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Interview: Cow Clicker Yields Ruminations On Social Gaming’s Tense Battle Lines

30
Jul

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Academic, author and game designer Ian Bogost is a little bit worried that his latest game, Cow Clicker -- a simple Facebook title simply about clicking on cows -- might receive more attention than anything he's done to date. If that turns out to be th...

Tags: Academic, Clicker, Cow, cows, date, designer, Game, game designer, ian bogost, interview, irony, little bit, Ruminations, satire, social gaming, sort, Tense, tense battle, turn

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Maryland Declares September 21 ‘Civilization V Day’

29
Jul

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The state of Maryland has officially recognized local developer Firaxis' Sid Meier's Civilization V by naming the day of its release after the game itself. As dictated by a gubernatorial proclamation, September 21, 2010 will be known as "Sid Meier's Ci...

Tags: Civilization, Declares, designer, Firaxis, Game, legendary designer, martin o malley, Marylander, proclamation, professional life, Sid Meier, State, state of maryland, Studio, today

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Spector: Meaningful Choice Is Audience-Friendly

23
Jul

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Deep gameplay won't scare off players, says veteran designer Warren Spector. In a new Gamasutra feature interview, he champions player choice as more expansive and rewarding for a wide audience. "From the day I started really thinking about this consci...

Tags: audience, Choice, designer, designer warren spector, feature interview, Gamasutra, Game, Gameplay, interview, Meaningful, meaningful choice, player, problem, veteran, veteran designer, way

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Feature: How Meaningful Skills And Activity Statements Improve Your Designs

21
Jul

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In Gamasutra's latest feature, former Insomniac designer Mike Stout shares a useful rubric for judging the depth of play mechanics, including checks for redundant ones, using examples from the Ratchet & Clank series. Stout, who currently works in t...

Tags: Activision, activity statements, amp, Blizzard, Central, Clank, department, design experience, designer, Gamasutra, Insomniac, mechanics, Ratchet, rubric, series, stout, task, untrained designers, work

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Ze Frank Receives $500,000 For Social Gaming

19
Jul

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Video blogger and game designer Ze Frank announced that his stealth social gaming startup, Ze Frank Games, has raised $500,000 in a seed round from a group of angel investors. The new studio's backers include Andreessen Horowitz, Founder Collective, SV...

Tags: Andreessen, angel investors, backers, capital, Collective, CrossCut, designer, game designer, gary vaynerchuck, horowitz, joshua schachter, Lerer, round, seed, Show, social gaming, Studio, video podcasts, ze frank

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Gilbert: DeathSpank Could Pave The Way For More Downloads With ‘Real Meat’

14
Jul

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Veteran game designer Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island series) hopes that his latest game, DeathSpank -- more robust than many download-only titles -- can help pave the way to a new ecosystem for digital. The game design did not change simply because the gam...

Tags: designer, Downloads, ecosystem, feature interview, Game, Game Design, game designer, Meat, monkey island series, Pave, Plus, Ron Gilbert, series, today, veteran, way

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Rock Band 3 Lead Designer Teasdale Leaves Harmonix For Twisted Pixel

2
Jul

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Having unlocked virtually all of his career "achievements" at Harmonix as a designer on Rock Band, Dan Teasdale is leaving the studio to pursue a more hands-on development job. Teasdale, whose most recent position was lead designer on the upcoming Rock...

Tags: arcade, arcade game, austin tx, band 3, career, career achievements, designer, Development, development job, independent developer, Leaves, Man, position, Rock Band, Studio, teasdale, TX-based, Working, xbox live, xbox live arcade

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Interview: Loved’s Ocias Seeks Depth, Player Confrontation

2
Jul

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While E3 dominated games industry headlines this month, an unexpected candidate for people's attentions in June has been Loved, a browser-based game by Australian artist and designer Alexander Ocias. Developers of Flash-based browser games typically pr...

Tags: assumptions, atmosphere, attempts, attentions, australian artist, candidate, confrontation, designer, Game, games industry, industry headlines, interview, June, musical score, platform, platform game, player, score, text, user friendliness

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Blizzard Combines StarCraft II And WoW Pricing In Korea, Ponders Free WoW

30
Jun

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Blizzard is thinking hard about nontraditional business models. In South Korea, the company plans to offer both StarCraft II and World of Warcraft under a combined subscription-based payment plan, while World of Warcraft's current lead designer has pub...

Tags: access, Blizzard, business models, Combines, designer, free access, lead, MMO, notion, payment, press, pricing, Seoul, South Korea, starcraft, starcraft ii, world of warcraft, world of warcraft subscribers, WoW

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Allegorithmic Unveils New Texture Authoring Tool

22
Jun

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3D tech company Allegorithmic is debuting Substance Designer, its latest tool aimed at addressing what it sees as common bottlenecks in linear texturing workflows. Substance Designer is part of the larger texturing-oriented Substance product line, the ...

Tags: Allegorithmic, bottlenecks, customizable filters, designer, designers, dynamic textures, line, New, product, Substance, tech, texture, tool, Unveils

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