I enjoyed this article. I'd like to add another reference: http://blog.ihobo.com/2011/10/player-typology-in-theory-and-practice.html There they argue in the paper that Bartle's typology isn't well suited for current games and then they propose another model. However, I don't necessarily agree with the paper's claim of not being suitable since in the end, it's ...
I think that both criticisms, too much I and no metric could expose the problem and your answers point out an underlying common problem: time to execute and desired results trade offs. It's not that there is no metric to expose the problem, you can design one tracking the needed ...
Another big challenge of transitioning to a free to play business model is to build the whole infrastructure to provide in-game content updates and change of games from products to services. Console makers can design SDK's and support all the in-game content updates thing, but they can't convince publishers right ...
What if the crunch isn't as big as claimed let's say, 10 hours each week day and half Saturday, or even no crunch at all, and the guy just tweeted that to brag about his people's commitment and just get ALL this buzz
I agree with Adam Bishop: The cultural aspect of grunge it's just too big to ignore, making the analogy a little bit flawed. Specially when there's already a good concept to describe the key useful insights exposed by Alan Failde: Disruptive Innovations: http://www.claytonchristensen.com/disruptive innovation.html
I think it's weird that nobody mentioned this talk at Austing GDC last year: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news index.php story 20249 A Generative, Adaptive Music System for MMO Games And I quote from there about this thing being hard to sell But Larson thinks that it's merely a matter of how you pitch. ...
In Chile it's the same picture, games and consoles are quite expensive, specially considering the cost of living and the distribution of salaries in the population. The price for the Wii, for example. It's currently US 482 at a local retail store 1 , but using real money as currency, ...
