27 year game industry vet with more scars than should be humanly possible. I'm asked from time to time: "Have you ever..." and before they finish I usually answer: "Yes and prolly more than once".
I have a blog and podcast entitled "about (making) games". You can find it by doing a Google on that title... really, try it right NOW.
Periodic Chart of the Elements... for games. As a board game designer, I tend to talk about games by their main game play element. As a video game producer I talk about a games genre and what new elements a game contains. I needed a way to trends etc.
There's done and then there's DONE and then there's Gold Master. Who really points the finger and says yes it has reached the final point, no more work need be done? Hint: They're paid by the hour.
How many times have I heard: The game doesn't need to be good, we just need it out by the time the next TV Show/Movie/Season . I have said for over 20 years, make good games, the rest will take care of itself.
I strongly believe that crunch time producer fail. No one in his or her right mind makes a schedule that involves working 7 days a week for months. Since the original plan didn't call for that, something had to have changed since project launch. That means the producer let someone ...
But mark your calendars, this time next year there will be a report in main stream media about a slump in year-over-years sales for this month and maybe next month. When all it really is, is that there won't be a title like SC2 released at this exact same time ...
This just goes to show that YoY data is not the best way to measure video game sales trends. There has to be a better way. Maybe we should exclude the top 3 titles, this would eliminate the GTA release or COD release from obscuring the trend. I'm not an ...
