Tim Ryan is a veteran video game designer and producer having worked in the industry since the early 90's. He is an irregular contributor to Gamasutra. His articles are in the design and production archives. His website: www.FireMuse.net E-mail: Tim@FireMuse.net
Posted by Timothy Ryan on Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:43:00 EST in
250 pages in, I can use some test readers on The Illusion Game, a novel that spans two worlds - an MMORPG world and the game company that is working on it.
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Andy I'm intrigued to know if anyone has done this effectively on small lt 4month Yes. I am doing both. These days I ship over 30 original games a year most with short development cycles. Stacked back to back, a one or two week slip on multiple small games can ...
Denny is a fighter. I believe Day 1 will survive though maybe not doing the same kind of games. The shooter genre is highly competitive and if you're not beating games like COD or Modern Warfare, you will lose your shirt trying.
I think we have a few years left for the current console generation. The costs associated with console transition have skyrocketed, so the typical 7-year console cycle will be lengthened for XBox 360 and PS3 while publishers seek a return on their investment. Wii has never been a graphic powerhouse ...
Funny, I was just going to blog about this. SCRUM is NOT a perfect match for all game companies, and there are quite a few reasons why: 1 Game companies have a traditionally military-style chain of command which runs counter to leader-less SCRUM teams. We just don't want to give ...
The problem is that MetaCritic now rates individual people based on their game credits, and to be excluded from a game credits for arbitrary reasons CAN be shown to cause harm if your future chances of landing a job are based as they often are these days on MetaCritic scores. ...
