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Over the past weeks, %%% % % % a few interviews with me have appeared around the Web, and I thought I’d mention them here real quick, in case you are not following me on Twitter or Facebook – shame on you! – an may thus have overlooked these interesting tidbits. I did a two-part interview with Inkwrapped.com on the… Continue reading "A few interviews that you might find interesting"
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If names like Scott Adams, Infocom or Magnetic Scrolls make your eyes light up in excitement, you are my kind of crowd. A very special person, obviously with a long history in computer games, because these names are synonymous with the Text Adventure genre. Those of you who have been following my work and career for a long time may… Continue reading "Text Adventures on my mind… What? You never heard of them?"
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I have to be honest. I did not follow the development of “Shadow of Mordor” at all. As you may recall, after it turned out to be impossible to get a viewing of the game during this year’s E3 despite my hour-long wait, I lost interest in the game altogether. Now that it has been released, a lot of coverage… Continue reading "Does the “Nemesis System” feel familiar to you? Perhaps it should…"
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I thought I’d write today about something that has been bothering me in computer and video games for many years—decades, in fact. Exaggerated idle animations, a problem that plagues even some of the most famous of AAA games. When was the last time your chest was heaving up and down five inches when you were standing still? Really… try to… Continue reading "Isn’t it time we rethink idle animations?"
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Rife with possibilities, %%% % % % this setting should be worth more than it is. ”The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling – a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension – becomes unbearable and the sense awake and revolt from it.”… Continue reading "Shouldn’t There Be More to Casino Games?"
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As many of you know, I’ve been a game developer for most of my life, and my career in the industry goes back over 30 years. As such, I have seen trade shows come and go, and I was there when the Electronic Entertainment Expo, now universally known as E3, was first conceived as the industry’s replacement for the Chicago… Continue reading "E3 exhibitors afraid to show you their games?"
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While I was going through materials and documents I just stumbled across this 1999 interview with GameWeek Magazine. The magazine is no longer around and folded in 2002. It’s a bit of nostalgia and one of the interviews I like and remember most coming out of my “Planescape: Torment” era. Since many of you may never have seen this, or… Continue reading "Look what I found…"
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If you’ve been following the development of my current game project, “Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore,” you may be aware of the fact that we are currently trying to find this project on Kickstarter. Here is a short trailer for the game, which taken from the full Kickstarter pitch video. Check it out and see if this is something you like.… Continue reading "The Deathfire Kickstarter is live!"
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I know that I have been remiss on this, and I apologize, but we opened the official website for my current game project “Deathfire: Ruins of Nethermore” a little while ago and have transferred all the Development Diary entries over there. Instead of updating both blogs constantly, I think I will stop posting these updates here and will do them… Continue reading "The Deathfire Development Diary has moved"
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While venturing through the catacombs somewhere in the depths of the Ruins of Nethermore the other day, we stumbled across a strange set of notes. They seem to be coming from the pages of a diary. In fact, someone suggested, they might be a diary entry from the great elven wizard Tesselar. Long and heated discussion broke out over this… Continue reading "Mysterious notes discovered in the Ruins of Nethermore…"
