I'd be surprised if that style of game didn't have much of a future. They provide wonderful stories and messages in their own right. Having said that, I have to agree with Stevan. I'm not sure Proceduralism is going to stick. Personally, it doesn't fit right - I keep auto-defining ...
I think that Spore's DRM issue is definitely one of the top 3. Which is interesting to me, because I had no idea it even -had- DRM, it installed and ran so flawlessly. I'm glad that smaller companies like Stardock, that shirk DRM, had a chance to be smug.
This was a really great read. Like Sean, this gave me some insights on aspects I should work on. I do think designers should be playing games beyond just the one s they're working on, though. I call it research.
I'm glad I checked up on this. That's supposed to be, Games Workshop should have learned... not just should learned. They learned me good in skool, I promise.
I believe using economic analogies to help with 'class' balancing is very helpful - I for one would be very interested to hear what someone involved with a metrics system would say about it. Specifically, I'd love for them to talk about how they would use economic models to help ...
