Architecture of evil

Thought provoking read on the architecture of evil in videogame design. Found on BDLGBLOG:

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/evil-lair-on-architecture-of-enemy-in.html

FEZ

IGS 2007 - 'Innovation in Indie Games'

'Innovation in Indie Games'

Ready Set... Point and Click

I have always been a fan of point and click adventure games (especially the Monkey Island series) so I have devoted some time today to play Double Fines new mini game to comemorate Tim Schafer hosting the GDA Choice awards... I thought i'd share. (if anyone can find the 22nd joke you are a better man than me, I have one half of a joke on a sticky note left). It is amazing what you can do inside a browser game...

(It is well worth leaving the room when you have no jokes, then with some... i couldn't tell you what happens when you have all of them)

X48 and Game Jamming

I thought that i would draw the class' attention to this event that has been running this weekend... The X48 GameCamp at the University of Derby. I have been following this as it has developed over the weekend after latching onto it as it flew by on my blog dashboard of updates from Wonderland. As an event closely relating to the idea of Indie Game Jams and the Global Game Jam discussed in the first session.

I am not sure how i feel about the corporate sponsorship of these sorts of indie events as it seems to fit somewhere between "Cool Hunting" and good publicity.

I think one of the things that is so interesting is the use of web 2.0 technologies to publicise the event and follow its progress (YouTube, twitter, blogging, facebook, Flicker, daytum, Last.FM play lists).

(I think we could all learn a little from this approach)

I think that it is also interesting to see the idea of a Jam with XNA rather than Flash or the ipod dev tools seen at a lot of other Jams.

David Jaffe - Youtube Videos

Hi People

Alan has sent me a link on my blog for a selection of Videos created by David Jafee (Sony Developer and God Of War 1 director).

All of them can be found on his youtube account and just wanted to share then with the rest of the group to see what they think, he punts on videos like a Video Blog and ofter answers viewers questions that have been left on the video page.

They are rearly good and give you in insight to his life and current work load. you can find the videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/spidey999

200 bravely battled the gaming masses!

Hey if anyone doesn't knows Edge magazine's next issue is its 200th. To celebrate they are doing a special 200th issue cover for people with subscription's created by Media Molecule. As for everyone else Edge is doing something pretty crazy considering traditional print media is struggling at the moment. They are putting out 199 different covers featuring various video games/ characters from gaming's vast history. Its a pretty exciting thing to look at and I'm sure you'll find one person in the UK who gonna try and "catch em all" with a plush Pikachu doll on their shoulder. Heres a link to Edge Online where you can view the special covers in pretty high quality, as for the cover on this post I'm just a sucker for Advance Wars :), god I hope i find it!

http://www.edge-online.com/news/edge-200-issues

Auditorium

I know that innovation isn't exactly the best place to go at the moment as a topic and it is all a little touch and go, (i think that maybe things have got a little "blue sky" so they will be reined back in this week... but before i do...) here is a game i wanted to share, I thought it would be appropriate as we have people that have joined us from the music module. This is one of my all time favorite browser games.

Auditorium

Reading (Week 5)

This weeks reading to support the in session work is...

Rohrer J. (2008) The Game Design of Art, The Escapist Magazine, 24 Jun 2008 [Available at: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_155/4987-The-Game-Design-of-Art]

Psychophysiological Analysis

Quo Vadis 2008: Focus on your players - Interaction and Psychophysiology Talk

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