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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!
History of Volition
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)
GDC 2011 Lectures
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!
Irrational Games history
Game Connect ’09: Tim Stellmach
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.
From Deus Ex to Mortal Kombat – even with the fresh innovation of Scribblenauts, our all-star panel takes their voices to PAX in this exclusive discussion only for GT. Warren Spector, Ed Boon and Jeremiah Slaczka discuss the past, present and future of video game design on Gametrailers.com
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
Matt Chat
Aren’t you sick of gamers and “experts” who know nothing of their gaming heritage? This channel is for retrogamers, game developers, and anyone else who appreciates great games from ALL eras and ALL platforms. Each week, I look at another masterpiece, its inspirations, and its legacy.
Our suggestion is to go Matt Chat’s Youtube channel and subscribe. There are way too many interesting videos on Matt’s channel to post them all here, but still here are just a few recommendations from us:
- Matt Chat 62: Chris Avellone’s Early Days
- Matt Chat 63: Planescape Torment with Chris Avellone
- Matt Chat 30: Fallout
- Matt Chat 66: Fallout with Tim Cain, Pt. 1
- Matt Chat 67: Fallout with Tim Cain Pt. 2
- Matt Chat 68: Arcanum and More
- Matt Chat 65: Syndicate with Sean Cooper
- Matt Chat 54: Quake with John Romero
- Matt Chat 44: Ralph Baer, the Father of Videogames
- Matt Chat 34: System Shock 2
- Matt Chat 17: Ultima VII, The Black Gate
Making Of Realms Of The Haunting
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