Wesley, in all fairness that seems like a pretty tortured definition of perfect. I think of perfection as I think of uniqueness -- do you also say that something can be very unique This is why the concept of information management is crucial to the design of large-state-space games. It ...
The idea of a publisher sharing more of the revenues from selling a game isn't a bad one on its face. The problem is thinking that the best way to achieve this is to force it. This leads to bad ideas like unionization and going from there. If the idea ...
And my calculation is, as Quantic Dream, I lost between 5 and 10 million Euros worth of royalties because of second hand gaming. You can only lose something if it belongs to you in the first place. What exactly is the legal or ethical basis for this belief beyond because ...
When I think about world design, my first thought is for dynamics. What should be the core systems and how should they interoperate to create a coherent universe So it's interesting to get the perspective of someone who sees world-building primarily as achieving an aesthetic goal. That could well be ...
These articles are always tricky because people naturally tend to ask, Is this true for me The disconnect is that these studies see clusters of a few motivations because a lot of people are included, but an individual person's interests have a much wider range of possible variation. In other ...
I ran into another one just tonight -- and it's our old pal Zynga again. Namely, Zynga's iOS game Scramble With Friends appears to be a direct lift of the venerable Quordy . Not only does Scramble offer zero original or innovative features beyond the basics of Quordy Facebook integration ...
Chris, while I generally agree with your first paragraph, I wonder: if someone spends their life doing things for others instead of for themselves, in what way does that not qualify as sacrificing one's life Is that less heroic because it happens over many years instead of a few seconds
Spot-on analysis. I also enjoyed RAGE, but there's been something about it that bugged me... and I think the three enjoyable but disconnected games explanation nails it. If that's accepted as being a problem, then the obvious solution is to add interactions between the systems. In fairness, I think id ...
Elegance carries connotations of both high effectiveness and high comprehensibility which is not the same thing as simplicity . E mc 2 is elegant. It captures an extraordinarily powerful fact of universal physics in a form that virtually anyone can understand. The math leading up to that final expression may ...
zpoc and Eric, you're making excuses. I fully endorse editorial commentary... in editorials clearly marked as such. And the reality that humans can't achieve perfection in anything is not and must never be a justification for not trying to make the best product possible. In serious journalism, which Gamasutra normally ...
