Dev Update!Believe it or not I have been doing some small amount of game development these last few months. In a sporadic fashion I reopen my project, consult my sparse documentation to see what so...

Best Games - Might and Magic Clash of HeroesDuring the reign of the nintendo DS a cavalcade of excellent games poured out of development studios and onto that small, two screened console. Many of t...

I’ve been tracing. Sometime late in high school I decided not to copy other artist's work. It wasn’t any sort of moral stance. I didn’t feel like I owed Erik Larsen an apology for...

Best Games – Oddworld: Stranger's WrathGames that try to do too many things are usually failures. It's the kitchen sink approach. The developers try to put a little of everything into the gam...

This past Thursday I put together a presentation for the local game developers group. I said a couple months ago that I would do something based around animation. I had done a simple rundown of 3D ...

I want to talk about fear. None of us is fearless. Fear is a great driver of human nature. Fear caused us to congregate in groups and tribes to ward off large predators. Fear moved us to harness fi...

Games used to be different.I tend to dislike “used to be” stories. You know the ones. The world used to be like this, or people used to act like that. Even when they are partially factu...

Best Games - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GalaxyThere was never any chance that text adventures would last. Not in any real way. There are a lot of people who still dabble in the genre, and ...

What you are really designing against is boredom. Somewhere along the path to writing that book or composing that song or staging that production, they have all had that thought. It might have been...