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My father was not happy to hear that I wanted to be a game developer. Yet he’d never had an issue with me expressing ambitions to design and write films. His exact words to me were: “There is no future in games.” When he said this, I laughed. It...
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Do you ever wonder why fantastic games don’t always get their due reward? How despite beautiful graphics, rich content and hours of play they never get the limelight? It all comes down to a little something some call Bushnell’s Law. The idea that a game should be “easy to...
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The role-playing game, or RPG, is one of the oldest genres in gaming, being inspired by tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons. RPGs also happens to be one of my favorite genres. I recently made a list of my top ten games of all-time, and six out of the ten...
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Outlast II, a horror game developed by Red Barrels Studios, hit the scene a few weeks ago. Much like its’ predecessor, it came out both to raving reviews and scathing criticism. I am afraid this piece is one of the latter. I’m here today to take a critical look...
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As a child, creating video games seemed like something very very difficult, far from the reach of the layman – something that would take decades of practice, lots of money, and lots of luck. And certainly, creating a good game still takes extraordinary skill not only from one person...
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The following article is intended as a general rebuttal of Polygon’s recent opinion piece on Steam. It is largely intended to address the underlying assumption that companies are designed for anything other than the maximization of profits, as well as addressing within the flow of the article a few...
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‘Gamer’ is a word with a tonne of stigma nipping at its heels. I often wonder if my own mother would rather I was addicted to drugs than games. The common complaint I hear is that gaming and gaming culture breeds antisocial behaviours. After all, how will you have...
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We live in a golden age of gaming. An age where the biggest game releases have scarcely believable graphics, huge lived in worlds, countless NPCs and gameplay systems that combine to spoil and engulf even the most casual of gamers. A lot of resources go into building these huge...
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I like to say this not just to anger art students, professors, and parents alike, but because I really honestly believe it is true: video games can be a form of literature, and in fact may be the final frontier of literature. I want gamers to know that it’s...
My father was not happy to hear that I wanted to be a game developer. Yet he’d never had an issue with me expressing ambitions to design and write films. His exact words to me were: “There is no future in games.” When he said this, I laughed. It...
Do you ever wonder why fantastic games don’t always get their due reward? How despite beautiful graphics, rich content and hours of play they never get the limelight? It all comes down to a little something some call Bushnell’s Law. The idea that a game should be “easy to...
The role-playing game, or RPG, is one of the oldest genres in gaming, being inspired by tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons. RPGs also happens to be one of my favorite genres. I recently made a list of my top ten games of all-time, and six out of the ten...
Outlast II, a horror game developed by Red Barrels Studios, hit the scene a few weeks ago. Much like its’ predecessor, it came out both to raving reviews and scathing criticism. I am afraid this piece is one of the latter. I’m here today to take a critical look...
As a child, creating video games seemed like something very very difficult, far from the reach of the layman – something that would take decades of practice, lots of money, and lots of luck. And certainly, creating a good game still takes extraordinary skill not only from one person...
The following article is intended as a general rebuttal of Polygon’s recent opinion piece on Steam. It is largely intended to address the underlying assumption that companies are designed for anything other than the maximization of profits, as well as addressing within the flow of the article a few...
‘Gamer’ is a word with a tonne of stigma nipping at its heels. I often wonder if my own mother would rather I was addicted to drugs than games. The common complaint I hear is that gaming and gaming culture breeds antisocial behaviours. After all, how will you have...
We live in a golden age of gaming. An age where the biggest game releases have scarcely believable graphics, huge lived in worlds, countless NPCs and gameplay systems that combine to spoil and engulf even the most casual of gamers. A lot of resources go into building these huge...
I like to say this not just to anger art students, professors, and parents alike, but because I really honestly believe it is true: video games can be a form of literature, and in fact may be the final frontier of literature. I want gamers to know that it’s...
