Games traditionally seek to create a feeling of stress when they are played poorly. This approach has worked well in the past, but should it change for the next generation of gamers?
@Bart: I agree. I've been waiting on someone to make a decent wheeling-and-dealing social game... if done in a way to make it accessible delivering it with attitude or making it about more than dollars and cents , it could be a very compelling play.
@Alan You might be interested in the Cold Y Generation http://bit.ly/giVJF . It's not a commonly accepted term yet the fact that the Wikipedia article on it I just linked to is scheduled to be merged into the main Generation Y article should be a clue , but I personally ...
Good post, Jason. That's actually pretty close to the format I use for designing small, Flash-based games for my current job. One thing I do differently is place the description of the game's flow earlier in the document usually as part of the basic gameplay description . I do this ...
