I'm 24 years old, and I'm an aspiring game programmer. I have a bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in mathematics. My plan is to pursue a master's in interactive technology from the Guildhall at SMU, and pursue a career as a professional game developer from afterwards.
There are people who believe that if a game is too "hardcore" it alienates the casual players, and there are people who believe that if a game is too "casual" it alienates the hardcore players. I believe this is a false dichotomy.
Posted by John Hahn on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:43:00 EDT in
Games have been around since the 1970s (roughly), which means that if those early developers had made a lifelong career out of it, then they would be in their 50s today. Yet, most shops are full of people in their 20s and 30s. I wonder why this is?
As another alternative business model: Someone suggested that you could have an ad just before the game starts that lasts 10-15 seconds. If the user purchases the game then the ad goes away. How about using the business model of The Truman Show . For those of you that haven't ...
I wonder what of 360 owners also own a PS3 and what of PS3 owners also own a 360. It could be that we are talking about a rather small of the overall market for these platforms. If only 5 of 360 owners also own a PS3 and 1 of ...
20 years ago it was declared that the CD would be the death blow to vinyl release but fast-forward to 2009 and vinyl is still going strong. 20 years ago vinyl was the industry standard for physical music media tapes gained popularity because they could be played in the car, ...
One thing that I've noticed with more modern shooters, like CoD4, for instance, is that there are certain instances where the game cheats and just keeps spawning more bad guys endlessly. The idea is that you aren't supposed to kill everyone on the map. Attempting to do so is futile ...
He said shooters rather than first person shooters . The third person shooters like Gears of War are equally popular. It's not about the view perspective, it's about the gunplay.
@David, I agree with your overall idea, but I also think Tim would have a point if you used the movie industry instead of the music industry. When a movie is being made, the director is basically the mastermind behind the whole thing. Everyone else just does what they are ...
