Mike is a seasoned Design Director with 17 years of industry experience (formerly of EA, Radical and THQ). His expertise lies in the systems, mechanics & feature design and direction of racing, combat and character-action console games. He has designed, directed and balanced most of the gameplay systems, mechanics and driving physics for several versions of Road Rash and for Scarface: The World is Yours and has also done design and direction work on several EA franchises including James Bond. Most recently Mike was a Sr. Creative Manager at THQ working with multiple creative teams and helping with the evaluation and evangelism of new game pitches.
Unsatisfied with the heavy imbalance of theory-based design articles, Mike started a Gamasutra Feature Series on Gameplay Fundamentals in order to help fill the void of gameplay-focused design, level production and execution process articles.
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Casual games are not going to crash. The number of game players in the world has doubled in the past 3 1/2 years and the majority of the new comers are casual, non-core players. Games are no longer niche or the sole domain of the hard core player. Mass market ...
Ha. I was just thinking yesterday while reading the offer from Minecraft to fund Psychonauts 2 that it would be better for Double Fine if they did a Kickstarter Crowd-sourcing campaign. Good for them
Bart, I am not trying to defend them but I do believe Z had an early app store Scramble game that they rebuilt as Scramble with Friends presumably with the Words WF engine . I'm not sure which was out first but it could have been either. Also, both games ...
