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.
In the last few days, I’ve had occasion to catch up on a lot of games. Given that I haven’t posted too much over the last few days (been busy playing instead!) I figured I might as well share my favorites off of the list so that you can go out and seek out these play experiences yourself, and think about how MMOs might develop with more attention to features other than the leveling…
The 7th Annual Independent Games Festival has just announced a retail compilation of past IGF entrants, including games like Gish and Strange Adventures in Infinite Space.
In the first post, I outlined my reasons for having disliked levels for about ten years now, and then marched through a discussion of how levels were distorted as they were adapted from pen and paper games into CRPGs and then MUDs. It seemed like a fairly damning case against levels, but it wasn’t the whole picture even of the bad parts. It was also far from a picture of the good parts, which present a compelling case for having levels anyway.
It’s sad to see veteran game designers turn bitter and cynical over the fate of the industry.
On the other hand, if we keep getting comics like this one then, Ron can stay bitter. 🙂
I told myself I wouldn’t reblog, but… here’s some links that have recently caught my eye that I meant to write whole posts about but haven’t found the time.
