A game designer in training. Currently a student at Carleton College. Deeply interested in all things game related, though I fall on the mechanics side of the great mechanics-story debate.
Releasing DJ Hero and Tony Hawk: Ride during a recession is gonna kill sales for both those games especially since they aren't hardcore focused . Ever wonder why so many games are delayed until 2010. It's the economy stupid
Comment In: Game Formats [Blog - 08/10/2009 - 04:21]
Format isn't really what most companies want to copy. They don't merely want first-person interaction, they want to make a FPS specifically. When they copy and try to improve upon presumably Call of Duty 4 say, they fail because they don't have the talent or resources of Infinity Ward. I ...
The whole we don't need money because we get to work in a great, fun industry thing is what holds down everyone's salaries. Hollywood is heavily unionized from the directors down to the setbuilders, another reason they get paid so much.
Even in the PC world where users are more used to bugs and stuff people often take the beta to be the game itself and bad word of mouth can really sink things. This, of course, just means that developers I'm mostly talking MMO developers, but they are the ones ...
Often games seem to have an odd disconnect between the player character and the action which they're performing. So I often try to start with the central premises of the gameplay and work out what kind of character would be engaging in such activities, where would they have come from, ...
What I said/meant earlier was that censorship implies the outright destruction of the art/artist part to me more than the rating boards will rate your movie X if you don't take out the graphic sex side of the scale, and that this seems to fall in the middle, which means ...
