It 's timely that this is going up now, Kent just announced an interesting game he 's working on independently, The Novelist : r nhttp://www.thenovelistgame.com/
Thanks for writing this, I think it 's one of the most important design articles I 've read in years, and should inform the thinking of every game designer. This is all especially important for the prototyping process, i.e. finding a new type of fun gameplay. r n r nBoth ...
I just recently blogged about my current obsession, which is understanding the game-design ecosystem through Scott McCloud 's lens of 4 Tribes of Artists : r nhttp://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ShayPierce/20130221/187115/Game Designers and the Four Tribes of Artists.php r n r nI think this article fits in in an interesting way... Academics are generally ...
I 'm not sure how the title Game Designers and the Four Tribes of Artists left you expecting that I was about to take the piss out of indies, and disappointed you when I instead talked about game designers and the four tribes of artists... r n r nSo. Aren ...
Yes you should expand this into a blog post r n r nI think that AAA games are more like summer blockbuster movies than TV shows I also think that casual Facebook games are more like cheap lowest-common-denominator TV shows. I also think those things are Classicist and Animist fields ...
My reaction isn 't aww, it 's sad that he got so close to success My reaction is: holy crap, I can 't believe he came this close to a nightmare scenario for himself and everyone else involved r n r nI hate to rag on an independent creator who ...
Apple doesn 't allow In-App Purchases to be pure donations not sure what their policies are for linking to an external donation website or something like that, but I wouldn 't be surprised if they reject apps for doing that as well. r n r nI keep expecting some of ...
Although I 'm glad that I dodged this bullet, I 'd like to express my dismay over all this. A lot of good, talented developers have been left jobless with little warning. r n r nTo make it clear what the situation looks like for devs on the ground here ...
In theory the role Gameplay Programmer DOESN 'T involve creative control in theory it 's just a programmer implementing a design document written by a designer the designer will then work with the implemented system, setting variables and creating content. r n r nBut in practice, whether anyone wants it ...
