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What are some of the most notorious or historic examples of cloning, what made them unethical, and what design decisions could have been made to legitimize them? | Formspring

"This last example points to the basic "design decision" which makes a difference here: Add something. Change it up. Make it different. Put your own stamp on the game system, not just the skin. That is what starts to cross over from pure cloning, 1-to-1 structural-copying and reskinning, into something more. It's what made Cake Mania a much better game than Roller Rush, and it's what David Sirlin did with Flash Duel. Evolution: it's inherently not cloning."

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2 days ago by Nachimir

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How I Got 50% Women Speakers at My Tech Conference | Geek Feminism Blog

"Guest blogger Courtney Stanton explains how she organized a game developer conference with 50% women speakers." <-- correct approach. Hidden agenda, not a PR talking point.

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2 days ago by Nachimir

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No Show Conference » July 14 & 15, 2012 on the MIT campus

Held on a weekend, no panels.

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2 days ago by Nachimir

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Dear Android: a 9:1 piracy rate for games is not good enough (Wired UK)

"we're at a time where developers and publishers are turning their back on Android due to all the problems the market has, rather than embracing it."

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4 days ago by Nachimir

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#sworcery

Sworcery artwork; lovely.

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9 days ago by Nachimir

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Ludum Dare » Blog Archive » The spirit of Ludum Dare

"The best examples of how awesome people are to each other in LD are the game reviews and the posts on favorites. There is a lot of effort put into encouraging people to see the qualities of their games and how to improve. No matter how unfinished the state of the game, sometimes even unplayable, the comments are always incredibly encouraging. There is always something awesome about it."

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15 days ago by Nachimir

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Dear Mitu, Dear Emily « « Mitu Khandaker Mitu Khandaker

"he says something along the lines of: tastes are primarily based on distastes. It seems there is a similar problem in the conceptualisation of gender norms, not only are feminine and masculine held up against one another as oppositions but their supposed common gender attributes and behaviours only really seem to exist in terms of anxieties of being not masculine or feminine. Gendered behaviour and performance is certainly frequently judged as what it is not."

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21 days ago by Nachimir

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Gamasutra - News - Harmonix on gender, self-expression in Dance Central

Fascinating approach to gender and gender-based problems in the design of Dance Central. '"It's sad to me to think that we're the entertainment industry, and we're the most technologically advanced of all the entertainment industries, and yet we seem to be lacking in a social progressivism that matches our technological progressivism," Boch reflects. "I want to turn that around."'

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21 days ago by Nachimir

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Your game idea is too big

A great resource

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5 weeks ago by Nachimir

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Dragged Kickstarting and Screaming « Odious Repeater

We'll see: "The plan is this: get people invested, fail to deliver but show progress to whet people’s appetites. Then do a new fundraising drive to finish the game, and ultimately end up with up to twice the original budget, if not even more. "

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5 weeks ago by Nachimir

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Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing | Valve

"My observation is that it takes new hires about six months before they fully accept that no one is going to tell them what to do, that no manager is going to give them a review, that there is no such thing as a promotion or a job title or even a fixed role (although there are generous raises and bonuses based on value to the company, as assessed by peers). That it is their responsibility, and theirs alone, to allocate the most valuable resource in the company – their time – by figuring out what it is that they can do that is most valuable for the company, and then to go do it. That if they decide that they should be doing something different, there’s no manager to convince to let them go; they just move their desk to the new group (the desks are on wheels, with computers attached) and start in on the new thing."

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6 weeks ago by Nachimir

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The Most Dangerous Gamer - Magazine - The Atlantic

"Being labeled the most intellectual man in video games is a little like being called the most chaste woman in a brothel"

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6 weeks ago by Nachimir

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Attack Of The Moans: Why Star Wars fans should know better by now - Movie Feature - TheShiznit.co.uk

"Star Wars Kinect is the ultimate, inevitable expression of the new commercial truth of Hollywood that began with little plastic versions of Luke Skywalker"

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6 weeks ago by Nachimir

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Minimus and Sega

Minimus has a complete USB stack, so with a little work and hardware can translate any game controller input into USB.

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7 weeks ago by Nachimir

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rekall

"Don't aim to be civilized. Don't hope that straight people will keep you on as some kind of pet. To hell with them; they put you here. You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge."

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10 weeks ago by Nachimir

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Made by Pixelate – The perfect video game press kit

"I asked on Twitter how game journalists imagine the perfect press kit."

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february 2012 by Nachimir

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IGF Thread 2012

"I think that people should be nice about feedback to the IGF. Almost all of the people who are writing about this every year and with whom I strongly agree mention that Brandon and Simon are actual people and they have feelings too, not to mention that they are really passionate about indie games. They DO respond to feedback but I get the feeling that all the pissing and moaning that people are exhibiting really makes that hard to do"

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february 2012 by Nachimir

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5 BUTTONS Roundup | Experimental Gameplay Project

A bunch of interesting looking games

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february 2012 by Nachimir

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Games within games: Hoarding - Edge Magazine

"Cheese is plentiful in all holds of Skyrim, which gave me a first vector to channel my energies towards once the Breezehome was mine. Wheels and wedges soon became my most sought-after loot. I’d even re-enter cleared dungeons immediately on exit, thinking I’d missed one. I was dumping cheese in Lydia’s bedroom from the day I got the keys and within a few weeks, had filled one corner to the ceiling and covered her bed in eidar stilton. However, my cheese hoarding came to an end 100 hours in, when the game intervened to save itself. A friend challenged me to do Unrelenting Force in my cheese room. The frame rate immediately hit single digits – and has never fully recovered."

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february 2012 by Nachimir

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Gamasutra - Features - Principles of an Indie Game Bottom Feeder

"For 15 years (before my games appeared on iTunes and Steam and my life completely changed), I had a simple plan. Every year, I wrote a game, extensively reusing the code and assets from the previous one. Then I put it on sale for $25, with hint books and character editors available alongside for a little extra revenue.

My goal was 5,000 sales. Five thousand! Imagine what a negligible amount that is in this industry. Usually, I sold a couple thousand more than that, thanks to the small, loyal audience I spent many years building. And, if you do the math, you will see that there's a pretty decent living in there."

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february 2012 by Nachimir

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Sandbagging (racing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Sandbagging describes someone who underperforms (usually deliberately) in an event. The term has multiple uses, such as a driver who competes in an event in a series below their level of expertise to finish high."

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february 2012 by Nachimir

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Quarrel vs The Games Industry: Who’s Right? « Denki

The problems only started once they’d passed Quarrel up the decision tree to their finance and marketing teams – the bit more commonly known as “The Industry“. “This game is fundamentally broken – how can I possibly win with only 3 letters when my opponent has 8?”; “We could never sell this because it’s English language only”; “It looks like a kids game, but it’s way too hard for kids” and everywhere (trust me – everywhere) in between. We heard the same justifications for passing on it over and over again ad nauseam. However, one signal came through clearer than any other among the general noise of reasons why Quarrel wasn’t for them, and that was this: “Gamers don’t buy word games”.

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january 2012 by Nachimir

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The Game Bakers – Money and the App Store: a few figures that might help an indie developer

Some useful iOS figures, and the people at the studio seem to be lovely (dealt with them a bit for the IGA). "even though SQUIDS hasn’t made us rich so far, revenues from the iOS version have almost covered our development costs and we are confident that its upcoming release on other platforms will make the game profitable and allow us to develop a sequel. And for The Game Bakers, that’s what all of this is about: in the end it’s not about getting rich, but about being able to make the games we want to make, independently."

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january 2012 by Nachimir

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Kristen Wolfe: Dear Customer Who Stuck Up For His Little Brother

That's when big brother stepped in. He said to his dad, "It's my money, it's my gift to him. If it's what he wants, I'm getting it for him, and if you're going to hit anyone for it, it's going to be me." Dad just gave his oldest son a strong stern stare-down, and then left the store. Little brother was crying quietly. I walked over and ruffled his hair (yes, this happened all in front of me). I said, "I'm a girl, and I like the color blue, and I like shooting games. There's nothing wrong with what you like. Even if it's different than what people think you should." I smiled, he smiled back (my heart melted!). Big brother then leaned down, kissed little brother on the head, and said, "Don't worry, dude."

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january 2012 by Nachimir

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How Valve experiments with the economics of video games - GeekWire

"the people who are telling you that Russians pirate everything are the people who wait six months to localize their product into Russia"

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december 2011 by Nachimir

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Shortpacked! by David Willis - False Equivalence

Excellent rebuttal of "But men are objectified too!".

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december 2011 by Nachimir

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All The (Missing) Ladies: Creating a Bechdel Test for Video Games | Bitmob.com

"Rule #2 is where things get tricky, because game characters are not as verbose as their TV and movie counterparts. And since players control the action, there’s no guarantee that two game sessions will involve the same situations. Instead, let’s simplify it and say that the female characters must be able to interact with one another as the male characters do. If it’s a fighting game, that means playable female combatants. If it’s a shooter, there should be ladies shooting at each other. If it’s a dialogue-heavy game (written or spoken), then they should talk."

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november 2011 by Nachimir

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Gamasutra - Features - Building a Better Kickstarter Campaign

Coombs agrees, calling project updates "essential," and Octodad 2 designer and writer Kevin Zuhn says updates let them build a relationship with backers. "We made sure to post updates at every major milestone, thanking our backers constantly and revealing more information about ourselves as a team," he says. "We felt that sharing more about us as people was important to make a connection with our backers, so we put up images of our office and our trip to the aquarium."

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november 2011 by Nachimir

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PAX Valkyrie, No Flat Girls: How Allies are Born (Guest Post)

I didn’t look at him, couldn’t without bursting at the seams. Furious, I wanted to shout, “You make lots of noises about hating sexism, but you can’t fucking say anything to stop it when it’s right in front of you?!” Despairing, I wanted to weep, “How could you let him do that? Why didn’t you do anything to protect me? Is my right to feel safe worth less than the comfort of your silence?”

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november 2011 by Nachimir

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I’m Tired of Being a “Woman in Games.” I’m a Person.

"I mean, to me the solution is simple. Why argue about it? Why seek validation either way? When you're not sure how you feel, just err on the side of respecting people."

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november 2011 by Nachimir

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2D Boy: I love you, 2D Boy! » Blog Archive » Is XBLA Past Its Prime?

Small sample, but really good analysis of XBLA. Seems to be corroborated by things I hear from indie developers.

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october 2011 by Nachimir

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Gamers Opt Out

Opting out of EULA clauses designed to work against class action suits. Requires letter, this online service is doing it for people and running on donations.

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october 2011 by Nachimir

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who killed videogames? (a ghost story) | insert credit

Excellent piece. “The players will come for the cute characters, and stay for the cruel mathematics.”

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september 2011 by Nachimir

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Quote Unquote - The Last and Final Word: Bennett Foddy

"Never underestimate the unbridled power of procrastination." "If I play a game like Bulletstorm or Call of Duty or Gears of War, I actually feel embarrassed, since it feels like many of those games are pandering to the emotional needs of angsty, thwarted 14-year-olds, and here I am playing them at 33. I actually feel *less* like a patronized man-baby when I’m playing Pokémon."

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september 2011 by Nachimir

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Cardboard Children: Heroquest & More.. | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

"I think games connect us to a time when we had time. In your youth, time is elastic. You have exactly as much of it as you need. You have no responsibilities. No job, no children. Nothing but time, and friends, and shit to play with. When we play games now, as adults with too much stuff going on, we do so because we’ve made time for them. We’ve set time aside to indulge in some nonsense with people we love."

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august 2011 by Nachimir

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“It’s time to stop being afraid” « Alive Tiny World

"It was Ben who would later stand up for us – to demand to know why the panelists couldn’t name a single female critic when he was seated next to two of them, or why an audience member thought it was possible for the gender issue to “sort itself out” without any further discussion."

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august 2011 by Nachimir

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Play Wonderputt, a free online game on Kongregate

Very nice mini golf game, reminiscent of Grow series.

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august 2011 by Nachimir

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Ludus Novus » Blog Archive » Why So Few Violent Games?

"One of the most ambitious attempts at combat games, Chris Crawford’s oddly-named Gorytron, simulates combat to dizzying detail. It tracks blood flow, heart rate, muscle fatigue, and an array of other internal properties of its NPCs. One would think that this approach would be the perfect way to present interesting action scenes. Yet its clumsy menu-based interactions and awkward presentation make it into something Crawford himself admitted was a failure. Action games are just really hard to make."

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august 2011 by Nachimir

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T=Machine » We don’t need no AAA console studios

Bit brutal, but: "I welcome the demise of bloated, badly managed, unprofitable, second-rate console studios."

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july 2011 by Nachimir

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Casual Gameplay Design Competition #6 — "Explore"

Small Worlds, lovely little game

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july 2011 by Nachimir

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Guwange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Really beautiful shoot-em-up.

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july 2011 by Nachimir

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Project Intern-Hub - Klobb's Posterous

"Over the past year, we've been receiving a number of requests for Internships at Honeyslug. One of these resulted in us now having an intern, which is going great (waves at Olivier) and we're certainly interested in continuing to run a (paid) intern programme.

But in the past three months, the volume of requests has gone through the roof. I aim to reply to every single one, and look at all the porfolio work people send, but I'm starting to get behind, partly being really busy with other projects."

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july 2011 by Nachimir

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Luftrauser

Accidentally tweeted this from @SavyGamer before. Have a quick go before bed: RT @SavyGamer: Luftrauser is the shit

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june 2011 by Nachimir

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undef | receipt-racer

Lovely

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june 2011 by Nachimir

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IndieGames.com - The Weblog
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june 2011 by Nachimir

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[Creation] The Earth (Updated - Final) - Minecraft Forum

"The world is fully playable (includes ores, trees, etc). Elevation has been scaled to fit the constraints of a Minecraft world. Sea level was adjusted to 40 blocks which puts Mt. Everest at 121 blocks high. The Earth was generated with various images from NASA (including landmass, satellite, elevation, and vegetation maps) using a custom python script incorporating codewarrior’s pymclevel python library."

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may 2011 by Nachimir

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Overclockers Australia Forums - View Single Post - Cartridge sizes

Cartridge dimensions for many consoles

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may 2011 by Nachimir

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Video Games vs Real Life | Fubiz™

Some nice shoppery

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may 2011 by Nachimir

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ShortStuf7's Clean Design Pack (v1.7!)-full v1.5 support! - Minecraft Forums

Lovely texture pack

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april 2011 by Nachimir

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Gingham_Invaded-WHT fabric by voodoorabbit for sale on Spoonflower - custom fabric
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april 2011 by Nachimir

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Pica Pic | retro handheld games collection

Wow. Lovely.

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march 2011 by Nachimir

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Gamasutra - News - Interview: Markus Persson On Bringing Achievements to Minecraft

"For suggestions, I try not to read them too often, because they can kill my inspiration."

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february 2011 by Nachimir

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NAZISAURUS: Dino D-Day Beta Next Week | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

"Dino D-Day represents one of the first (if not THE first) attempt by a television production company to create and publish an independent video game."

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february 2011 by Nachimir

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Vlambeer | Bringing back arcade since 1885 | Blog

I love the idea of things that are designed to die: Beautifully wrapped gifts, products that are meant to be modified. I want to explore this idea in so many ways.

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february 2011 by Nachimir

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Gaming - News - Power Up!: The Gamification of Life - Digital Spy

Hear hear: "That said, people don't need to, or want to be measured and ranked in everything they do. So much like salt in cooking, game mechanics should be sprinkled into the mix with care."

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january 2011 by Nachimir

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Indie godfather Cliff Harris | Interview

'it'd be great if everyone had loads of time to read up critical analysis and artistic values and stuff like that, but the reality is people go "look! Explosions!" It's tragic really.'

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january 2011 by Nachimir

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vector poem » Breadth

"As of 2009, the game industry seems to want two fairly contradictory [1] things: Make games, using proven mechanics from the last 20 years, that sell millions of copies. Give people a broad range of experiences that affect them as powerfully as those found in other forms of art."

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november 2010 by Nachimir

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Where the Boys Are Not

"85% of publishing employees with less than three years of experience are women. So, while everyone knows there are more women than men working in this field, that statistic raises the question: is an almost all-female publishing industry bad for business? Does it matter?"

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october 2010 by Nachimir

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GameCity's Iain Simons | Interview

"the more that parents, and people who are suspicious of games are exposed to those people, because they're intelligent, insightful and creative people, because you can't make games without being those things, that tends to foster a whole load of understanding and, as you say, bridge building."

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september 2010 by Nachimir

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So… Who Or What Exactly Is “Babycastles”? << Attract Mode

"Babycastles, New York's first independent games arcade, is named after bite-size portugese cakes in Japan. As a new function of a legendary all-ages venue for Brooklyn music and other local diy-culture [otherwise known as Silent Barn], Babycastles is a wall of six lovingly decorated arcade cabinets that offers a physical place to play games made by amateur and independent game developers."

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august 2010 by Nachimir

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But my name really is Deathblood Blackaxe | MetaFilter

"In the same way that saying stuff is "gay" is especially pronounced in the gamer community, even the people that say slurs ironically or by force of habit inadvertently make actual bigots in the gaming community feel empowered because they don't realize other people don't mean those things like they do. It is much more common and acceptable to express racist opinions in the gaming community than society at large."

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july 2010 by Nachimir

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Krimelo: Nation Of Reincars

This looks interesting. Indie hipster Lost Vikings?

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july 2010 by Nachimir

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Dark Futures Part 5: Clint Hocking | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

"The (new) reality is that everything from Achievement Points to Twitter and Facebook feeds to Drop In Co-op to Mii’s and Avatars to Level Editors to Augmented Reality to motion controllers and gaming in the Cloud has created an entire new domain of rules that for the most part designers don’t even question – never mind design to support meaningful player agency."

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july 2010 by Nachimir

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Dream and Friends» Blog Archive » How to Hate Golden Axe

Horrid horrid horrid, and a little amusing.

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may 2010 by Nachimir

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Another view of game piracy - Wolfire Games Blog

"When Reflexive games performed a series of experiments with anti-piracy measures, they found that they only made one extra sale for every 1000 pirated copies they blocked [7]. This implies that their 90% piracy statistic caused them to lose less than 1% of their sales."

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may 2010 by Nachimir

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The 10 Weirdest Educational Video Games | Geekosystem

Some really cringeworthy things in here.

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april 2010 by Nachimir

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Continuity: A Flash Puzzle Platformer

Clever game, makes sliding tile puzzles simpler and more fun.

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march 2010 by Nachimir

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Procedural Inc. - 3D Modeling Software for Urban Environments

Really impressive procedural city engine. Could work amazingly with handmade details/locations/missions.

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february 2010 by Nachimir

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BBC News - When the tech becomes unfriendly

In online world There, which lets players buy and decorate in-game homes, Ms Littleton said that some people put up houses close to others and then deliberately make them unattractive. "They make it horrible so they bring down the whole neighbourhood," she said. When everyone else leaves they buy up the virtual real estate and spread out. "There are all kinds of creative ways to bully people now,"

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february 2010 by Nachimir

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Interview with Andy Qua – Creator of Cube Runner : EveryJoe - Sports News – Tech Reviews – Entertainment – Life Tips for EveryJoe

It's a sideline. He developers for BA the rest of the time.

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february 2010 by Nachimir

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Global Game Jam '10 Keynote on Vimeo

Ste Curran on what gets him to work.

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february 2010 by Nachimir

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distractionware » Bridge
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january 2010 by Nachimir

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Borderlands Easter Egg Made Me Feel Like a Genius. For Five Minutes. - GIJeffM Blog - GameInformer.com

People will go to great lengths if you pique their curiosity (Problem: Curiosity is piqued by different things, hence low engagement problem of ARGs)

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january 2010 by Nachimir

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The Making Of: Syndicate | Edge Online

“The gameplay evolved by playing it multiplayer over the network. This is the best way of designing games and should be done more often, rather than hacking multiplayer in as an afterthought.”

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december 2009 by Nachimir

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The art and lifestyle of Rebecca Clements - PLAY WITH MY BITS, MY LORD

Ugh :/

Taking parody of Evony to it's logical conclusion.

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november 2009 by Nachimir

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Gamasutra - Features - Kill Polygon, Kill: Violence, Psychology, and Video Games

Comment: "And to Greasley, the creator of Edmund, and anyone else who would follow suit: depicting a despicable act in game form does not make you clever or an auteur. It does not instantly elevate your game to "art". If i created a game wherein an eight-year-old boy stroked off into his mother's shattered skull, and then carved out his own testes and replaced them with her lifeless gouged-out eyeballs, i wouldn't be "opening up a debate about morality in video games". i'd be masturbating." <-- way to undermine your own point.

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october 2009 by Nachimir

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Game Central / Previous Meetings

Hmm. How to make regional networking events for game developers that cater to all types/levels? Not sure it's possible.

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october 2009 by Nachimir

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Unrealart Computer Generated Art by Alison Mealey
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october 2009 by Nachimir

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What Is Indie? | Resolution Magazine

“Indie has now become a brand rather than a definition, one that publishers are keen to exploit in order to gain favour with the hardcore. But regardless of any of this, I still think we know what is and isn’t indie. In which case, is there actually a problem with how it’s being used?”

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october 2009 by Nachimir

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INTERVIEW - Charlie Brooker (Part 1) | A MCV Feature | MCV

"Often gamers came across as inarticulate because they were being interviewed as they were trying to play a game. You can’t concentrate on both at the same time."

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october 2009 by Nachimir

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