Looking to the future
As the inXile guys have been explaining in their immensely successful kickstarter project*, you generally don’t want to wait until after the current project wraps up to start thinking about and planning the next one. Even for a single developer like myself. I’ll be grinding hard all the way to the finish line and beyond,…
Exercising the creativity muscles
Secretly, though some people have told me that I am, I’ve never really thought of myself as particularly creative. Frequently, when I’ve sat down and thought “ok brain, give me an idea”, nothing comes. My brain looks back at me, blankly. And I’ve never really felt like those ideas that I do generate are particularly…
The Formula is Wearing Thin
Another week, another Kickstarter project announced. This time, Brenda Brathwaite and Tom Hall are up to bat, with “An Old School RPG“. Sorry, a what? Oh right, an “Old School RPG”. …no, I still don’t think I have it. What is it, exactly? “Old School RPG” is a category, not a specific description of a…
The Inevitable Evolution
Introversion have announced that their latest game, Prison Architect, is going into Alpha. As is fashionable (and smart, for some types of games), they’re doing the Alpha Funding. But they’ve taken it a bit further by integrating a tiered reward system, ala Kickstarter. This is not the first time I’ve seen this kind of thing,…
The Tomb Raider Debacle
Because fools rush in where angels fear to tread, I made a video discussing the recent controversy surrounding the revelation that Lara Croft would suffer a near-rape in the next Tomb Raider game.
The Free Rider Issue
Cardinal Quest sees 90% piracy rate on Android, according to reports. I’m not going to spend time with this post saying piracy is bad blah blah. Instead, what I find interesting is that number, 90%. In just about every sales postmortem that I’ve read that gave detailed stats, that has been about the number you…
Democratizing creativity
Unless this is literally your first day on the internet (and there is a meme for that), then you’ve probably already seen at least a few of the popular memes floating ’round the internet. Things like this : Now, you may enjoy these memes or you may think them insipid bullshit, whatever. It’s not the…