Showing posts with label game industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label game industry. Show all posts
Friday, May 23, 2025

Upcoming game dev events in Australia and New Zealand, June - August 2025

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Down here in the other hemisphere, Australians and New Zealanders are approaching winter... which means it's time to leave the beach and...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Yep I'm at GDC 2025 (links / presskit / dance card)

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Yep I'm attending GDC 2025.  (For better or worse , I've made too many commitments to cancel.) The best way to contact me is to  @ m...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Design review of Against The Storm, by Eremite Games

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Against the Storm  by Eremite Games ( Steam page , official site ) is a popular 2.5D town-building run-based RTS with a Warcraft 3 inspired ...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Double Fine PsychOdyssey recaps / viewing guide, episodes 01-17

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Last month, game industry documentary makers 2 Player Productions debuted a massive 32-part YouTube game dev doc series Double Fine PsychOdy...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Borderlands The Pre-Sequel as Australian industry elegy

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We played Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (essentially, Borderlands 2.5) on co-op mode, and yep it's a Borderlands game. You run around...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Thick skin: complexion, realism, and labor in games

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In Dublin, I visited the  Lucian Freud Project at IMMA . If you're not familiar with painters (who is these days?) Lucian Freud is...
Monday, November 5, 2018

The first person shooter is a dad in mid-life crisis

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OK I know Heavy Rain isn't an FPS but I like this screenshot so I don't care Every semester for our introductory Games 101 hist...
Friday, June 8, 2018

Why I'm not super excited about Valve's new Steam policy

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In case you haven't heard: Valve recently announced it won't attempt to moderate the content on Steam anymore except when legally r...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Advice for making a game design / game dev portfolio

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After advising several game dev students on their portfolio websites, I realized I was basically giving the same advice and pointing out ...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Submit your impossible demands to #ManifestoJam by February 13

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Just a brief note that a bunch of folks are doing a "Manifesto Jam" (which is maybe possibly inspired by my survey of manifesto...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

The second death of the immersive sim (2007-2017) and a dark prophecy for a third-wave immersive sim

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This post contains a few general gameplay spoilers for Dishonored: Death of the Outsider. Many years ago, Rock Paper Shotgun published ...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

new re-release: Radiator 2 Anniversary Edition

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I just finished a re-remaster of my game Radiator 2. This "anniversary edition" is now live on Steam and itch.io , so feel fre...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

On the hopeful undead future of VR and "A Short History of the Gaze", by Paolo Pedercini / Molleindustria

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I played Paolo Pedercini 's first (and maybe last?) virtual reality piece "A Short History of the Gaze" last year at Weird...
Monday, August 7, 2017

Recent developments in queer game studies, Summer 2017

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Here's a few recent updates in the """discourse""" within the exciting world of QUEER GAME STUDIES!!! ...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Lol we're all poor

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Some recent posts on indie dev failure have been going around lately -- Introversion Software talks about how their experimental explorat...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

On that one brilliant episode of Murder She Wrote that thinks VR is kind of bullshit

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Murder She Wrote was a long running TV show about an elderly mystery novelist (played by Dame Angela Lansbury ) who happens to solve all t...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Theorizing local games cultures in a post-TIGSource era

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Colin Northway tweeted this  about a week ago: This GDC I strongly felt there's a large movement of young indies that I know nothing ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

A progressive future for VR: why VR is already getting worse, and how to make it better

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Last time , I wrote about how I think of game culture as too conservative and too product-oriented to truly change or redirect toward more a...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

"The game industry needs to get laid and just chill already" @ GDC 2016

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This is a lightly edited transcript of the 5 minute microtalk I delivered as part of a panel at GDC 2016 . Thanks to Bennett Foddy and Ri...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

A history (and the triumph) of the environment artist: on The Witness and Firewatch

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This post vaguely spoils random bits of Firewatch and The Witness. I wouldn't worry about it. Only a few years ago, hiking games (f...