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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

  • Virtual Minefields

    This amusing story of how Minesweeper was updated for Vista floated across my desk the other day. The post is a year old now, but worth a read. With all the effort we expend trying to expand our audience beyond the rather easy-to-please domain of teenage boys and young men, I wonder how much we…

  • Braid goes Live

    It’s already floating around a couple other places, but I wanted to make sure to post it here too, since I was late to the party the last time people got to talking about Braid. The MTV interview really impressed me, and I’ve had dinner a couple of times with Jon in the last year…

  • Narrative and Flow

    Although I have not seen the presentation myself, nor had the chance to look at the slides and notes, Pat is back from Austin and he’s posted the materials from his talk. By all accounts it went well, hopefully we’ll find an hour when we’re not putting out fires (or starting them) so he can…

  • I’m not in Austin

    But Pat is. Pat is the Narrative Designer on my project, and has been busting his ass for the last 2+ years to do all the nuts and bolts work of making this crazy dynamic interactive narrative we dreamed up for Far Cry 2 actually work. He’ll be sharing some (but nowhere near all) of…

  • Rapture Comes to Montreal

    If the player ever asks himself "I wonder if I can do X?", the answer had better be "Yes". That’s one of the mantras of my design team. Basically it means that your game invites the player to ask questions about what he can and cannot do, and if you are inviting him to ask…

  • Vederman – continued

    Wow. So just one week ago today I blogged about Greg Vederman’s editorial in the October issue of PC Gamer. That editorial turns out to have been his last, as he just announced his departure from PC Gamer magazine – a seat he has held for something like a decade – to go and work…

  • Vederman Throws Down the Gauntlet

    So for those who don’t already know, my game grabbed the cover of PC Gamer (US) for our exclusive unveiling. It’s the October Issue, on shelves now. It’s packed with details, well written, and I think the smart lay-out really leverages some of the look and feel elements we’re shooting for in the game, which…

  • Reading Between the Lines

    Smarty-pants Jane over at Game Girl Advance picks the bones clean on my last post and gets to one of the points I only managed to gloss over – that of procedural literacy and how us folks who create in this medium need to be ‘literate’ in the ‘language’ of systems before we can express…

  • Smith -vs- God

    Well, I guess if you really believe in abdicating authorship, disagreeing with the church is as good a place as any to draw the line given that they’ve thrown in their chips with the biggest author of ’em all. Sarcasm aside, I’m glad Harvey stood up and fired back on this, because this whole thing…

  • Gamasutra Interview

    So immediately following my GDC presentation, I did an interview with Bonnie Ruberg from Gamasutra, which is now up on their site. It goes into a few more details about the talk, and Bonnie also asked a few good questions about gender issues in exploration… some stuff I hadn’t thought much about.