Owner and Design Director of Fishing Cactus (http://www.fishingcactus.com).
I'll update this blog with recent news and thoughts about game design, game programming, management(SCRUM) inside Fishing Cactus but also with other game related news.
These days it’s a common thing to read quotes like “the game is overpriced for what it offers”, “the game should have a campaign, without it, I’m not buying it”, “really, only 50 levels?”.
As designers we are always looking for the best tool to communicate our ideas. At Fishing Cactus we always try to come up with collaborative solutions and we try to keep the following motto: "not make a 100 pages design document".
Equilibrio iPhone is out for 12 weeks now and despite good reviews (from both press and users), highlights from Apple and quite high production values for an iPhone game, our title only sold only a few thousands units. Let's try to analyze this!
After reading Damion Schubert’s excellent article on pooling ideas in May 2008's Game Developer magazine, something came immediately on our mind: the problem, with designers, is not exactly the will to get ideas from everyone but how they gather it.
I agree with a lot of comments made here. However when a platform cannot guarantee volumes, it makes it very hard for a developer to go there at a very low price. This automatically makes me think that platforms which don't make huge volume will just disappear from the market ...
Just top of my head mimicking day to day use of SCRUM war room and card boards is already a good use of Kinect to manipulate cards and tag them especially when you have to talk to others at the same time . I remember using Hansoft on a projector ...
Hello Tyler, we'll try this strategy but I fear that lowering the price for a week doesn't have a really high impact because the title isn't visible at all. @Eyal Thanks for purchasing the Wiiware version glad you liked it :
