A blog about game design and development -- and mostly on online/web and community-driven games.
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 that the guy who once wrote this went on to work on the game that would have the most incredible crate ever, worthy of official merchandising.
Hey, my name is Marek Bronstring and I'm a game designer. I most recently worked at NCsoft Europe. I'm interested in many kinds of games but have worked mostly on online games, so that's what I tend to write about. My top 3 favorite animals: 1) meerkats 2) mimic octopuses 3) undecided.
Excellent gaming podcast hosted by some of my friends in the US. I co-host the occasional UK edition with James Spafford.
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!
I just found the original companion cube! Right there in the crate review!
see for yourself: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/images/jediknight_5seconds_with_map.jpg
ysbreker
October 22nd, 2007
Ha, what a wonderful observation. I hadn’t thought of the start-to-crate/companion cube connection
Steve
October 23rd, 2007