What’s Up With Peter Molyneux?
Peter Molyneux… For many young hopefuls who are eager to earn their gray hairs before the age of 25, the name Peter Molyneux doesn’t ring much of a bell. Most game designers going through school...
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The Cycle: One Cake, 762 Layers
Customer: “Oh hello there. I’d like to buy a cake.” Salesman: “We have a wide selection behind our counter here…” Customer: “…no. You see I need a cake that looks like that one. But I need it for...
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The Misconception of Core Teams
Having worked in the same place for nearly a decade tends to give you some perspective on the life cycle of a small business. I’ve found that every 2-3 years a fresh crop of engineers are hired and a...
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It Sucks To Be You
In honor of the DOOM teaser recently released, I have an announcement. If you are a gamer and you weren’t part of my generation… It sucks to be you. Imagine each and every year of your young gamer...
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The Life of Peter and Peppa Pan
I am fully aware that I’m probably going to get a lot of flak for this one but I encourage that you read it completely and take a day to think about it. Let’s face it, entertainment is suffering from a...
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Nintendo In A Perfect World
Nintendo is a strange company. They are highly unpredictable in spite of the fact that much of what they do is based on predictable patterns. I grew up with Nintendo, and much of what they do has...
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Has Unity3D Made Me Unemployable?
“That’s the thing about these video games, we get older, they stay the same age; yes they do, yes they do.” Though video games will mostly be stuck in a certain time in history (an argument for...
View ArticleWhy Nintendo Is Down on Metroid
Metroid’s Troubled Childhood If you get into the history of Metroid as a franchise, you’ll find some pretty sad stuff. It’s creator Gunpei Yokoi was pushed down the ranks, stripped of his titles...
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Sleep well Satoru Iwata-san
I sat down last night, fully expecting to squeeze in a couple more chapters of Fire Emblem on my 3DS before bed. Instead I checked my Twitter feed and saw one very short tweet breaking the news gently...
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The World-System of Game Development
The industry has exploded into the behemoth katamari of entertainment that it is today, consuming, absorbing, ever-changing… But what did it take to get this far, to advance this much in such a short...
View ArticleI’m Just Not That Into You
To be perfectly honest, getting old sucks. You don’t realize until you are well into your late 30’s or early 40’s that life is but a series of obstacles that only get taller with age. It is the...
View ArticleReviewers, Get Off of Bethesda’s Teet
Well.. it’s here. We’ve reached that point in the timeline of our existence where another Bethesda game appears, buckling under the weight of it’s own good intentions. Reviews are showing up online...
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The Uncanny Interview
Video games are big business. Ubisoft, EA, Activision; no one is exempt from using multiple studios, each employing hundreds of people, to get a single product to ship. Even indie studios have...
View ArticleWhat’s Up With Peter Molyneux?
Peter Molyneux… For many young hopefuls who are eager to earn their gray hairs before the age of 25, the name Peter Molyneux doesn’t ring much of a bell. Most game designers going through school...
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The Cycle: One Cake, 762 Layers
Customer: “Oh hello there. I’d like to buy a cake.” Salesman: “We have a wide selection behind our counter here…” Customer: “…no. You see I need a cake that looks like that one. But I need it for...
View ArticleHigh Hopes, Low Expectations
Well.. It happened.. Nintendo squeezed in a small mention of NX and the Internet ate it up like free lunch. I admit that I’m excited to see what it is, much like a present under a Christmas tree....
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The NX Theory
Out with the Old The popular theory of what exactly the NX will be is some form of hybrid handheld-at-home console. I’ve struggled to accept this for many reasons: Handheld devices are powered by...
View ArticleThe Digital Noise is Deafening
Paralyzing… That’s probably the closest word that comes to mind whenever I think about video games these days. I’m happy to have a mostly empty backlog of games, but it came at a huge price. I...
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White Heterosexual Power Fantasies
Game design is hard. Sure, there are a number of easy routes to game design. We could all say, “Like that other game but 10% more jazz hands..” and it we’d probably expect a certain level of success...
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Curb Your Enthusiasm
Admittedly, after typing the subject of this post my mind suddenly went to a different place. I was reminded of an old show of the same name, but something about that TV series still feels relevant...
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