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  Gamasutra Member Blogs: From Playing By The Rules To Not Playing By Them Exclusive
by Chris Remo [PC, Console/PC, Exclusive]
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January 26, 2010
 
Gamasutra Member Blogs: From Playing By The Rules To Not Playing By Them

In highlights from Gamasutra's Member Blogs, our weblog writers IGF submission lessons, the rules of rules, and the inevitability of prototyping.

Member Blogs can be maintained by any registered Gamasutra user, while invitation-only Expert Blogs -- also highlighted weekly -- are written by selected development professionals.

Our favorite blog post of the week will earn its author a lifetime subscription to Gamasutra's sister publication, Game Developer magazine. (All magazine recipients outside of the United States or Canada will receive lifetime electronic subscriptions.)

We hope that our blog sections can provide useful and interesting viewpoints on our industry. For more information, check out the official posting guidelines.

Here are the top member blogs for the week:

This Week's Standout Member Blogs

- Playing By The Rules
(Jake May)

Jake May is a hard-bitten, hard-nosed, hard-boiled game designer who plays by his own rules. With a heart of gold. On another note, have you ever fully considered the crucial role of the meta-game in game design? Jake May wrote an article about that.

For his effort, he will receive a lifetime subscription to Gamasutra sister publication Game Developer magazine.

- True Non-Linearity In Games
(Dolgion Chuluunbaatar)

Dude... Have you ever thought about how real life is totally, like, the most non-linear RPG of all? And how, like, a truly non-linear game requires a systematic world that works by itself, feeds from itself, the player only being a part of it,
allowing the player to express him or herself in this confined environment? Dig it, man.

- Spoof of Concept, or Why Prototyping is Fraught With Peril
(Jacek Wesolowski)

Prototyping is so integral to game development that it's happening pretty much all the time. In fact, you're probably prototyping right now. The prototype is iterating from inside the house.

- Lessons learned while submitting to IGF (part II)
(Daniel Silber)

From the creator of "Lessons learned while submitting to IGF" comes the thrilling, darker sequel: "Lessons learned while submitting to IGF (part II)." Can our hero, independent video game developer Daniel Silber, weather a failure to place in the world-famous Independent Games Festival, armed with judges' feedback and lessons learned the hard way? Watch Silber turn tragedy into triumph this summer in a theater near you right now on a blog.

- I Have Been On a Podcast: Building On Online "Presence"
(Kimberly Unger)

Okay, so that's not actually the title of this blog post. I just couldn't bring myself to reproduce it accurately.
 
   
 
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Glenn Storm
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[unrelated comment removed] And, what? No love for pseudo-science? ;) It's okay, this is a subjective selection, I understand. Still, I'd be very interested to see someone from Gamasutra staff comment on the Sentiology post. Without it, I'm getting the impression you all wish it never appeared on this site.

Jacek Wesolowski
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Thanks for the mention. That piece serves as an introduction, so the content is fairly basic; the rest of the series is mostly tales from the trenches (and a bit of ranting). I thought they may be worth sharing, because there's still a lot of improvisation going on in the industry, even in large projects by respected developers. New posts are currently scheduled to appear daily for the next two weeks. Hope you'll like them. :-)

Simon Carless
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Glenn, we're reading it, but honestly, it's quite _heavy_, even for us. Maybe if you did less posts but with more detail? Daily is quite... intense!

Glenn Storm
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I appreciate your response Simon. I think there was one week with daily posts, but generally there were days between each relatively short post over the seven weeks. I saw other features, news posts and blogs before, during and after the presentation that appeared to tread similar ground with a similar tone. That led me to believe it was a good fit, but perhaps not. I'll just chalk it up to experience. :) I appreciated being able to present it nevertheless. Thank you.

Jake May
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What a lovely write up! But please, who told you about my heart of gold? I'm going to have to upgrade my security...

Cheers for the subscription - how does that work?


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