In teaching game design, I 've had to expand my personal canon several times. I play action-adventure/RPG games my students mostly play first person shooters. I 've spent my fair share of time on Youtube looking up gameplay videos trying to figure out what the heck a student means by ...
Sebastian, I 'm having trouble accessing your links. It looks like http://www.thwacke.com starts all of them. Example from the youtube video you recommend: the link leads to http://www.thwacke.com/analysis/ C2 94http://www.youtube.com/watch v 7v0c0Al5X0g C2 94 , which results in a 404 error. Removing the http://www.thwacke.com/analysis/ C2 94 resolves the problem.
And, predictably, many of the article 's comments focus on her looks rather than her abilities or what 's happening at Valve or even that she just lost her job. :P
It 's possible to construct a game using PowerPoint. PowerPoint has hyperlink capabilities, which mean it has branching possibilities. One of the instructors at my school has beginning students set up an adventure-type game using PowerPoint. They get a sense of structure and rules without needing much in the way ...
For some people, the achievements are greater than the game. I was stunned by a comment on a game board once the player said that his understanding of when a game ended had evolved, that a game wasn 't finished until 100 of the achievements had been achieved. I can ...
I think comic book writing lends itself to training you to write dialogue for games... r n r nThis comment made me happy. For the past couple of years, I 've been teaching typography to gaming students at my university. One of the things I do is bring in some ...
What he said. I actually blinked at that part in the article because I thought I 'd misread it. r n r nOne of the things I hammer home to my students is proximity. Things that relate to each other should be close together. The gap between text and bars ...
