I think the precipitous drop-off was actually a natural part of the game 's lifecycle. For a hot minute, EVERYONE was playing Draw Something. And then EVERYBODY burnt out on it. The brightest candles burn the fastest. r n r nI believe the sharkfin would 've happened with or without ...
This isn 't just someone 's opinion on the internet , Dave. Anna is a widely respected member of the independent games community. She 's a prolific game designer, and published author, and spoke this past weekend at the IndieCade conference this article is about the talk she gave at ...
Social Gaming is not a newspeak phrase. It 's a phrase born out of the development side that is frequently misused and misunderstood. r n r nI 've been in the social game industry since 2008. I 've always defined social games as games designed to be played on social ...
I'm fairly certain that Scramble with Friends was actually developed in Zynga's San Francisco studio, rather than at Zynga with Friends formerly Newtoy in Dallas.
It's quite old at this point, but this excellent discussion reminds me a lot of a piece I wrote for Joystiq way back in '07, defining the role of the queer hero archetype: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/04/playing-dirty-the-queer-hero/
