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    I’m one of the author’s in the 2022 opdc (didn’t win anything, still trying to bear up under the shame…

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    Thank you for this very interesting collection, and for wrestling with the obviously mixed feelings on this anniversary. And thank…

Category: Game Developers

  • Finally Caved In…

    Finally, Jonathan Morin managed to find the time to put up his blog. For those who don`t know the name, he was the Lead Level Designer on Far Cry 2 and we worked very closely together on that title for three and a half years. Maybe you know him from solid talks he gave at…

  • Live and Let Die

    So, what started as an experiment by Ben over at Sometimes Life Requires Consequence is starting to pick up steam. It's been tagged a couple times now at Game Set Watch and Kieron Gillen over at Rock Paper Shotgun blasted some buckshot his way in today's Sunday Papers. Already at least a couple other players…

  • Ethical Decision Making

    Manveer over at Design Rampage threw up his Pecha Kucha style slides, notes and audio from his GLS talk about Ethical Decision Making in games. He makes more or less the same points that I made in a similar talk back in 2004, linked here as well as in the stack on the right. PK…

  • GDC09 – Part 3 – Wines and Rants

    The last set of slides I have to put up are those for my five minute talk about game rating systems that I gave as part of Richard Lemarchand's Microtalks session on Thursday morning. Overall I really enjoyed the session – though the prep was a nightmare. I guess it's pretty easy to enjoy a session where…

  • GDC09 – Part 2 – Improvisation presentation materials

    So I promised a lot of people I would have the slides from my talk up by Monday, but then I got lazy. But finally, a whole 24 hours late, here they are. you want a quick overview of what the talk was about, Chris Remo recapped it pretty clearly here. Here's some usability tips…

  • GDC09 – Part 1 – GDW and Family Dynamics

    Here begins my long slow recap of GDC wherein I will ultimately get around to posting all of my various slides and presentation materials, as well as different commentary on the sessions I saw and what I thought was valuable about GDC this year. First up is my quick recap of the Game Design Workshop…

  • IGDA Montreal – Generations Talk

    So last night I did my talk on 'The Next Generation of Gamer' at the IGDA Montreal chapter meeting. It was fun and I was glad to have a little more time to polish and practice it after having done the talk previously at Game Design Expo in Vancouver. A lot of people asked me…

  • Full and Bright

    Two smart posts over at Steve Gaynor's blog, Fullbright. The first is his thoughts on 'storymaking'. I think it's a pretty good overview of the different levels at which the player is making his own story. I have a long comment (not approved as of this posting) that breaks down some of my own thoughts…

  • In Sid We Trust

    "You say you want a Revolution. Well, you know, we all wanna change the world." Change the world? As far as I'm concerned, for the first time since Alpha Centauri, Civilization:Revolution [2] has allowed me to do it. More than that, it has, itself, changed the world. I never played Civ or Civ 2. The first time…

  • The Nine of Spades

    If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man.You win some, lose some, it's all the same to me.The pleasure is to play, it makes no difference what you say,I don't share your greed, the only card I need is,The nine of spades!The nine of spades! Okay, so it doesn't have quite the same punch…