Ben Cousins, former general manager of Easy EA (the division that spearheaded F2P games) gets down and dirty with a very controversial subject: how would players react if a competitive game would start selling “performance influencing” items?
It would fail, you say, just like Battlefield Heroes (the main focus of this presentation) did, right? Well, you might be surprised…
Make sure you can see the notes in the ppt, it makes everything much clearer.
Craig Adams, creator of iPad/iPhone game Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery joins Dan Benjamin in this podcast to talk about creating the amazing game, the importance of crafting user experience, impossible transitions, and “pretending long enough” to be successful. A lot of talk about the making of the game!
Game Informer have put up an hour long documentary on the history of Volition, the developers that got their start making Descent, and then went on to make Freespace 1 & 2, Red Faction and its sequels, and most recently the Saints Row games. (via)
The GDC Vault service has debuted both free and subscriber-only video, audio and slides from this month’s 25th Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, including free Doom, Populous and Out Of This/Another World postmortem videos.
more stuff here!
Conference opening by Game Developers’ Association of Australia President, Tom Crago, followed by international keynote speaker, Tim Stellmach.
Tim Stellmach is now Design Director at Vicarious Visions, the New York-based developers of the new action-RPG Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. He is an 18-year veteran of the games industry, and a principal designer of such acclaimed titles as Thief and System Shock. Tim has also worked on games as diverse as Ultima Underworld, Deus Ex and Guitar Hero.
Todd Howard (Skyrim’s director) gives Gameinformer.com a full tour of their new office at Bethesda Game Studios.
This is an audio-cassette (44m) included with the Special Edition of “Ultima VI: The False Prophet” and features Richard Garriot talking about the history of Ultima series. Very rare cool stuff that worth preserving! This is what I love about UG, people who care enough about the games to come up with stuff like this which would be lost otherwise.
Ultima VI Audio Cassette – Side A
