The science fiction novel from the 80's The Moon Goddess and the Sun by Donald Kingsbury suggested that the Soviet Union could be subverted through the dissemination of a video game through the USSR. Maybe someone in Iran thought it was a planning document
I'm convinced that the main reason Adventure Games have faded is that they are perhaps the only game genre that doesn't show the user incremental progress towards their goal. People have tried graduated hints and other methods, but ultimately puzzles tend to devolve to either you get it or you ...
Erin, great article. Having been doing work in this field myself for many years, I've accumulated quite a few interesting contacts and corroborative detail that others here may find interesting. Here are a few highlights from former clients: There's a huge potential for games using neurofeedback to treat ADD/ADHD. I ...
I'd bet Glu's reasoning is that if only .1 of their users buy it, and in doing so, drive away a third of their remaining audience, it's still worth it. And besides, they'll probably go after each other.
There's a problem here. You say The latest salvo comes from Brian Moriarty and his GDC lecture claiming that games are not art . PLEASE read what he actually said at http://www.ludix.com/moriarty/apology.html and you will see he repeatedly states, assumes, and confirms that GAMES ARE ART. he says they are ...
Whether you believe in the theory of this being a good thing, in practice their information, even on very high profile people, was both incredibly incomplete and often terribly misleading. Given what I saw, if they took the same approach to rating movie people, Steven Spielberg would be rated only ...
I've been in the industry for 31 years, worked on hundreds of titles, and they have a grand total of one score from a game I consulted on for a single week. That's one week in about 1618. Not exactly stunning accuracy.
