-gameboi on GGE

-Jordan

And by “reliable, quantifiable metrics” I mean being able to pinpoint e.g. what people like about a certain group of related games within a particular genre. We all know many mainstream publishers need to diversify and take on much more “risky” game designs. I think were they (the publishers in question) able to get this kind of information, from somewhere like The GGE, it could really help move things along.

I’m also pleased to read that The GGE is intended to be a gaming wiki as well as a social networking site, something which I thought it had the greatest potential for. I’m a little uneasy about the file hosting aspect though; this isn’t particularly cheap - even today - and may raise their operating costs significantly. Still, if they could get behind something distributed, like BitTorrent, that would slash the on-going cost by a massive amount.

Hmm, I’m going to look for The GGE’s suggestions box methinks…

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Another excellent post, Marek, as always — you’re putting the rest of us Thumb bloggers truly to shame. And please don’t concern yourself with finding a definite pigeon hole for gameslol; you’re spanning both ‘game developer’ and ‘games journalist’ categories very well. Having the mix actually makes gameslol better in my opinion, too.