It is the thing that calls into question all of the assumptions we've
made about game development for this entire generation - even making Will Wright's statements about player creativity and proceduralism, and the «second processor» and sharing, ranking, rating - seem a bit off the mark.
Together with my friend Michael Kuzmin I'm hosting a podcast named How Games are
Made about game development.
Not exact matches
The confederates were trained to
make the study participants feel excluded by talking
about stereotypically masculine topics (sports, video
games and a class in business statistics) or stereotypically feminine topics (shopping, yoga and Pilates, and a class in child
development) and by subtly excluding the participants from the conversations.
«Our report is a call to the
game development community
about where they might focus next to
make educational
games even more useful.»
High school students from the suburb of Delta go to the Decision Theatre to play a
game where they
make decisions
about land
development and power use.
Development studio Milky Tea is home to employees who were involved in Project Gotham Racing, Blur, Bang Bang Racing and Drive Club,
making it easy to assume that they know a thing or two
about racing
games.
Judging from the comments
made by Cory, the
game still seems to be in active
development and should hopefully get a release date announcement once the developers are sure
about it.
It talks
about how the team was
made up of a lot of people who hadn't
made a 2D Mario
game before, how this
game started getting developed after NSMB U was in
development, and where some of the ideas came from.
Code Vein, the third person
game currently in
development for PC and consoles by the God Eater team, is shaping up to become the «anime» Dark Souls, and it seems like the team is thinking
about adding features that will
make the
game feel even close to the popular series developed by From Software.
Previously, Jaffe has lied
about development of new Twisted Metal
game (In 2010, Jaffe admitted to lie
about new TM
game development because he wanted to
make announcement a surprise), who knows he might be repeating the same strategy once again.
Today, during a presentation at CEDEC 2016 (with highlights translated by Gematsu), Yuji Horii talked a bit
about the
development of the
game, and what he said
makes it clear the
game is nowhere near finished.
There have been quite a few rumors
about Emma Stone playing a part in Hideo Kojima's upcoming
game Death Stranding, and a new
development has
made things more interesting.
For more details
about codes for Kickstarter backers, as well as
development status for what's left for the
game,
make sure to check out this Kickstarter update!
It might be a while before work on the next
game begins, however, as «thinking
about it right now
makes me want to stab myself in the stomach as hard as I can,» explains McMillen after 18 - months of
development on Super Meat Boy.
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Gearbox tends to wait until later in a project's
development cycle to
make an announcement
about a
game.
starting with «DMG» — Sharp was approached to manufacture the screens of the DMG because it already supplied the
Game & Watch displays — Sharp was unable to produce the screens at a price low enough for Nintendo so that
development of the console reached a dead point — R&D 1 learned
about the «Chip on Glass» technique which would
make a cheap production possible and approached TV maker Citizen to produce the
Game Boy's screens using this technique — in the end, Sharp was also able to use the CoG technique and was thus chosen to produce the screens and
made a four billion yen investment for that — the screens Sharp produced at the beginning were of a wrong type and were next to useless for the
Game Boy project — Yokoi remembers Hiroshi Yamauchi's reaction on
Game Boy prototype with wrong screen type: «What the hell is this?
Game engines are tools to make game development cheaper and faster, but that's about
Game engines are tools to
make game development cheaper and faster, but that's about
game development cheaper and faster, but that's
about it.
- despite the new business partnership with Cygames, Nintendo is very satisfied with its mobile business - they are also happy with the various projects created in partnership with DeNA, and their relationship will continue - Nintendo is trying to expand its lineup of mobile
games - Cygames had a plan for a title that was very deep and Nintendo thought it was important to develop and operate it jointly - DeNA doesn't just support Nintendo's mobile applications, but also its Nintendo Account system with tech and dev support - those areas of Nintendo's partnership will also continue - Nintendo is open to partner with other companies as well in the future - by using Nintendo IP in mobile apps, the company wants to spread awareness
about Nintendo's characters - ultimately they'd like it to become synergistic with the console business - Nintendo wants to
make mobile
games one of the pillars of revenue - it's not enough to just expand dedicated internal
development resources for this goal - this is why Nintendo is looking for possibilities to do it externally as well - Nintendo thought that Cygames» plan with Dragalia Lost was common ground for the companies, so they decided to partner - one important factor to think
about when managing a company like Nintendo is that its products aren't daily necessities - Nintendo creates entertainment and fun, and the essence of its business will remain unchanged - Nintendo says it's a high - risk business, and there are times in which performance could be good or bad - Nintendo will continue to create specialized gaming hardware and software for the world - the aim is to be successful every time, but sometimes it will work out, and sometimes it won't - instead of thinking «I can't do this» they'd rather think «what can we do to continuously tighten our relationship with the customers?»
We've earlier talked
about how the low dollar
makes game development difficult for developers outside of the US.
- because people from all around the world have been enjoying the
game since launch, the
game has won many awards - the
development team is pretty pleased to see so many people enjoying the
game - the Master Cycle Zero is something Aonuma has been thinking
about for a long time - the 4 Champions all have a pretty reliable «companion» in the Divine Beasts, but Link had nothing - this is how the idea of the Master Cycle Zero came to be - the Master Cycle Zero is capable of jumping, climbing up rocky slopes, and more - it requires fuel, but you can use the same ingredients as regular cooking - even if you go at full speed, you can
make some pretty sharp turns
Works with
game designers, engineers and artists to help
make the design vision come to life; helps balance and tune the
game play mechanics to suit the target audience and age Maintains the vision and ideals of Retro's software products Maintains constant communication
about development status with the Design Supervisor, Creative Director, and other Design Staff Remains current with competitor's products to ensure the best quality product from Retro's
development team Develops concepts, writes treatments, flow charts and
game scripts Participates in developing prototypes Performs
game design revisions to achieve highest quality Helps bring the creative vision and technical specifications for assigned video
games
You can read more
about all the details of his
development pipeline on his blog / site, but I will try to get into some basics
about the
game, what it is
about, and how it is being
made.
Usually I don't think
about how well a
game is
made, but rather just whether or not I'm having fun, but this
game should be a course in
game development school.
While there have been constantly conflicting reports
about the current state of The Last Guardian since the
game has been through more circles of
development hell that we can practically
make a modern day version of Dante's Divine Comedy — Inferno.
In
development for
about a year, the indie sensation has
made fans all across the board, with The Escapist calling the preview trailer «quite simply amazing,» PC
Gamer praising it as «insanely beautiful,» and IGN stating that the
game has «visuals to challenge the very best
games on the market.»
For those of you who missed our previous article
about this
game, Record of Agarest War is a tactical - style RPG which was originally a collaborative effort between a couple of different
game development studios back when Record of Agarest War was originally
made.
Knowing what little i did going in
about the
games troubled
development made that feet even more impressive.
Is it all
about making PC
games development tie in more closely with Xbox One and PlayStation 4?
The problem was, while we knew how to
make arcade
games, we didn't really know anything
about console
development.
What
Games Are is
about game design,
game development,
games as art, craft, culture and industry and how you can
make better
games, written by Tadhg Kelly.
So let's encourage women to get fired up
about game development, but the wrong way to start that is with a feminist agenda - they should
make great
games out of a passion for entertainment and story telling, not politics.
«One of the goals of the documentary we're
making [
about Broken Age's
development] is to show actual
game development and show that developers are human beings.
War Thunder is currently in
development for the PC and PS4, but Gaijin Entertainment's Pavel Kulikov has spoken out
about Microsoft's requirement for Free - to - Play
games on the Xbox consoles and why the
game will not
make its way on the Xbox One.
- there is a town called Samahdi located in the desert -
about 20 towns in the
game (villages, towns, and castles)- before
development began, the team went to Machu Picchu for inspiration - features some monsters called «Incarnations of Time», which you'll frequently encounter throughout your adventure - Restricted Play allows you to set various restrictions in order to
make the
game more challenging - one example shown
made it so the player couldn't ever purchase items from shops
- Link doesn't have much of a character in this
game - they wanted players to relate to Link and play as themselves - Link's face doesn't have much expression in this
game, and that was done on purpose - for Zelda
games, the devs always try to
make the player feel like Link - that was pushed even moreso for this entry - everytime a Zelda releases, Aonuma watches fan feedback and considers that for the future - the items Link uses to solve are always going to be important - regardless of the tech that Nintendo provides, exploration in the series is important - Link's growth through who he meets is also an important element of the franchise - Aonuma thought
about Zelda freedom when considering Breath of the Wild, and was brought back to the days of the original Zelda - this was a big point of inspiration for Breath of the Wild - with Ocarina of Time 3D, Nintendo wanted to really utilize the 3D and had a desire to let players enjoy Ocarina of Time outside - the goal with A Link to the Past was creating more depth - Aonuma used to think that getting lost in a 3D world wasn't okay - this lead Aonuma to putting in tons of hints and guiding players - he has since changed that idea and convinced himself that it's okay to get lost - the first two years of
development the devs created a
game where just running around was fun - climbing is very important, because players can climb high and see destinations they want to visit - you can place your own markers to decide where you want to go - when the devs create a Zelda title, they consider not using the name Link - since they don't have anything else to go with, they choose Link - the name Link doesn't hold much value, since the player is the one creating the journey - when Nintendo first created Link, they wanted a character that is literally the link between people - that is why his name is Link - to think that the Zelda series has been around so long that there are all sorts of urban legends and myths
makes Miyamoto really happy
- E3 2014 video was running in real time and in - engine - the scene shown was
made especially for the trailer - the scene with Link shooting arrows at the Guardian on his horse, jumping off, and firing off one last arrow in mid-air at the enemy in slow motion, was a gameplay element that hadn't yet been implemented - Aonuma «really wanted to put that in the
game» and
made this happen as
development went on - the team expanded on the
game's story as well, which was brought
about from the E3 2014 trailer
With a few exceptions, the company I work at (A
development company with a lot of workers in a wide swath of ages and gaming
make up with approximately 120 employees) couldn't care less because it's just a gaming machine, and most of us prefer good
games, and we tend to get into that when speaking
about consoles.
I could take or leave the shifts in gameplay to
make this more like the loot - grind RPG - likes that dominate blockbuster
game development now, but when Ubisoft is playing so beautifully within a fascinating period of history, all I care
about is how utterly engrossed I am with the storytelling.
We talk
about how Caelyn got into
game development and what kinds of
games she
makes as well as Valve's reluctance to comment on or gatekeep Steam Greenlight.
Even more impressive is how the plot actually
makes you care
about these characters; unlike the intro / outro clipshows most fighting
games have to offer, MKX's story bothers to include things like character
development and heartfelt moments in between all the ridiculous action.
This week, we look at the closure of LucasArts and wonder if this is actually the best thing that could have happened to the ailing studio; we discuss the controversial breakthrough video
games made with two composers reaching the top five in Classic FM's Hall of Fame; we applaud id Software's decision to restart Doom 4's
development after not being happy with the current project; we chat briefly
about the ASA involvement with the Aliens fiasco; and we breeze through this week's next - gen tidbits, including Adam Orth's naive remarks
about always - online hardware.
I am thinking
about working on a playable demo but that would be a little further into the
development process hopefully when I have
made the first trailer for the
game.
The event had different shows and speakers, who talked
about technical aspects of video
game making and
about different experiences of working in a video
game development studio!
The Lab is the creative core of the NVA, it's all
about game -
making,
game experiments and
games in
development.
If you listen to us talk
about development environments and
game making on our podcast, Unity always comes up as the current king when it comes to ease of use, accessibility, and flexibility.
Whilst this is excellent news, it won't stop small developers from worrying how the long approval process will affect them in an industry where
making mobile
games is all
about getting the app on the store as quickly as possible and using the profits to start
development on the next project.
Nintendo were one of the first companies to talk
about this strategy publicly back in 2013 and how they wanted to create one software ecosystem that could work across multiple hardware devices, essentially meaning that software
development would be
made easier and everyone would be able to experience the same
games no matter which Nintendo hardware they had.
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In this first post for
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about Videogames Tax Relief (VGTR), which can
make a major difference to your company's
games development budget.