We see a bit of the punk aesthetic of Make a game. Express yourself. Never be limited by your internal critiques or the critiques of others r n r nThere are a couple points of typical conflict here: r n r n1 Revolutionary vs Establishment r nAnyone who is established ...
We tend to anthropomorphize companies. The reality is that companies never learn. Instead the people learn. r n r nIn large companies, those newly educated people are rarely on the same teams from project to project. Things get mixed up due to politics, economics and general churn. So the institutional ...
Mostly I concern myself with effectiveness. You are 'allowed ' to yell at a wall that fish are Satan 's fry. It often is not a very effective means of causing positive change in the world. And due to a lack of personal or statistically valid knowledge, the problem that ...
This sort of moment by moment analysis how how the player is reacting to mechanics is how good game designers operate. r n r nThe wonderful thing about prototyping new mechanics is that 'common sense ' fails are surprising percentage of the time. Only by picking apart the experiments do ...
A bit late to this. I would say that for the games I 've worked on, the majority 90-95 of traffic comes from non-press and non-PR activities. Press is one of the most publicly visible forms of outreach to informed folks like ourselves, but for online games it provides a ...
So the general idea is correct. The exact reasons listed are a little off. Various new markets are maturing and this is closing down opportunities for smaller developers. Cheap distribution is getting either expensive or is heavily gated. r n r nThere are notable exceptions to all these trends, but ...
Appreciate the write up r n r nMinor detail: The first game covered is 'Bunni ' and you can still play it here: http://bunnibunni.com/ The forums are sadly offline at this point due to years of escalating spam attacks
One of my personal design challenges is designing games without shooting. So far I 've managed to get Fishing Girl, Bunni, Triple Town and Panda Poet out. Some have cartoon violence in the form of bombs and evil deer, but none are what most players would consider viscerally violent. r ...
Hmm...this is a great example of an article justifying a personal or mob opinion without a lot of basis in fact or personal experience. r n r nIssues: r n1 Include a variety of successful F2P games Team Fortress 2 for example or try to make one yourself. r n ...
