A few months back, I mentioned Game Seeds, the card game created by Utrecht School of the Arts, Monobanda and Metagama to help game designers brainstorm both character design and entire games, by playfully combining their specific mechanics. The post quite happily got far more attention than I would’ve imagined, and (especially after I’d posted [...]
What is a game? Evolution embedded play into the very fabric of being human, so this is a question that has been pondered since the dawn of man. It may be somewhat baffling, then, that we are still unable to reach a consensus. Searching the web for the “definition of a game” will unearth many [...]
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3 Jun 2010After the Humble Indie Bundle topped the incredible heights of $1million total sales, the developers involved announced they’d be releasing the source for their games (after a quick code clean-up, of course!). Wolfire’s Lugaru went first, followed by Penumbra: Overture. Gish‘s source was burst open a few days ago. Now Aquaria has followed suit, rounding [...]
You’ve already seen an extensive breakdown of the concept art behind Double Fine‘s nü-cult-classic Brutal Legend right here on Boing Boing, but above, interface designer Joe ‘codeloss‘ Kowalski goes awesomely in-depth on work he put into the menu and title screen systems — a system brilliantly aping the wonderful yesteryear of gatefold sleeves and ballpoint-pen [...]
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13 Apr 2010When Epic offered the Unreal SDK free to all users, it got Crytek to thinking — specifically, thinking about doing the same thing. Speaking to Develop, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli said that his company is looking to offer a free platform for budding game developers “that will be up to speed” with CryEngine 3. It’s [...]
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11 Jan 2010Our Swedish friends weren’t just working on a Final Fantasy project when the studio went belly-up last year. A former GRIN artist has posted concepts from a ninja action/adventure game, and it sounds like it was a new IP. Joakim Hellstedt classified these under “various pitches” and “various gameplay and misc,” so if it even [...]