I’ve always thought that the division of strategy games into turn based and real time categories was artificial. How a game tracks time is, in my opinion, less important than what it expects the player to do within that time. Soren Johnson seems to agree with me. He just posted his August Game Developer column […]
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Tom Chick Mostly Loves Majesty 2
September 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blogs, Review, RTS
Since this has become Majesty 2 week, I thought I should point you to my colleague’s review over at Fidgit. For some people, a near perfect copy is enough. For the most part, Majesty 2 is the same game as Majesty. Which is fine by me. The original game was a near work of genius […]
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Game AI Discussion
July 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blogs, Design
Soren Johnson has published the email exchange he had with his GDC co-panelists before the conference. It’s a very interesting discussion with some heavyweight minds, including Ubisoft’s Josh Mosqueira, the designer of Relic’s Company of Heroes. Now, whether to keep or axe a feature based on how well the AI can use it… that’s a […]
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Sid’s Rules
May 2nd, 2009 · 7 Comments · Blogs, Crispy Gamer, Design, Media
Sid Meier is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met. Even when he’s talking about other people’s games and how much fun he is having, I get the sense that he is appreciating them on more levels than I can imagine. Soren Johnson, his former colleague at Firaxis, has just posted “Sid’s Rules”, […]
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Listen to Me on the BoRTcast
February 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blogs, Me
Sunday morning, I joined Corvus Elrod on a podcast devoted to his recent Round Table discussion on the adaptation of literature to a game environment. We had some technical issues, so I hope the editing cleared some of that up. I’m not sure how useful I was, but it was fun and it was a […]
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Podcasting
January 27th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Blogs, Me, Media
This weekend, I’ll join a friend on his initial podcast. I’ll have more on the details once they are worked out. I’ve never been on a podcast before, and I haven’t been on TV or the radio since high school. I hope my stutter doesn’t reappear. But it has, once again, led me to consider […]
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