Reposted with Permission. Also since I wrote the original article E3 happened and Sony has revealed a lot more of the stratergy, some...
The Hidden Evil of the Micro Transaction. Over the last year a lot of time has been spent thinking, writing and developing my thoughts on social gaming and by extension micro transactions. The last f...
Games let us craft interactive systems in which we can play and explore. We play with limited rule-sets, physics, combat, squad based AI.
I attempt to describe what the next 12 weeks roughly will be for me as I explore the problem of social interaction as defined in games. I give a brief outline of the concepts as a shallow introduc...
So I've lost sleep over the last week because I've been trying to convince people Social games are not evil. I've had some good counter arguments thrown at me. Sleep lost. Counter Arguments and final...
Okay so talk about timing. Just days after my last post it's announced classic team based tactical game Jagged Alliance is getting an online treatment. So now often people think strange things b...
As I currently furiously work on my Data Driven Dialogue system for the end of the month delivery and continue my job hunt with furious speed. There is one other project I desperately want to approach...
Image from Matt Hamm. So Games Horizon Conference for the second year running really pushed the social and freemium agenda. My viewpoint, shared by others I spoke to, is that the social gold rush...