I’m not a doctor. Or at least not the kind of doctor that can do you any good. So maybe there is a legitimate reason why Guns of August has an epilepsy warning. It seems like a very unlikely game to cause seizures, though. Especially since the warning cites “strong, flashing lights” as a trigger. […]
Eight Things Not To Do Is Done
August 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Design
Soren Johnson has just wrapped up his two part post on mistakes people make in game design, specifically strategy game design. For the most part, I agree with with eight points but, being a contrary type, I have a few nitpicks here and there. Make sure you read both parts one and two before you […]
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I Am Not Very Good
August 26th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Me
The dirty secret of games journalists is that many of them are not very good at games. You won’t see them topping games ladders or schooling all newcomers. They play too many games to ever really excel and any one unless it is their sole pastime outside of the work environment. This is doubly true […]
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Minimum Spec Fun
August 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Me
For the last week or so I’ve been unable to play Bioshock. I exceed the minimum specs by quite a bit, except for two things – video card memory and RAM. Here I am right at the minimum line so the game would crash on area transitions. I haven;t been able to get past the […]
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The Making of Shogun
August 24th, 2007 · Comments Off on The Making of Shogun · Creative Assembly, Interview
Sometimes I wish I had a huge portfolio of developer interviews and features that I could dredge up to make up for new content. Kieron doesn’t have that problem.
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Age of Empires Retrospective
August 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Age of Empires Retrospective · Ensemble, Industry
Gamasutra has just published a story on the Age of Empires panel at GCDC. Bruce Shelley, Brian Sullivan and Rick and Tony Goodman were there to talk about the history of the franchise. A note for the writers – when you have two Goodmans talking you can’t just write “said Goodman.” There aren’t a lot […]
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