Friday, April 16, 2010

Talking About These: Video Games and Moral Choices

Daniel Floyd is the creator of an animated lectures series where he expresses a fresh and in-depth view on the industry and design.

Recently graduated from the Univerity of Georgia, he received a bachelor's degree in Drama, focusing in Digital Media, and is currently pursuing a carreer in the videogames industry as an animator.
"Episode Eight in my series of video "lectures," co-written with game designer James Portnow. It's time for another Game Design Corner episode, where we look specifically at elements of game design."




Via Talking About These

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Please Finish Your Game

Chris [Hecker] focuses on solving hard problems at the intersection of gameplay, aesthetics, and technology. He is an outspoken advocate for pushing the current boundaries of design and interactivity, in the hope that games will eventually achieve their full potential as a medium. (--chrishecker.com)

"My rant at the 2010 Game Developers Conference was entitled Please Finish Your Game. A gentleman in the audience was nice enough to video it for me: [...]
My rant is about how I'm worried about the fixation on development time these days, both in the indie community, and in corporate games.
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Via Chris Hecker's Website