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Comment In: Veronica Mars has opened the doors to a new kind of game funding [News - 03/18/2013 - 03:06]

Kickstarter is a business first ...

Kickstarter is a business first and foremost. If necessary, they 'll change the FAQ/rules to make it clear that stuff like the Veronica Mars is perfectly fine because they 're making good money off of it.

Comment In: Awe of the Indies [Blog - 03/11/2013 - 05:18]

Everybody has to start somewhere. ...

Everybody has to start somewhere. r n r nMy first game looked like this: http://www.angelfire.com/games/rboyd/rainbow2.html r n r nWhat I 'm currently working on looks like this: http://zeboyd.com/2013/02/20/penny-arcades-on-the-rain-slick-precipice-of-darkness-4-news-and-screenshots-battles-monster-allies-and-world-map/

Comment In: Opinion: Why I won't be backing Kickstarters anymore [News - 03/04/2013 - 09:19]

Well, I 've always liked ...

Well, I 've always liked a challenge. Now, it won 't be enough to just make a bunch of money with our kickstarter later this year - I have to earn back Mike 's support. :

Comment In: Let's talk about Steam opening up [News - 02/28/2013 - 03:42]

People complain about advertising influencing ...

People complain about advertising influencing the media but wouldn 't it be much, much worse as far as media impartiality goes if all the major media sites reviewers had their own Steam store r n r nIGN Review of Assassin 's Creed XII - 10/10 Perfect Score Click here to ...

Comment In: 'Kickstarter is starting to wear itself out. It’s a numbers game.' [News - 02/14/2013 - 01:48]

Well... to be clear, the ...

Well... to be clear, the layoffs did not happen until well after the Kickstarter campaign began and not until after it was obvious it would fail . r n r nThe layoffs happened during the first week of the kickstarter.

Comment In: Staying Creative in a Franchise World: The Darryl Principle [Blog - 02/14/2013 - 09:50]

So it 's more of ...

So it 's more of the mentality of Let 's make a big budget iPad game that 's tailored to touch controls rather than the actual design. Okay, I can see that.

Comment In: Gabe Newell's vision for Steam: More choice, more democracy, less Greenlight [News - 02/06/2013 - 03:14]

Right now, Steam sits at ...

Right now, Steam sits at a happy medium between extremely curated storefronts like XBLA and anarchy like we see in the mobile space. If they don 't tread carefully here, they could ruin that delicate balance.

Comment In: Strategy Games Are Broken [Blog - 02/05/2013 - 03:40]

Several strategy games do the ...

Several strategy games do the whole AI gangs up on the person in the lead and I think that approach doesn 't work very well. It makes the player feel like the computer is cheating against them and not playing fair.

Comment In: Opinion: It's totally OK to not like 'anti-games' [News - 02/01/2013 - 11:50]

I think I figured out ...

I think I figured out what really bothers me about this whole debate. It 's not that some people like things that I don 't - that 's to be expected. It 's the idea that a game has to challenge the very concept of being a game to be ...

Comment In: Torchlight 2 Vs. Diablo 3: ARPG Fight 2012 [Blog - 01/25/2013 - 02:22]

From what I 've played ...

From what I 've played of each I included Titan Quest as well since that was my favorite hack slash RPG before the recent batch of new ones ... r n r nCharacter Design Path of Exile Titan Quest Diablo 3 Torchlight 2 r nLoot Path of Exile Titan Quest ...

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