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Comment In: The Game Design Tax Man [Blog - 08/22/2012 - 01:20]

If you specify your gamer-tax ...

If you specify your gamer-tax to only learning. how to use the controls, then yes Portal 's stops once you can use both portals as you suggest. But I can 't see why it wouldn 't extend to knowing the potential of what you can do with those controls In ...

Comment In: Gen4: The Hard Sell All Around [Blog - 05/17/2012 - 09:42]

This reminds me of my ...

This reminds me of my biology lessons back at school. We learnt about 'limiting factors ', how an organisms potential growth is limited by the most unfavourable property e.g. lack of food, or excess predators. With games consoles I 'd argue that the graphics are no longer the limiting factor, ...

Comment In: Gamification: The Misunderstood Dirty Word [Blog - 05/16/2012 - 10:53]

People want to take the ...

People want to take the soul of games, tear it out then sprinkle it on other things. Most gamers want to protect what s awesome about games. They want it to be genuine and respect what games do. r n r nThis seems pretty arrogant to me. Do you think ...

Comment In: Making Lean Startup Tactics Work for Games [Feature - 04/17/2012 - 04:00]

Perhaps the 'minimal ' part ...

Perhaps the 'minimal ' part of it should be thought of as the minimal amount of work possible to let you get a gauge on whether you 're working on something worthwhile. So if you 're not sure whether your players will enjoy the new way that mario runs around ...

Comment In: Eidos' D'Astous: Overhauling IPs 'replaces the necessity of having new IPs' [News - 04/09/2012 - 01:35]

I 'd agree that balancing ...

I 'd agree that balancing the two is needed, although I 'd suggest it 's for different reasons. Creating new IP 's promotes more innovation, which is great in the long term, but refreshing existing IPs is the more solid business choice in the short term, so I 'd think ...

Comment In: Story Design Challenge #2: The Results [Blog - 04/03/2012 - 04:53]

I know I 'm too ...

I know I 'm too late to enter the competition, but I thought I 'd try writing an entrance anyway, since I haven 't done any creative writing since high school several years ago. As penance for my tardiness, I kept it to 150 words but hopefully made it at ...

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