Patrick Curry is Brave!

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Jan 142006
 

Patrick Curry’s Thoughts on Game Design, the blog of the lead designer of Stubbs the Zombie, is posting a game idea every week on his blog. Forget NaNoWriMo…!

Now, if he were posting an actual game every week… 😉

  6 Responses to “Patrick Curry is Brave!”

  1. Patrick Curry’s Thoughts on Game Design says:
    January 17, 2006 at 2:35 am

    Raph Koster

  2. StGabe says:
    January 14, 2006 at 3:59 pm

    Cool. Thanks for the link, it’s rather timely for me. I made my own, very similar New Years resolution — I’m going to take casual game concepts through to development on a regular basis this year. I decided to do them in Flash (which I’d never used before) and so right now I’m just learning flash and getting setup but I hope to putting out a few simple concepts quite soon.

  3. J. says:
    January 14, 2006 at 6:03 pm

    I’m wondering whether this is secretly a commentary on how easy game ideas are to come by. He’ll ease up on it once he realizes other people have likely either thought of everything he comes up with already, or figure he’s ripe for ripping off before he can exploit his own ideas in his own line of work.

  4. mason says:
    January 14, 2006 at 10:52 pm

    reading his blog, it rocks! it seems like an exercise to keep fresh and creative.

  5. Design challenge: weekly game idea - Joystiq says:
    January 16, 2006 at 10:51 am

    […] a next-gen extreme mountain biking title J?[Via Raph’s Website]ReadPermalinkEmail thisLinking BlogsComments[0] […]

  6. Design challenge: weekly game idea - Joystiq says:
    January 16, 2006 at 11:06 am

    […] Design challenge: weekly game ideaPosted Jan 16th 2006 1:30PM by Christopher GrantFiled under: SportsPatrick Curry, lead designer of hidden-gem Stubbs the Zombie, has challenged himself to produce one new game idea per week, every week this year. His first two game ideas included Toothache, a Nintendo DS dentist simulator, and It’s all Business, a text-based, multiplayer, cell phone title. This week’s title is the most elaborate. Mountain Bike Mike is an "extreme-sport racing adventure game." Curry details the control scheme, calling it his inspiration for the idea: "I love control schemes that evoke the real-life activity, and I think you could do some cool stuff with mountain-bike controls. The first part of the idea is that you control your steering separately from your body weight, as controlling your weight on a bicycle is important, but especially important when you’re barreling down a mountain. The second part of the idea is that you control your front-brake independently from your rear-brake. While this might sound cumbersome, anyone who’s ever flipped a bike will tell you that there’s an important distinction here."I know of a guy who might not only need a lesson in mountain bike controls but is also in a position to green light Curry’s idea. Any interest in making a next-gen extreme mountain biking title J?[Via Raph’s Website]ReadPermalinkEmail thisLinking BlogsComments [1] […]

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