Posts tagged games industry
I Didn’t Join the Video Games Industry to Make Glorified Random Number Generators
Mar 8th
I said that last night while discussing the state of Flash/Facebook games with my friend David. Cracked.com has a great article explaining some of the techniques video games use to keep players engaged.
Notice that I said engaged, not entertained. They are two different things. Games used to want players to have fun so they will More >
Why the Games Industry Needs E3
Jul 19th
Apprently it is news to some people that E3 is dead. I wrote my own eulogy to E3 a couple of month ago, around the time E3 is suppose to take place. The real E3, not whatever just happened last week.
E3 was important to the industry because it represented gaming as a “Culture” and that’s 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 >
Why Sky High Development Budget is Good for Publishers
Jun 22nd
The cost of developing a game has increased exponentially over the past few years. The first game I worked, ‘The Punisher,’ had a development budget of six million dollars. I would say that’s in the middle range of development cost during that time.
Nowadays, just marketing a high profile game will cost that much, with twenty 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 >
The Games Industry Needs More Competence Not ‘Innovation’
Jun 12th
One of the perennial complaints leveled against the games industry is that the industry is ‘Stagnant’ and needs more ‘Innovation.’
I’ve fallen into that train of thought myself a couple of years ago during the period known as ‘The Time of Brown Military Shooters.’
Gradually, I came to another realization, what I really want to see is 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 really 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 >