@ Zack. I remember reading in an interview on the EDGE magazine website inwhich Shigeru Miyamoto was asked about his game design philosophy and he answered that when he and his team were in the process of conceiving a game design idea, they focused on coming up with experiences which ...
Microsoft will have to promise me something more than just 8 exclusive releases. r n r nThat 's all gamers want really but truth be told the problem of a lack of exclusives is not the hardware manufacturers fault but the fault of the game development industry, it 's getting ...
I 'm just loving all the revulsion that I 'm hearing from game journos and players alike following the reveal of the new Xbox, it fascinates me how everyone is complaining about how there 's nothing new with the next Xbox and how they didn 't see anything that would ...
The most important creative goal in describing a new world what Tolkien called a secondary reality is that it be logically and emotionally consistent within itself, not that it mimic the real world except for also having magic or starships. r n r nI agree. I find that I often ...
I actually blogged about something similar not so long ago after researching about Kickstarters business model. I was appalled at how many people knowingly contributed to projects which didn 't offer any return and weren 't even guaranteed to come to fruition. My ultimate conclusion was to each his own, ...
..we try to write sequences and mechanics that allow each character to take center stage and advance their individual arcs. r n r nI 've always been a fan of the party system in JRPGs and some WRPGs Dragon Age etc but I 've often found that it 's used ...
I think it comes down to something that we 've all experienced at one point or another in our lives, you listen to someone describe this great holiday location, on some distant and exotic island and when they are done you ask, oh great, so have you been there and ...
Speaking from a gamers perspective there are a few problems I have about the way decisions are implemented in narrative RPGs: r n r n1. Character archetypes: usually borrowed from other more static forms of media like film, tv, novels, comic books etc. These force me to think in a ...
I more often discover and buy after I detect a buzz trend among a group of people whose opinions I value see social media r n r nI agree with Kris, this seems like a more organised user curated system than the all hell breaks loose scenario. As a gamer ...
