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Stephen Richards's Blog

I'm an app developer and games designer, with a particular interest in narrative design.

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Free to Play: a socialist alternative?  Featured Blogs
Posted by Stephen Richards on Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:57:00 EDT in Social/Online, Design
I discuss some thoughts I've had on free-to-play, such as whether it's inherently evil or going to take over the world.
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Comment In: Why I'll Never Work on First-Person Shooters Again [Blog - 04/19/2013 - 06:56]

I liked this article. I ...

I liked this article. I 'm actually surprised this is still an issue, I thought Call of Duty and Halo had killed off most other shooters by now. The fps market may be the most profitable, but it 's definitely a select few which are taking the lion 's share. ...

Comment In: A Game Without God [Blog - 03/29/2013 - 12:30]

I really liked this article. ...

I really liked this article. I especially like the idea of a game being controversial for reasons other than gratuitous violence or sexual objectification.

Comment In: Free to Play: a socialist alternative? [Blog - 03/23/2013 - 02:57]

I was using socialist in ...

I was using socialist in a fairly loose sense as Alexander says below it 's not a concept that literally applies to business models. Also I wouldn 't use the phrase a form of socialism as the news summary claims. I would say F2P has elements of socialism, for the ...

Comment In: Apathy and refunds are more dangerous than piracy. [Blog - 03/18/2013 - 05:10]

You may be right in ...

You may be right in arguing that adding DRM probably doesn 't increase profits. But profits may not be the only motivating factor behind attempts to stop piracy. For example, the designers, programmers and artists making a game may feel that given the amount of work they 've put into ...

Comment In: Video: How Plants vs. Zombies' designer got his mom to play [News - 03/18/2013 - 12:53]

Really great speech. It 's ...

Really great speech. It 's telling when George says I know it seems obvious.. . Displayed in this way, it seems hard to imagine how developers could fail to implement these rules, when in reality only a minority do it half as well as PvZ. This should be compulsory viewing ...

Comment In: App Development and the Art of Plumbing [Blog - 03/14/2013 - 11:13]

As Pascal said, I think ...

As Pascal said, I think your problem was choosing a type of game for which the market is already very saturated, with both big brands and small. I searched for 'Play Poker ' on google play and couldn 't find it within the first three pages. So you 're probably ...

   

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