Best 10 bucks I've spent in a long while. Thanks for writing the article. I'd like to drop the 'casual' and 'hard-care' monikers all together. Neither one helps define the demographics, and worse they pigeon-hole some publishers into certain design mentalities that are injurious to the creative process. If Pop-cap ...
The musical analogy is one that I try to use in every level I make. I draw flow diagrams before I start anything else. Basically a beat chart that is the backbone of my musical piece/level. I then fill all the valleys, troughs and mountain peaks with little musical bits ...
@Stone Bytes If anything, the recession may be the push the industry needed to lay off the old ways, and move towards the flexibility granted by intelligent outsourcing, orbiting core studios. I'm sorry, but I take a credible amount of offense to this statement. Forgive me if I'm reading this ...
@ F. Taloots Marghezeeeele Money doesn't grow on trees, it has to be earned... and EA isn't earning any money at the moment, they are bleeding. I'm sorry no disrespect intended, but the article stated that revenue was up 214 million and losses up by 115. Sounds like a positive ...
My preferred approach to game design, the player-centric approach, calls for the designer to envision a representative player and to accept a duty to empathize with that player. Whether this article speaks to the Tao or not statements made within, like the one quoted above are valuable and bare repeating. ...
I found this study very helpful and nothing to be afraid of. I hear the distant cry of ego when I see people say that these metrics, tools and thought experiments are pushing us away from a creative Mecca and instead lead us towards a future of desaturated fun. Truly ...
