Experienced designer on console, mobile and social. Now Lead Designer at AC+A (adriancrook.com) and freelancer/consultant, focusing on mobile, social and casual games. Also Lead Designer at PlayRank, a 2nd screen startup PlayRank.com
Also have a portfolio of (old) indie work done in Game Maker way back when, editmodegames.com.
What is really being talked about here are a wide birth of AEM features user Acquisition, Engagement, Monetization that are prevalent in mobile/social.
I don 't see any problem with Keith 's comment. He thought the review was heavy in rhetoric, Devin thought it was refreshing. The writing style of a review is as open to critique as the game being reviewed.
Apart from the cozy, blurred relationship that it seems many journalists have with PR, another thing rampant in the industry culture that greatly irks me that ties in here - The general fury that gets unleashed all too easily it seems in people journalists, developers, players when ideas are brought ...
Well considering the relative lack of innovation in JPRGs since the original release of P3, I 'd still say it 's a breath of fresh air to those playing it for the first time which says a lot . r n r nAlso a game can be fresh/innovative simply by ...
In the corporate culture the big problems are the extreme aversion to risk, that trumps any desire to be innovative, and the glacial rate of change. For example, clinging to the employment for life idea and madogiwa zoku corporate deadwood doesn 't help the creativity or the bottom line in ...
