A blog about game design and development & randomness.
How is it that Valve can imbue a game with more personality than other games could ever hope to dream of USING ONLY A COMPUTER VOICE AND A STEEL BOX WITH A LITTLE HEART ON IT?! Does that mean Valve is amazing, or just that everything else is depressingly bad? Maybe both.
It’s ironic and awesome [...]
The Orange Box is delicious. And Portal is the best part. It’s funny, it’s smart, and it’s just the right length. I think it took a lot of people by surprise.
It’s interesting how Portal is piggy-backing Half-Life 2: Episode 2 in more or less the same way Counter-Strike did with Half-Life. It’s clever marketing. Would [...]
We must have many games, for baby Jesus has his birthday soon! But Orange Box, BioShock, Mass Effect, Zelda DS, Zack & Wiki, Metroid Prime 3, Super Smash Brothers, the new Phoenix Wright, Sam & Max Season 2, Super Mario Galaxy, Assassin’s Creed, and hey even The Simpons Game, all attacking at once? That’s cruel.
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My name is Marek Bronstring and I'm Head of Content at Sega. You're looking at my mostly dead game design blog. I think this sidebar needs some more text so let me tell you what my top favorite animals are: 1) meerkats 2) mimic octopuses 3) miniature horses (particularly when used as assistance animals).
Excellent gaming podcast hosted by some friends in the US.
