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The Dream Machine – Chapter 3

mazai — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:44:45 +0000

What is The Dream Machine, you ask? Anders Gustafsson puts it simply:

The Dream Machine is a Point & Click adventure game made out of materials like clay and cardboard. You play as Victor and Alicia, a couple who’ve just moved into a new apartment. While trying to get settled in, they soon discover that all is not as it seems in the quiet, unassuming apartment building…
In order to differentiate it from most other games out there we decided to steer as far away from all things polygonal/vectoral, and are actually building all the environments, props and characters out of materials like clay and cardboard.

Here’s the trailer:

And the (awesome) bonus part:

Anders Gustafsson: This is what it actually looks like when we construct the sets for the game (except there’s usually more coffee cups on the table).

The Dream Machine, by Anders Gustafsson and Erik Zaring (Cockroach Inc.)

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Chris Avellone – Developing Expectations

Dominus — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:00:56 +0000

In the first part of this podcast, Chris Avellone discusses Planescape: Torment, Fallout: New Vegas, and player expectations in RPGs.

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Blade Symphony – A Source Mod

legab — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:48:48 +0000

Blade Symphony

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Hunting Arrows

littlebugger — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:44:10 +0000

Hunting Arrows

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Ben Cousins on Paying to Win

littlebugger — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:43:41 +0000

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…

Ben Cousins – Paying to Win

Make sure you can see the notes in the ppt, it makes everything much clearer.

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Video game history with Tim Schafer

Dominus — Thu, 19 May 2011 11:58:48 +0000

Video game history with Tim Schafer

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Craig Adams talks Sword & Sworcery EP

Dominus — Sat, 07 May 2011 09:14:42 +0000

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!

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History of Volition

Dominus — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:03:54 +0000

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)

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GDC 2011 Lectures

Dominus — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:41:03 +0000

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.

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