My good friend and fellow developer Tony “Mr Sunshine” Garcia and I just began a series of “Developer Commentary” videos. First up is Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando — our first game as REAL developers (we were testers on RC1). So far we’ve put up one episode, which gets us to the end of the…
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Guest Post: Colin Munson – “Challenging Challenges for Thinking People”
My friend and fellow designer Colin Munson asked if he could write a guest post for my blog, and my answer was “HELLS YEAH!” Colin and I worked together for 5 years at Insomniac, and he’s one of my favorite Game Designers in the industry. I found the following editorial fascinating, and I’m proud to…
A list of things that make me happy
So it’s 1 in the morning, I’m awake, and I’m trying to think of things to do. I’ve exhausted my normal avenues of entertainment. I tried googling “make me happy” but got nothing useful. To that end, I’m going to make a list here of things that make me happy. Because it’s my blog and…
Rated T for Teen
From Spyborgs’ ESRB rating page on ESRB.com. … An unlockable video features a cartoon parody of a Saturday morning commercial in which two fish sing about their plumbing services (e.g., “…if it’s reeking something savage ’cause you’ve eaten too much cabbage…”). The sounds of flatulence and the discharge of excrement can be heard as the…
Day One DLC
Capcom Releases 5$ Multiplayer DLC for RE5 Capcom released a multiplayer mode as Downloadable Content for the recently released Resident Evil 5, and of course the intertubes are aflame with hate. Although I have no problems with it personally, I can understand the argument against it — by releasing the multiplayer patch so soon after…
Game Story Seed
So there’s this story today about a US satellite and a Russian Satellite colliding. US and Russian officials yesterday confirmed that the satellites – an Iridium communications spacecraft and a Russian Kosmos-2251 military satellite – collided at about noon GMT on Tuesday. The first known example of a satellite collision in space occurred about 800km…
McDonalds doesn’t make kids fat… video games do
Recently the web exploded with an out-of-context quote from a McDonalds executive to the effect of “video games make kids fat, not our food.” While, as I said, this quote was out of context and actually made sense if you read the whole interview, it tickled my brain a bit. Then I saw this commercial…
I’m in Fortune Magazine!
Ok, well Sony gets the credit/blame for it, but still — at least it’s for something that I did: 101 Dumbest Moments in Business Ah, what a dumb year it was! Fortune chose the absolutely dumbest of the dumb that the gods of fate and humor delivered into our laps – and yours – this…
[D3] Episode 11
I instructed the cabbie to leave as much space as he could between us and the other cab. I still wasn’t sure if I’d been made, I didn’t want to give the guy I was following any reason to be suspicious. After a few minutes I began to relax a little. The cab ahead of…
Tetris Grand Master
The video starts off with a faster tetris game than I’ve ever seen anyone play before and only gets crazier. In the video, at 1:20 before the end, the credits start rolling and he keeps playing with INVISIBLE blocks. I don’t think I can ever spend enough time on something to get that good at…