This is the catch-all category for stuff about games and game design. It easily makes up the vast majority of the site’s content. If you are looking for something specific, I highly recommend looking into the tags used on the site instead. They can narrow down the hunt immensely.
Lately, it seems like a lot of folks in the game industry are talking about ways to get rid of used game sales. There was the rumor about Sony not permitting used games with PS3, which was denied. There’s been plenty of talk about how used game sales and rentals are damaging the game industry among game devs. Even academics are talking about how to reduce resales. Witness this question posed to the rant panel at GDC in 2005:
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I’m behind on this one, but I always like to link to folks doing surveys, so everyone: if you played Façade, go take the Façade Player Survey and help out the creators!
Doing something a little bit different again. I have posted this poem before, but I wanted to talk a little bit about taking things away, since I was so recently on the topic of adding things in. And for those of you who don’t usually read the Sunday Poems, this one actually has game design relevance!
Looks like someone wrote a little commentary over here. I relied on Google to translate it, as usual.
If Tech Companies Made Sudoku is a funny parody, but I think that ironically, it made me think the opposite.
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