may be an important component on videogames but is not everything in games. Games are meant to be an interactive form of entertainment which can be represented as an interactive story or an interactive arcade game. The fact is ...
I agree with the 1 idea in happiness. However I think rewards are not always measurable on videogames. Happiness will always be a very relative matter depending on the player's experience. I know some people that likes playing certain games just for the love of doing something creative. The games ...
It's for sure AI's purpose should be to emulate human behavior. German asks Does bot AI makes fun games and he answers suggesting that better bots means more difficult ones. But it is not really about that. Is about increasing the possibilities for game experiences to the players, if a ...
