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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 Industry

  • I Stand Corrected – partly

    Just yesterday I blogged that Patrick Dugan had provided a very insightful critique/analysis of the game Ayiti: The Cost of Life, and I complained that it was "a shame more games are not reviewed or critiqued with such insight". Next thing you know, Jurie, over at Intelligent-Artifice points to Ian Bogost’s brilliant critique of Bully,…

  • Bye Bye Giant Robot

    Jason Della Rocca has moved his blog Reality Panic, and in the process has done a redesign of the site. I will miss the giant robot.

  • Post Futureplay Podcast Interview

    Dave Brodbeck, a psychology professor at Algoma U, who I met at Futureplay also does a podcast. He grabbed me after my keynote there and we did a little interview. You can listen to it here, or download it for direct from this link. Good questions and good interview, thanks Dave. It’s good to have…

  • 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)…

  • Givin’ Mario the Smackdown

    The new IGN Readers Choice list of the Top 100 games of all time just pegged Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory at #18. That puts it one ahead of Super Mario 64 (suck it down plumber-boy), and one behind GTA: San Andreas – which in my honest opinion should be a lot higher than 17th. They…

  • 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…

  • 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…