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Game industry people are always making statements. Sometimes, those remarks come back to bite them. 1up has a feature called “Talking Heads”, in which they review embarrassing quotes of the decade.
For some reason, it’s been a very busy day for news. Can’t imagine what would cause this mid-week surge. Knowing how busy everyone is these days, though, I’ve waded through the newbits and chosen just a few.
You wonder about that title. Ah, we have a treat in store. Over at Man Bytes Blog, this month’s Roundtable is about literature as games. Specifically, what if a piece of literature had been done as a game, rather than as something written? What, indeed? Read on!
Over at gamesradar, they’ve posted a list of “101 Things We’ve Learned from Video Games”. While it’s aimed more at the consoles, we can find a few that apply universally. For instance:
Over at the Insult Swordfighting blog, Mitch Krpata relates his experience with a game whose visuals and attention to detail blows away all the others.
Yes, work out the storyline for the next installment of Bard’s Ultimate Magic Pool Of Wizardry! Anyone can do it; just replace the stuff in parentheses with anything appropriate to create the plot.
Not too long ago, the Independent Gaming Source website held a competition for its members. The idea was to use something called the “Video Game Name Generator” to create a title, then make the actual game.
You may recall that awhile back, joystiq was cornering adventure designers at the Game Developers Conference and giving them an “adventure-style puzzle” to solve. I posted about Ron Gilbert’s solution (Ron Gilbert & The Bear), but the one by Tim Schaefer really takes the prize. Read it for yourself and see (besides, I wanted to break up all those A5 posts ;).
Tim Schaefer & The Bear on joystiq