Archive for May, 2008
The Publisher/Game Studio Relationship
May 26th
Since the blog is called “Inside the Game Developer Studio,” I should talk a little bit about what a game studio is. A game studio is where the eternal dance between the money, the monkey, and marketroids takes place (that would be publisher, developer and marketing in layman’s terms). Given those things and add an More >
The Economic of Video Games : the royalty question
May 23rd
New York Times recently ran a story about how the voice actor for the protagonist in Grand Theft Auto IV only earned $100k for his work while the game has already grossed over $600 million. So how does the games industry reward the people who made the games? The short answer is not well. Compensation More >
MVC is just another pattern, not a Platonic ideal
May 22nd
There was been lots of discussion about the MVC pattern in the programming blogs recently. A lot of it has to do with the rise of Rails to bring MVC in the forefront of web development. What is interesting to me is that while design patterns in general have been looked down upon, somehow MVC More >
Remembering E3 : why it was the best of times and worst of times
May 22nd
Ah, E3. (the show formerly known a Electronic Entertainment Expo) Gamers know it as the avalanche of new game announcements and an orgy of screen shots and breathless coverage by the geek world at large. Here is an insightful documentary on what it was like to be at E3, which you should checkout before reading More >
Three degrees of Miyamoto
May 20th
Miyamoto, Inafune, Ian, me. That is the three degrees of separation between Miyamoto and me. There is a well known theory that everyone is connected to everyone else in the world in just six steps. There is also a trivia game that connects actors to Kevin Bacon through working together on the same movie, where More >
Welcome to Inside the Game Developer Studio
May 18th
This blog is my attempt to open the door and shed light on the game making process, from the point of the view of a game developer. Blogs about games tend to fall into two categories, “Enthusiast” and “Insider.” Enthusiast blogs are all about the games, what’s the latest and newest, and written for gamers More >