Posts tagged bioshock
Learning from Alan Kay, 11 years later
Aug 30th
I first saw this video on reddit about a year ago, a famous talk by Alan Kay given about 11 years ago. I’ve watched it many times and each time understanding it a bit more.
The first time I watched it, I found his proposal that every object on the internet should have an URI and/or More >
Cast of Characters pt 2 : the Broken
Jul 2nd
If you want to work in the games industry, know that it is filled with geeky guys. Be prepared to put up with a certain amount of ‘eccentricities.’ In this series, I offer up a sampling of the types of people you might meet in your journey.
Last time I talked about the ‘Burnout’, this time More >
Make Better Games by Reducing Interactivity
Jun 29th
Most people believe that interactivity is what separates games from other kinds of media, so how can you make games better by taking away that advantage?
Back when we were creating the interface on BioShock, Ken was the one who always pushed for a simpler interface. The main method we used was to remove options from More >
Cast of Characters pt 1 : the Burnout
Jun 18th
If you want to work in the games industry, know that it is filled with geeky guys. Be prepared to put up with a certain amount of ‘eccentricities.’ In this series, I offer up a sampling of the types of people you might meet in your journey.
The first personality I’d like to talk about is More >
Dear Developers: button layout loading screens must go
Jun 9th
I recently downloaded a bunch of demos from the Playstation Store to check out some of the games I’ve missed. After playing through a bunch of them, I noticed that all of them included a loading screen that tells you what each of the buttons do, the “Button Layout” screen.
Here is an example of a More >
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 extra 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 the 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 looking More >