Valve’s Gabe Newell was on Good Game recently and brought up a topic close to my heart; community funded games. This is where the community (gamers) all chip in small amounts of money to fund a game, rather than a single large publisher. The question is, will it work? (more…)
Today I’ve got another game developer interview. This time with Simon Neech (The Sneech). The Sneech is a game designer at Fuzzyeyes and used to work with me at Auran. Please feel free to comment with any further questions as he visits regularly.
A bunch of my friends are working on Edge of Twilight at Fuzzyeyes (the first game studio I worked at). They have a new video out which is quite impressive. Check it out here. I’m hoping to have an interview with a couple of the developers in the coming months. Fuzzyeyes is one of the few game studios remaining in Brisbane so I hope things move along smoothly for them.
I’ve previously talk about creating a good game GUI design. Today I’d like to hear from you. I’m interested in what people are currently using to mock up their in-game GUI’s and what they would like to see from a product to help them. Please add a comment to this blog, or email me directly with your thoughts. Below are some specific questions: (more…)
Left 4 Dead 2 was announced at E3 this year. A group of disgruntled gamers have since started a boycott of the game. I don’t want to speak about the specifics of the boycott, but instead, touch on what this means for the games industry.
Have you ever played an underwhelming game? It might be a lack of choice, depth, emergence or fun. Today I’m going to discuss why many games lack that key ingredient to succeed, giving specific examples of how Dawn of War II (DOWII) and Battlefield Heroes (BH) both miss the mark. I’ll finish up by giving you an exercise to find out whether your game is underwhelming.
Have you ever written perfect code? If so, how often does this happen? If not, why not, and do you think it’s possible? Perfect code is something that many developers strive for but few, if any, achieve. In this entry, I will discuss the set of requirements that must be met for a developer to be in a position to write perfect code.
I’ve worked with a lot of awesome people in the games industry. I’ve learned a lot from these people and I thought a great way of sharing their knowledge and wisdom would be to start a game developer spotlight. This is my first attempt, I’m interested in people’s feedback. I worked with Greg on Battlestar Galactica and on an unreleased title before leaving Auran. (more…)
So a few months ago I posted about resigning and how I was planning to set up a software development company. It’s now a little over 6 months later and I thought I’d give everyone an update on how things are going. Walter and I formed Opticode late last year and have been busy making ASP.NET, .NET and Silverlight applications for quite a few clients around Brisbane. I’m still doing some game development contract work where I’m currently helping with the development of a multi-threaded renderer as well as some C# tools development.
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