Backstory: in 2010, I wrote an article like this one published, in condensed form, in Game Developer magazine’s Career Guide. This is an extended version (50% more content!), republished here with permission. I’ve written about a handful of these points elsewhere in the blog, some before the article and some after, so this also hopefully…
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John Nesky: Facilitating Stories in PS3 Journey + Dynamic Camera (video)
9 years ago I helped start a college videogame development club, where I met John Nesky. We went on to work together at a startup, on an advergame, and on a bunch of iPhone titles before I went off to graduate school and he wound up over at thatgamecompany. More recently, I helped get another… Read more »
What is Japan Doing Differently (Video)
This video is an extended version of a 5 minute presentation that I recently put together for the same class with Celia Pearce that I wrote a handful of blog entries for. The original text-only version of this information from several years ago PDF of the slides used in this video Scans of a Japanese… Read more »
DeLeon @ Other Blogs: Extensive Interview, Playing as Pauline in Donkey Kong, and More
“Indeview” on Projects and Processes Interview on my technical choices, processes, and projects Academic Blog Entries Links to my posts on the class blog for Game Design as Cultural Practice – packed with references to other readings that may be of interest and plenty of conceptual discussion: Playing Donkey Kong as Pauline to Save Mario… Read more »
Programming Language Preferences and Tips from Readers and Twitter Followers
I use the handle @HobbyGameDev on Twitter for this blog. After tweeting from it for a long time only to announce new articles when I post them, I’ve recently switched to using it more actively, to engage daily with readers and other hobby or unfunded videogame developers. Another way that I have been using it… Read more »
Influence of Business Models on Game Design
I wrote this for a thread at game-design.org (an extremely new developer forum in semi-open beta – I figure anything on r/gamedev can’t be too secretive, right?) about the ethics of microtransactions. It seemed suitable to share here as well, though since it originated as a forum post it’s even more casual than I tend… Read more »