Well it’s all done tomorrow. Friday is my last day at Insomniac Games. It’s been an awesome five years, and I can’t wait to see what the future has in store. I’m going to be moving over to Obsidian — they made KOTOR II and Neverwinter Nights II. I get to work on this, [2019…
Phil Harrison Inteview (Resistance Related)
http://ncroal.talk.newsweek.com/default.asp?item=506839 A lot of good stuff in there about Resistance… a lot of really long questions, too. I’m not completely sure why, but I’ve always liked Phil. I met him once, he’s a really cool guy. SUPER tall, too. 6’7″ seems so much larger in real life than when you read it on paper.
Elder Scrolls V… woe is me
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157366 As for what form Elder Scrolls V would take, that’s still up in the air. An MMO seems a natural, evolutionary step for the series, but while Hines doesn’t suggest that’s a direction for Elder Scrolls V, the possibility of a new game has been bounced around. He doubts, however, they would go forward…
On Resolution
I’ve been thinking a bit about resolution mechanics over the last few days… random, I know — but that’s what kind of crazy crap comes into my head when I’m not working. By “resolution mechanic” I’m referring to the behind-the-scenes method by which a game resolves its core gameplay mechanic. The three I’ve been thinking…
I Didn’t Sign Up For This: Musings on Minigames
Recently I’ve been mulling over the subject of variety in games. Generally speaking, more variety is probably better. After all, no matter how good your core gameplay mechanic is, eventually players are going to need a break. And given that the last thing you want is for your players to put down the controller, this…
On Focus Tests
So I was doing my daily search through gametab.com, as I am wont to do, and I came across this little gem: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3156887 Dave Jaffe liveblogged during a Focus test for Calling All Cars. It’s funny to me because I’ve been to a lot of focus tests, and it’s interesting to see how people react…
I’ve been playing a lot of adventure games
Recently, as I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been playing a lot of adventure games. This is fairly unusual for me — I stopped playing adventure games sometime in the mid nineties when they went out of style. What brought them back for me, I think, was the new Sam and Max episodic content….
Wii Play
I was just remembering yesterday how over the holidays I took my Wii home for my relatives to play. It really amazed me how easily they all, from my 5 year old cousin to my 60 year old aunt, picked it up. Most of the time, when I brought my game systems with me, I’d…
How Games Affect Us
Sometime last year I played a game called “Indigo Prophecy.” (If you haven’t played it, I highly recommend picking it up. I can vouch for the PS2 version, at least). The game had a number of really interesting mechanics about it that felt very good, but one in particular stuck in my mind, and I…
First post!!
Well, this is the first post of (I hope) many on my new blog. My goal is to force myself to update it, so we’ll see how that goes. As a first post, I figured I’d talk a little about what I’ve been into lately. I just finished Twilight Princess — that game ruled. I’ve…