For the past couple of weeks I’ve been showing a preview version of The Witness to various folks in the press who were interested. Typically I just have them sit down and play for a couple of hours, from the beginning, with no guidance from me; afterward, we talk about …
I’ve been trying to refine the trees to look better, and I’m fairly happy with the results so far. All too often, game trees are using many tricks to make em look good. Because of that, the geometry often looks like a mess (unless it’s really high poly). One thing …
Now, for the social game developers out there – let me help. You know that bad feeling you have in your stomach? …
This talk is called Games and the Human Condition; it was given at Rice University on September 27, 2010. It’s about “best practices” of modern game design that I find unsettling, and the way in which “social games” and “gamification” are destructive. A full video is available from this page …
Why can’t video games give me a powerful, high-density experience, so that after 3 hours I am satisfied, I feel like I have had enough? Wouldn’t that be cool? A movie can give you a satisfying experience in 2 hours. A painting or a sculpture can give you a satisfying …
The Chaparral High School Alumni Theatre’s production of Braid: A Movement Piece during the summer of 2010. Using a unique combination of content movement and contact improvisation dance techniques, Braid follows the story of young scientist Tim on his quest to find a Princess.
Ignacio has implemented the first version of the handling for light sources that change (doors that open or close, lights that can be switched on or off, etc). The idea is that we just precompute different lightmaps for each of these cases and blend between them at runtime. In the …