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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

  • #$%& Fun

    How the hell did I miss this? A year or so ago it started to dawn on me that there were problems with the notion of fun. At first, I started ot think that maybe ‘fun’ was merely a formal quality of games – the same way rhyme and meter were formal qualities of poetry.…

  • Wiinning Strategies?

    Following up on my recent blathering-on about the Wii and about LiveMove, Patrick over at King Lud IC scratches his head about the business case for casual games on the Wii. I’m about as far as one can be from a casual games developer. I think the kinds of numbers he’s talking about are close…

  • That old man’s just a crazy old wizard

    My good buddy and co-worker at Ubi, Ben Mattes has finally got himself a blog over at www.toomuchimagination.blogspot.com, a name he craftily lifted from www.toomuchimagination.ca, which is the design challenge we’re promoting along side our current recruiting campaign. Ben was the producer on Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, and his current project (like mine)…

  • Glory Days

    Here’s one for David Sirlin: Imagine if those terribly cliche game characters retired to become terribly cliche real people. I was always a huge fan of Dhalsim, even though from what I learned in Becoming the Champion, (reviewed here) he was a pretty bad choice if you actually cared about winning.

  • A Fearsome Foursome

    So I’m glad to see that something good came out of E3. MTV hosted The Game Designer’s Roundtable which they now have hosted here. It’s a roundtable style discussion of some hot topics in the industry featuring Harvey Smith, Will Wright, David Jaffe and Cliff Blezinski. Every one of these guys is something of a…

  • Zero Sum Zanshin and the Tao of Low Strong

    So I haven’t posted in about a week because my free time has been pretty much obliverated, but I had to get on here and post my thoughts on David Sirlin’s book Becoming the Champion. This is not a book I would have picked up on my own, and the only reason I read it…

  • Self-Pimpage

    Holy cow… I’m floored. Just found out I somehow got stuck on next-gen dot biz’s Top 100 Game Developers list. I started this post by trying to put a few of the really big names that everyone knows and then saying ‘how did I end up on that list?’… but even my short summary of…