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Tag Archives: Game Design
What have indie games become?
Six months ago I had a plan. I felt confident, and I felt enraptured in the world of indie games, and after many unsuccessful attempts I felt just a little bit pissed off. But it was an idea. At the … Continue reading
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Tagged Game Design, Indie Games, Miles Newton, The Machination
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A new blog?
Thrilling. And you can read it right here http://shortformfoundry.wordpress.com/ The idea is that I come up with a lot of ideas for games, and I want to see what happens when I give them some fresh air. So this is … Continue reading
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Tagged Game Design, Game development, Miles Newton, Short-form foundary
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Teaching you how to play
Throwing praise at Valve is a bit like pissing in an ocean. You’re going to be surrounded by people who can piss much harder than you and who have been doing it for much longer, but ultimately, you’re going to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bioshock, Game Design, Game development, Miles Newton, Teaching you how to play, The Machination, Tutorial, Valve
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Not all adventure games grow up to be pirates
I’m a horrible, horrible person. Almost five months ago I completed that dashing little indie adventure game Machinarium by Czech wizard and sometimes game designer Jakub Dvorsky and I, in my audacity, promised some kind of transcendental writeup about the … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Ramblings
Tagged Adventure Games, Game Design, Game development, Miles Newton, The Machination
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What makes a good hero in five minutes
I’ve been playing a mixed bag of titles over the last 4 or so months and each and every one of them has had their own concept of what should make a rollicking good hero. The usual fare stretches from … Continue reading
The Aesthetic of Movement
Shadow of the Colossus is a game that excelled in its simplicity. Only last week did I finally complete the game, and I could say that I never expected the experience that it provided and the knowledge that it imparted … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetics, Fumito Ueda, Game Design, Game development, Miles Newton, Mirrors Edge, Movement, Shadow of the Colossus, The Machination
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Too much icing – The bane of Portal 2
So yeah, I’m sure you’ve heard. Portal 2 has begun making its slow glorious trek into existence, speaking kind, enticing words and releasing ambrosia from its very pores. You may have noticed that a lot of people are clamouring wildly … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Ramblings
Tagged Gabe Newell, Game Design, Game development, Portal 2, Valve
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ScOA 5: The Sound of Silence
In that mysterious epiphanous, hour of the morning in which logic stays in bed, and sensibility takes the midnight train going anywhere, I was struck by a second thought, or more so an illusion. See, somewhere in the deep folds … Continue reading
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Tagged Game Design, Game development, Half Life 2, Miles Newton, Sound, The Machination
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ScoA 3: The designers' Fallacy
I’ve been thinking recently about the kind of games that I think I would make well, and the thought of genre specificity continued to float to the top. I don’t play as many RPGs as a lot of my friends, … Continue reading
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Tagged Game Design, Game development, Genre, Miles Newton, Shadow of the Colossus, The Machination
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