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Study finds 55 percent of newspaper stories are placed

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:53:44 +0000

Study finds 55 percent of newspaper stories are placed:

LOL journalists.

GameBreakr interview

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:53:42 +0000

The problem with facebook games is not that they are not games or bad games. It can be summed up simply by pointing out who is paying for the game.

The person paying for the game will, by their actions, control what product is created for them.

In this case, the freeloaders, although outnumbering these customers are not in fact the customers, the freeloaders are the bait that create the customers.

With that in mind you can see a fairly simple future for these games as they increasingly pander to the paying customer at the expense of the freeloaders.

Perfectly reasonable business acts which guarantee that the games, rather than getting better from this point on are in fact, right now, at their apex and instead will degrade into worse and worse as it becomes increasingly understood exactly what the people paying actually want…

Top tip, when looking at the games industry always assume that it is downhill from here, you will never be wrong. Any uphill step you witness will be followed shortly by the developer filling for bankruptcy.

Need I point out that we live in a world where evony not only exists but also outperforms other similar games of much higher quality and lower price?

Best Of GDC 2010 - #5: Jenova Chen's HeavenVille Wins Game Design Challenge

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:56:58 +0000

Best Of GDC 2010 - #5: Jenova Chen's HeavenVille Wins Game Design Challenge:

I often think that faggots who call themselves game designers don’t really have much of a clue about anything…

C.O.R.E. Digital Shut Down This Afternoon

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:56:56 +0000

C.O.R.E. Digital Shut Down This Afternoon:

The film industry is NOT something for the games industry to look up to, anyone who thinks this to be true, is a moron.

Copying the film industry is not the step forward that games journalists believe it to be, except maybe for them…

It occures to me that the word ville has been like totally owned...

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:18:32 +0000

It occures to me that the word ville has been like totally owned by crappy facebook games.

To the point that if you happen to call something ville, or even wet ville, which we did, it would be natural to assume that this is in some way related to this growth.

It isnt.

It’s a reference to Alphaville the 1965 film, the reasoning is that in my experience virtual worlds have the exact same disconnect between what is said and what happens on the screen as this film.

Picture a couple of orcs in world of warcraft discussing the mundane world whilst standing in a vast fantasy one.

Kinda the opposite of alphaville but you get the idea.

hence

http://ville.4lfa.com/

is in no way facebook related…

The Disappearing Cartoon

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:37:41 +0000

The Disappearing Cartoon:

Parallels between film and games are interesting, no?

This is a western fixation, with looking real rather than looking good. It always seems strange that people are so keen to make something look “real” rather than explorer the nameless other possibilities.

Art games do not help this issue since although they do look strange, they are also shit. Which just turns more people off.

I practise guerilla ontology to help combat this, what do you do?

GDC10: Justin Hall, Fate of a Social Games Company

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:04:23 +0000

GDC10: Justin Hall, Fate of a Social Games Company:

Springtime for Hitler and Germany…

UPDATED: All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:45:10 +0000

UPDATED: All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement | Electronic Frontier Foundation:

You do understand that if you are a developer and you are chasing after golden apples by agreeing to this shit.

That you are part of the problem, right?

Don’t get me wrong, I understand that it’s often necessary to do many disgusting things to stay alive, but still…

Is the news that some flash game has been ported to the iphone really good news? Really a great step forward for the developer?

I don’t think so.

Technically this is agreement is par for the course with any console development, if it was only games on the iphone this wouldn’t even be reported on.

What if a company dropped their API and no-one noticed

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:11:44 +0000

What if a company dropped their API and no-one noticed:

Behold, the future of facebook…

GameSetLinks: From The Alpha To The Omikron

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:11:43 +0000

GameSetLinks: From The Alpha To The Omikron:

There is blurring in roles between games journalist and games publisher.

When the entity selling you games is the same entity allegedly criticising them, what then?

Notice this article links to a eurogamer piece on omikron, that page is mostly taken up by adverts pimping eurogamers new games publishing division. http://www.getgamesgo.com/ Advertised with reviews from eurogamer.

Respect?

Games journalists jumped the shark a long time ago and you do not get to fill two generally adversary roles.

When will journalists come to terms with the reality that they are the enemy of the developer?

The Psychology Of Games: The Glitcher's Dilemma

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:46:03 +0000

The Psychology Of Games: The Glitcher's Dilemma:

I don’t know who the nuovo faggot Jamie Madigan is and frankly I don’t care, I suspect they have been “educated”. But I take great offence to the offhand remark.

“Some researchers with way too much time on their hands even organized tournaments where people were invited to write computer programs to play iterated prisoner dilemma games,”

Remind me again why nuovo faggot journalists deserve any respect from games developers?

I suspect it is considered wasted because it involves programming rather than writing.

The result of such wasted time is for instance an understanding that forgiveness is actually the “best” strategy. Essentially a don’t attack first, retaliate but forgive easily.

So we work in an industry that is based on games, games have within them the hard fucking maths that forgiveness is a good idea. Not just some hippy ideal.

Let me recap, games, teach forgiveness and Jamie Madigan is a nuovo faggot.

Ever wondered what was wrong with Elite from a publishers perspective?

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:30:06 +0000

Ever wondered what was wrong with Elite from a publishers perspective?:

“‘The game needs three lives, it needs to play through in no more than about 10 minutes, users will not be prepared to play for night after night to get anywhere, people won’t understand the trading, they don’t understand 3D, the technology’s all very impressive but it’s not very colourful’.”

Lost Garden: Three False Constraints

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:47:21 +0000

Lost Garden: Three False Constraints:

Fullbright: The middle child at peace

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:47:20 +0000

Fullbright: The middle child at peace:

Opinion: In Defense Of That Recent Anti-Indie Column

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:47:18 +0000

Opinion: In Defense Of That Recent Anti-Indie Column:

Blah blah blah

We win.

Because you talk about us and that’s all we care about, we are indiegamers against games.

The Newbie Hose Continues to Spurt

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:47:17 +0000

The Newbie Hose Continues to Spurt:

“Eric: It only works because they have an infinite newbie hose. Once the hose breaks, it will all fall apart.”

Scale fixes everything.

From a business perspective anyway.

However achieving “success” without scale is a much more interesting thing to do…

Personally I think scale is the problem not the solution.

Facebook Login is Hard: Welcome to Idiocracy

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:47:16 +0000

Facebook Login is Hard: Welcome to Idiocracy:

Only “Bob” can save us now.

Shouldn’t you be selling them a link to the old facebook?

Only $9.99, click here to restore the old facebook look.

When will HUMAN creativity catch up with technology?

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:47:11 +0000

When will HUMAN creativity catch up with technology?:

Guess what, it had nothing to do with film looking better.

Instead film was just an expensive option, therefore those who used film where in the privileged minority.

By being in this privileged minority your work was of course more important. Content is unimportant in the world of media after all.

Same reason why console games are better than flash games.

Isaac Part 1 of I don’t know how many

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:47:06 +0000

Isaac Part 1 of I don’t know how many:

So strange to hear stories of isaac asimov being banned from reading brain rotting science fiction as a kid.

The future, such as it is, is still so young.

It’s barely a handful of generations since steam was the best tech in the world.

My only hope is that one day the burning of hippies will be seen as the best renewable energy solution.

The Making Of Manic Miner | NowGamer

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:47:01 +0000

The Making Of Manic Miner | NowGamer:

Matthew Smith, someone I don’t know who made games a long long time ago reminds me of Bernie Drummond, someone I do know who made games a long long time ago.

Anyway this interview is amusing because he is a crazy fucker.