Here are mini-postmortems on the past 3 team projects for which I served as a lead or primary role. I handled programming and much of the gameplay design, collaborating with artists, writers, musicians and other designers. Full credits are available in-game. Please note that all of the games below require a modestly up-to-date version of… Read more »
Posts Tagged Author’s Games
Zylatov Sisters (80′s arcade-style co-op)
Dec 11, 2011Zylatov Sisters is now finished and online. It’s the result of 10 weeks of work by 10 student developers, myself included. We created it alongside classwork and our various other obligations – none of us were on it full-time. We used an unusual design process to orchestrate our work and decisions in a modular fashion… Read more »
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- Special Topic, Vol. 33
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- Author's Games, Student Games
Colorful Oceans and Chunky Sauces
Nov 30, 2011The 2005 book Blue Ocean Strategy popularized the distinction between Red Ocean and Blue Ocean. Red Ocean refers to competition with the existing market leaders at what they do best. Blue Ocean refers to making something characteristically different than what market leaders are doing. The arms race taking place between Medal of Honor, Battlefield, and… Read more »
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- Intermediate, Vol. 32
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- Author's Games, Game Design, Industry
Zylatov Sisters Process and Progress
Oct 31, 2011Everyone manages their project teams differently, and works on parts in their own preferred order. I’d like to briefly share a window here into the first month of updates on one of our ongoing projects, in case it may any strategies or ideas of interest to others. This semester in Georgia Tech VGDev (link to… Read more »
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- Advanced, Vol. 31
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- Author's Games, Student Games, Team Projects
Quit Smoking Game: Effect of Interaction on Interpretation
Sep 12, 2011Artist ReClark Gable created this still image a year or two ago: I made a playable version matching the visual elements combined with common Breakout-style gameplay conventions. Earlier this year, I wrote a blog entry about the effect of interaction on interpretation specifically about this case. Although I briefly alluded to this project months ago… Read more »
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- Advanced, Vol. 30
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- Author's Games, Game Dissection, Theory