Richard Garriot should man-up and apologise not simply 'clarify ' for the rather ill-thought comments. We get what he was trying to say - yes, design is hard, there 's little formal training or methodology available, it used to attract poor candidates for the role. But you don 't need ...
I concur with Lo Pan - the main problem isn't cool ideas or concepts - it's the Japanese development culture, with it's strong focus on hierarchy and desire to keep your head down, and crazy emphasis on senior individuals taking responsibility for every part of the game design, rather than ...
Does personal choice need to be tied to intimately to game mechanics Indeed, does doing so merely reduce the choice to an economic decision To take the Bioshock example if saving or killing the Little Sisters provides a tangable in-game advantage/disadvantage, then the choice from a game mechanics perspective is ...
