Tag Archives: gamedev.net

Jul
16
2009

Game Design Round Table 3: Observing Open Worlds

Round Table Topic
When I was coming up with a topic for this round table, I realized that I quickly went back to thinking about all of the games I have been playing over the last few weeks: Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Infamous, Prototype, and Skate 2. All of these games have a [...]

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Jun
01
2009

Game Design Round Table 2: Achievement Unlocked

Round Table Topic
Everyone likes candy. Diabetics or people on a strict diet may nay-say such a statement but, for the rest of us, a bit of candy here and there is a little treat composed solely of sugar and happiness. Achievements in video games are similar class to a piece of candy. Players can gain [...]

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Apr
29
2009

Game Design Design Roundtable 1: The Death of Death

Round Table Topic
There has been a slow and steady progression of the role that death plays in video games since the days of Ghouls and Ghosts and Super Mario Bros. No longer are most games tied to the old tenet of providing a player with an arbitrary number of lives, typically three for some reason, [...]

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Apr
22
2009

Stuff

I don’t have any original thoughts that can fill out an entire piece this week, so this is going to just be a combination of various things I’m doing. Most notably to anyone that’s visiting this site and had permanent links to my old gallery: it’s broken. The database seemed to randomly go all corrupt [...]

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Apr
16
2009

Game Design Round Table 0: No More Health

Over the last couple of months I’ve been nurturing an idea to hold a sort of casual attempt at a game design round table where I (or another organizer) would present a topic (and some basic information and potential arguments) to a group of independent or professional game designers. Everyone involved would then be let [...]

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Jun
03
2008

GameDev.net

So, yeah, I realize I absolutely fail at updating my own site; luckily, though, I’m excellent at updating other peoples’ sites. Like GameDev.net where I can be found writing news entries that have been described as distinctly me (which works out well).
Anyway, here are links to the last nine as of the night of this [...]

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Apr
17
2008

Chronicles of Cloud (and Bipolar)

I’ve been playing a very time-intensive game of musical chairs with various three-dee engines over the course of the last two-and-a-half weeks in an attempt to find the one that would be best suited to my particular development style and the kind of game I want to create. And I can safely say that, tonight, [...]

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